Google Accounts

By Simon Clarke | Posted: Wednesday December 7, 2016

The following is important information regarding your child's google account

Your child currently has their own education-linked school based Google account. For some this includes a GMail account that is monitored by our school. Children are only able to have Google accounts if they are 13 years or older, or if their account is managed by an adult or a school. Because our school closes for the summer break on Thursday the  15th December, the following holiday arrangements have been made in relation to Year 5 & 6 Google accounts:

YEAR 6 Accounts: On Tuesday 20th December all Year 6 students will have their school Google accounts deleted from our school domain. This means any work currently stored in these accounts will also be deleted. If your Year 6 student wishes to keep any of the work currently stored in their Google account, you will need to do the following before Tuesday 20th December:
1. Create a new Google account in your own name
2. 'Share' any of the documents that you want to save with the new Google account you have created
3. Change the ownership of the shared documents to yourself so that you become the owner. (NB this is important. If this is not done, the work will be deleted when the account is deleted).

All OTHER YEAR GROUP ACCOUNTS: On Tuesday 20th December all google accounts will be disabled for the summer break. These accounts will be reactivated again at the start of the 2017 school year. The saved documents and email of all Year 5 children will still be in their account when their account is reactivated at the beginning of next year.