Chapel Hill State School

Technology

Welcome to Our World of Technology!

The students of Chapel Hill School embrace technology with a great deal of enthusiasm. They are keen to experiment with the many new skills and pathways in today's world of technology. Students begin to develop information technology competencies in pre-school, where they are exposed to a range of educational software and basic computer competencies in accordance with the school Information Technology Program.

Competency in information technology is essential to the success of our students at high school and in the workforce.

All computers are connected to the internet. Focused learning episodes build the student's knowledge and skills, while the program also allows for experimentation and incidental learning.

Students in Prep to 7 are linked to the internet and have e mail access. To email a class please go to the 'classes' page of this website and click on the icon - "contact the class".

Year One students working at their computers

Exit skills of year 7 students at Chapel Hill State School include:

. understanding and managing their own files and folders
. accessing student domain
. experimenting with different layout and design techniques
. professional publishing
. manipulating graphics
. drawing graphs and objects
. competent at researching using the internet
. understanding basic internet terminology
. working with images and text from internet into other documents
. creating and delivering PowerPoint presentations
. creating multimedia units of work using hyperlinks through
PowerPoint and FrontPage