Devices & Usage

Students at St Leonard’s College are expected to use their devices effectively in class.

All devices are subject to the Student Electronic Device Code of Conduct:

  1. Follow all teacher directions including when to use the device.
  2. Access only the information related to the learning task.
  3. Have your device fully charged at the start of every school day.
  4. Have the volume of devices muted at the beginning of each lesson.
  5. Inform the teacher or others when using the camera and audio recording functions.
  6. Ensure that your device is password locked.
  7. Seek your teacher’s permission before sending any form of electronic messaging in class.
  8. Ensure that audio, photos and video recorded at school are not uploaded, broadcast or transferred without a teacher’s permission.
  9. Only use headphones at the discretion of the teacher when they are used to support learning.
  10. Only use your personal device yourself, hence, not loan your device to another student.
  11. Transport and store your device in a safe and secure manner when not in use, ensuring devices are in a sturdy and robust cover or sleeve at all times.
  12. If you are a year 5/6 or Middle School student, keep your device locked in your locker at recess and lunch time unless participating in a supervised learning activity.
  13. Keep mobile phones silent and invisible during the school day.
  14. Be bound by all conditions in the St Leonard’s College agreed standards for student use of technology.

Breaches of the Code of Conduct may result in your device being confiscated by teachers until the end of the lesson or for more serious breaches; the device will be held for longer.

Expectations for Use of Student Mobile Phones

The following is an extract from the College Behaviour Policy.

Mobile Phones

  • ELC to Year 4: students should keep their phones in their lockers or leave with the class teacher.
  • Years 5 to 12: students should securely store mobile phones in their lockers from 8.25am – 3.35pm; phones should not be carried by any student during these times.
  • Mobile phones are not permitted to be used on school grounds during class, as well as in break times such as recess, lunch and study periods.
  • Mobile phones may be checked briefly in break times by students, while at their lockers.
  • Mobile phones taken to class or seen during the day by a teacher will be taken by the relevant teacher and given to the student’s Head of Year (or Head of 5/6 for those students) who will return it to the student after an appropriate conversation.
  • Repeated instances of inappropriate mobile phone use will lead to further consequences to be determined by the relevant Head of Year, such as parent involvement and/or extended periods of leaving the phone with the Head of Year during the day.
  • Mobile phones cannot be taken into formal assessment situations.
  • Exceptions to these guidelines may be made by the Head of Year for extreme family circumstances.