Homepage Tech Smart School On this page Navigating the Digital Age Together View our Tech Smart Guide Take the Wait Mate Pledge The Ignatius Alliance Navigating the Digital Age Together Our signature Tech Smart School program represents a thoughtful evolution in education. Blending innovation with tradition, this program promotes rich and purposeful learning while safeguarding student wellbeing. Through clearly defined parameters that set healthy boundaries on technology use, and a tailored digital literacy program, this initiative preserves originality, creativity, and critical thinking, while equipping young people with a range of competencies necessary to thrive in a digital world. The Tech Smart School Model Reception to Year 3: No personal digital devices Years 4 to 6: A limit to 60 minutes of personal digital device use per day Years 7 to 9: In each subject, approximately 50% of learning activities and assessments throughout the year will be completed without the use of digital technology Years 10 to 12: Continued Tech Smart approach wherever possible, with subject-based discretion. Exemptions apply for media, design, and technology subjects, inclusion support, and extenuating circumstances. Homework At the Junior School, digital technology is included only on specific nights for certain year levels. Digital devices are encouraged to remain at school when not required for homework, helping families manage screen time and maintain a healthy balance between online and offline learning. At the Senior School, homework is set in a Tech Smart approach, only including digital technology where required. The Ignatian Way: Bespoke Digital Literacy Curriculum Alongside the guardrails for personal 1:1 device use, an evidence-based Reception to Year 12 program helps students develop the skills, characteristics and competencies needed to thrive as 21st-century learners. Dedicated units on digital literacy, presented in an Ignatian context, are completed as part of our bespoke student development framework, The Ignatian Way. Over the course of their journey through school, students will: Develop self-awareness Become digitally literate Cultivate social responsibility Explore active and ethical citizenship Become effective collaborators and communicators. Tech Smart School is more than a program, it is a mindset, and a way of participating thoughtfully in the online world. View our Tech Smart Guide This publication is designed to be a helpful resource for families of the College and members of our wider community, offering knowledge and practical advise on how to integrate digital entertainment and devices into family life in a healthy and intentional way. View Tech Smart: A Guide for Families as a flip book Take the Wait Mate Pledge Let kids be kids for longer Smartphones are changing childhood and the issues they bring don’t stay at home; they follow students into school, impacting learning and wellbeing. We can change this together. In 2025 Saint Ignatius' College partnered with Wait Mate, a movement that helps parents unite and say “not yet” to smartphones. Our College community is encouraged to visit waitmate.org.au to take the pledge to delay smartphones until Year 10. The Ignatius Alliance The Ignatius Alliance is a space for parents, staff, students, and leading experts, to collaborate on initiatives that will support our Ignatian families in navigating social media and digital technology. A dedicated steering committee of parents leads the Ignatius Alliance, shaping its direction and driving meaningful change within our community. The Tech Smart program is an initiative created in partnership between Saint Ignatius' College and the Ignatius Alliance.
