Physical Education, Mobile Devices and ICT and e-safety

Physical education

The aim of the PE provision for the Sixth Form is to encourage physical fitness, and offer a range of activities which can be accessed by all.

Students participate each week in a range of sporting activities, led by PE staff and external coaches.

1st team practice for hockey in the Autumn term and netball in the Spring term take place from 1.00pm to 3.00pm on Tuesday and after school on Monday.

For more information, contact the Director of Sport, Miss Heidi Baber (h.baber@rhsb.gdst.net).

Mobile devices

Girls must take note of the following rules regarding mobile devices:

The school accepts no responsibility for loss or damage of mobile devices that are brought into school. If students do bring such devices we recommend that:

• They are locked away when not required and never left in an unattended bag

• They have a protective cover

• A passcode is enabled to prevent other students misusing the device

• Location services are enabled so that if it is lost, it may be tracked or disabled.

• Mobiles devices must be switched off during lessons, unless the teacher has given express permission for them to be used.

• Mobile devices should never be taken into a changing room or toilet.

• Mobile devices must never be taken into an examination room. Candidates found with phones during exams risk facing serious sanctions from the examination board.

• Pupils are not allowed to film or record (or share these recordings online) other girls or staff on their devices without gaining their permission first.

• Girls should not walk around while looking at their mobile screen, for their own safety.

• Any pupil found accessing websites with inappropriate content will be dealt with according to the Behaviour Policy.

ICT and e-safety

Internet access is an integral part of a dynamic learning environment. We have created ‘acceptable use’ guidelines to ensure safe, sensible and responsible usage to protect everyone in school.

Pupils must:

• Only use ICT (on our systems or their own devices) in school for school purposes. This includes the use of the internet, email, digital video, mobile technologies etc.).

• Login only as themselves.

• Respect the privacy and copyright of others’ material.

• Not download or install software on school ICT equipment without permission.

• Not post or try to access or download offensive, illegal or aggressive material.

• Not try to bypass the internet filtering system.

The following websites provide some useful information on e-safety for girls and parents:

ThinkuKnow - www.thinkuknow.co.uk

Provides information on how to keep you and your family safe online. Look particularly at the parents area of the website.

CEOP – The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre - www.ceoppoliceuk/safety-centre

Visit if you are concerned about something that has happened online and wish to report it.

Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) - www.iwf.org.uk

If you have found any material you believe to be illegal, you can report it on this site.

Students are also responsible for the ‘housekeeping’ in their network storage area and e-mail account. Students are reminded that storage space is not unlimited, so large files ought only to be kept if they are of immediate educational use.

Computer storage areas (and removable media) are treated like lockers; if staff have reason to suspect that the acceptable use policy has not been followed, then staff may review files and communications to look for such evidence. Students cannot expect files stored on servers or disks will always be private.

Students are encouraged to be economical in their use of resources.

Printing, internet time and network storage space all have a cost and students must not waste resources. Each student is allocated a printing ‘credit limit’ for the year. Inappropriate use of IT will be dealt with accordingly.