Technology

Technology

St. Pius offers a wide variety of technology for student use. Students attend technology class starting in kindergarten and continue through eighth grade. Some highlights of our technology:

• St. Pius X has 1:1 Device per student program in place
• Chromebooks for student use in each classroom grades two through eight
•  iPads for kindergarten through grade one
•  Classroom set of BBC Micro:bit to teach block coding and to progress to Python and Java
• Digital cameras for creating digital media and videos
• Sphero robots are used for teaching programming skills to students of all ages

Online Resources for Student and Teacher Use:

• SchoolSpeak platform utilized for all teachers and parents for online grading and announcements
• Students have access to their individual grades through SchoolSpeak beginning in fifth grade
• Learning Management Systems - Seesaw (Grades K-2), Google Classroom (Grades 5-8). Students in grades 2-8 receive a school-issued Gmail address for use of Google Docs and classroom collaboration
• Students gain access to their Gmail accounts in 5^th grade – restricted to in-house emails  for the purpose of communicating with their teachers. 
• IXL - Junior High 
• iReady - Kindergarten through grade five
• Grolier Online (an encyclopedia for research projects)
• Mystery Science (online science curriculum for grades K-5 with video and hands-on activities)
• Discovery Education Science (online science curriculum with video and interactive features)
• Typing Club for typing instruction and tracking