Kindergarten students given tablets for literacy

Woy Woy South Public School Kindergarten and Year 1 students have received electronic tablets to use in classrooms in a bid to support the teaching of literacy to junior classes and to expose students to technology.

Woy Woy South Principal Mr Terry Greedy said he believed that access to a number of reading related activities through these tablets would enhance the quality of the instruction students received during daily literacy sessions.

"The introduction of this form of technology has been enthusiastically received by students in all classes and it is amazing how skilled at using these devices they have become, considering how short a period they have been using them in their classrooms," Mr Greedy said.

Wireless technology has been installed in all classrooms to allow student's access to the internet, with plans to distribute more tablets to other classes in the near future.

"So effective have the original 24 tablets been, we have purchased a further 15 to extend access into our Year 2 classes," Mr Greedy said.

"The plan will be to continue purchasing these devices to increase the level of access students have in the early years at school," he said.

Newsletter, 6 August 2013

Terry Greedy, Woy Woy South Public School