At Our Lady Star of the Sea, we provide and manage a G Suite for Education account for all students. We use G Suite for Education productivity tools from Google including Gmail, Sites, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawing and more used by tens of millions of students and teachers around the world. At Star of the Sea, we have been using G Suite for Education for the last 6 years for students to complete homework, daily learning and teaching tasks, assignments, research, communicate with their teachers and peers, collaborate with students on group tasks, sign into iPads, Laptops, Desktops, Chromebooks and learn 21st century digital citizenship skills. Due to the Child Safe Standards, we are required to share this information with our families. This link Click here provides answers to common questions about what Google can and can’t do with your child’s personal information, including:

• What personal information does Google collect?

• How does Google use this information?

• Will Google disclose my child’s personal information?

• Does Google use student personal information for users in K-12 schools to target advertising?

• Can my child share information with others using the G Suite for Education account?

Please read it carefully and let us know if you have any questions. If you have concerns over the use of G Suite and your child’s Google account, please speak with the office to arrange a meeting with School Principal Kerryn Sells and/or Wellbeing Leader and Deputy Principal Paul Anderson or myself as Technologies Leader.

Thank you, 

Andrew Rayson

Technologies School Leader