Digital Health, Resilience and Skills

Our Commitment

We are committed to transforming learning and teaching by using innovative technology. The iPad and our suite of digital learning tools remain central to the JCG learning experience. This Digital Health, Resilience and Skills approach aims to create a balanced and intentionally designed digital ecosystem within the school day – one that maximises the benefits of technology for learning whilst prioritising the digital health and overall wellbeing of our students.

Our Vision

On leaving JCG, we aspire for every student to possess healthy digital habits, safe online behaviours, digital resilience and advanced digital skills, empowering them to thrive in a dynamic, technology-driven world. This approach outlines how our educational provision seeks to fulfil this vision. The four strands to achieve our vision are:

Digital Health, Resilience & Skills Curriculum
Digital Tools & Policy
Staff Support, Learning & Development
Parental Support & Engagement

Digital Health, Resilience & Skills Curriculum

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Foster healthy digital habits and resilience to navigate online challenges while safeguarding mental health.
Empower students to develop the resilience needed to overcome setbacks in the digital world.
Equip students with essential digital skills for academic success, future careers, and responsible online engagement.

How

Digital health, digital resilience and digital skills are integrated across the curriculum, ensuring every student receives a consistent and age-appropriate education.

a. Year 7 Weekly Digital Literacy lesson

Digital Skills - How to use digital devices effectively for learning.
Digital Health and Resilience - Exploring the impact of social media and attention economy, and how students can protect themselves from tech addiction, digital stress, sleep deprivation, eye strain, fake news and radicalisation.
Digital Revision Skills - Developing effective revision techniques, responding to feedback and an introduction to using AI responsibly.

b. Key Stage 3 Computer Science curriculum

Digital Health and Resilience – Impact of Technology.
Digital skills – IT and programming.

c. PSHE Programme

All Key Stage 3 students have a weekly PSHE lesson in which they learn about a range of age-appropriate digital health and well-being issues.
The Key Stage 4 PSHE programme is delivered through off-timetable workshops.
The programme consists of 35 age-appropriate workshops covering essential topics including safety and wellbeing, fraud and scams, keeping your money safe, body image, pornography and writing your CV.

d. Tutor Programme, Assemblies and Guest Speaker Events

Throughout the academic year, digital health topics are interleaved into the tutor programme, whole College and year group assemblies.
Students in all year groups have the opportunity to hear from experts, either within scheduled curriculum time or events.

Digital Tools & Policy

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Promote a distraction free, safe and focused environment for learning, with clearly defined expectations where students learn and demonstrate positive digital behaviours.

How

a. Digital Tools

Reduce distraction and promote focus using Jamf School

We promote a distraction free and focused learning environment by ensuring that student iPads only have access to the apps required for learning during the school day.
To achieve this, we enrol iPads on a mobile device management platform - Jamf School. This platform hides all apps not required for learning from 0825 to 1525.
It is College policy that all new students have their iPad enrolled on Jamf School.
From September 2025, all students in Years 7 and 8 will have their device enrolled on Jamf.

Safeguarding : Filtering and Monitoring

All devices using the College Wi-Fi have filtered internet access, and access is blocked if students access inappropriate content or uncategorised websites, in accordance with our Acceptable Use Agreement.
Any searches indicating a wellbeing concern are detected and flagged to the Designated Safeguarding Lead or a deputy.
For more information, refer to our Safeguarding and Child Protection policy and Government of Jersey Safeguarding policy.

b. Tech Lockers

To minimise the interruption to learning caused by device low battery levels, we have installed small lockers in every classroom, all equipped with battery packs, plugs and charging cables.
Lockers in the Maths classrooms and Science laboratories also include digital pencils.

c. Policies - high expectations for using technology

Acceptable Use Agreement (AUA)

All staff and students sign an Acceptable Use Agreement (AUA) for appropriate use of Technology. Please click here to read and sign the student AUA.
To remind students of the expectations outlined in the AUA, student-friendly posters will be displayed throughout the College as helpful memories aids:

• Tech Etiquette – How to use your device in lessons

• Eleven Steps to Digital Wisdom– Steps to Promote Digital Health

Polityka Wspierania Zachowania Uczniów

Our Supporting Student Behaviour Policy states that if students who are not enrolled on Jamf school struggle to manage their device appropriately, we will require that their device be enrolled on the platform.
Bespoke App restrictions will be applied to support students’ focus on learning and healthy digital habits.

No Phones Seen approach

Phones are not required for learning and, during school hours (08:25 - 15:25), should be switched off and out of sight.
We strongly recommend that students in Year 7 do not have smartphone and, if a phone is required outside of school hours, parents consider a ‘dumb’ phone instead.
All students in Years 7 and 8 will switch off their phone and store it in their locker during the school day (0825- 1525).
For more information, please click here to read our No Phones Seen approach.

Staff Support, Learning & Development

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Support teaching and non-teaching staff in acquiring the digital skills needed to deliver a forward-thinking digital curriculum and manage student wellbeing effectively.

How

Strong faculty and peer support in using apps and AI tools for learning.
Highly skilled IT Team to offer classroom support or one to one training.
Comprehensive staff induction programme for new staff.
Use the Tech Etiquette to establish good classroom routines.
Regular digital safeguarding and cybersecurity updates.
Strategic programme for introduction to new digital tools for teaching, learning and administration

Parental Support & Engagement

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Empower parents and carers with the knowledge and tools they need to confidently support their daughters in navigating digital spaces safely and responsibly.

How

We recognise that students, driven by curiosity, may naturally push technology boundaries. Our goal is to provide parents and carers with practical digital tools and access to tech support, enabling them to set clear boundaries and establish effective family rules around technology use.

a. Practical Digital Tools

Jamf Parent App – allows parents/carers to remotely manage (via their smart phone) their daughter’s iPad use beyond the school day. With the app, parents/ carers can hide specific apps, set time limits on the app and, at bedtime hide all.
Lightspeed Parental Portal – the website application allows parents/carers to view internet history, pause internet access and block websites.
For more information on Jamf please click here.

b. Parent Tech Support Evenings Year 7 Parent Tech Hands-on Workshop

To assist parent and carers in setting up and using Jamf Parent app and Lightspeed Parent Portal.
How to use AI to help support their daughter’s learning. Parent Information Evenings
Year 8 information evening has a workshop format: one of the workshops focuses on tech support for parents.
There is an annual Year 9 parent presentation on online safety.
Digital safeguarding / technology for learning is frequently one of the items on our programmes for parent information evenings.
We run a parent workshop on how to setup restrictions on your child’s Smartphone For more information, please refer to our Parent Academy page.

c. IT Team support and FAQs

There may be times when you need some additional support in managing your child’s technology. Please use the following:

Check the College Website for our ‘Tech Support for Parents’ webpage and our FAQs section.
Contact the Head of School or our Assistant Headteacher for Digital learning with your additional support requirements.
We are also supported by an excellent IT Team who are always willing to assist.

d. Establish expectations in the home

We encourage/expect parents and carers to set up expectations and rules within the home, even if there are no current issues around the use of technology.
Please read our ‘Steps for Digital Peace at Home’ for tips on digital health at home.
Use the Jamf Parent app and Lightspeed Parent Portal to set app and internet restrictions.
Regularly review information on JCG website ‘Tech Support for Parents’ to be aware of latest app age restrictions or digital safeguarding news.
Refer to the Acceptable Use Agreement (AUA) and the Posters, Tech Etiquette and Eleven Steps to Digital Wisdom for additional support.