Leumeah High School

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Innovation and Technology

Leumeah High School has been designated an Apple Distinguished School

Recognised for innovation, leadership, and educational excellence using technology

September 1, 2024 — Leumeah High School is pleased to announce it has been recognised as an Apple Distinguished School for the 2024–2027 program term. Schools apply and are selected for this distinction based on their commitment to continuous innovation in education and using Apple products to inspire, imagine, and impact teaching and learning.

Apple Distinguished Schools are centers of leadership and educational excellence, with a clear vision for how technology-rich environments support learning goals. In Apple Distinguished Schools, forward-thinking leaders and their communities work to inspire, imagine, and impact teaching and learning, and they have documented results of academic accomplishments.

Schools all over the world are using iPad and Mac to transform learning. As teachers incorporate technology into their lessons, they empower students to lead, learn, and thrive, to discover new opportunities, and to make their world a better place.

Innovation and Technology

We believe that powerful learning experiences occur at the intersection of inspiration, engagement, innovation, and creativity. At Leumeah High School this starts with knowing and caring for all our students. We aim to prepare our students for the future by providing meaningful learning experiences, leveraging technology, explicitly teaching the 4C’s (Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking and Creativity) and continually reflecting on our practice.

Leumeah High School’s leadership focusses on the pursuit of educational innovation to support students in their future endeavours. With a focus on evolution in place of revolution the school has taken slow, strategic, and deliberate action to bring about change in practice and culture.

In the classroom, our students use iPads everyday to work through digital Pages workbooks that provide information, require them to collaborate with their peers, connect them to the outside world and then bring them back to consolidate their understanding. We are engaging students in learning through live online quizzes, exploring places and objects through VR and AR and putting the information at their fingertips.

With technology at their disposal and innovative pedagogical practices, students are sharing their understanding through a more expansive range of creative avenues. From explaining what they would need to survive Mars, ‘live from Mars’ (using green screen) to prototyping an App that allows young people to utilise school resources to reach their physical fitness goals, our students are more engaged and passionate about their school work. Learning has become real-world, problem-based and tailored to student learning needs. Student learning experiences are only restricted by their own creativity.

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