St Mary's girls are connected!

St Mary's is proud of the success we have had with laptops for learning in the classroom. All students coming into Year 7 are provided with a notebook computer and this powerful technology is integrated into learning across the curriculum. We invite you to spend some time exploring our experience, and to consider how St Mary's may serve your daughter's learning needs.

Why laptops for learning? 

• Laptop students spend more time engaged in collaborative work than Non-Laptop students
• Laptop students participate in more project-based instruction
• Laptops lead to more student writing and to writing of higher quality
• Laptops increase access to information and improve research and analysis skills
• Laptop students prepare more presentations than Non-Laptop students
• Teachers and students take on different roles when students have laptops
• Teachers become facilitators
• Teachers spend less time lecturing
• Students become collaborators
• Students direct their own learning
• Laptop students report a greater reliance on active learning strategies
  

Laptop students use computers to accomplish complex school tasks Laptop students readily engage in problem solving and critical thinking through Teachers attribute students' critical thinking skills and problem-solving proficiency to their use of laptops Teachers believe laptops benefit students' learning in general, but significant, ways Identifying information needs Locating information

• Applying higher order thinking skills
• Quality of work
• Interest in school
• Learning/understanding content

But who pays for it?

The parents rent the computer from the College for three years. This ammount appears on each of the three fee invoices each year. The computer comes insured and loaded with the most amazing range of software a student could ever need.