Daily Learning plans will be uploaded to the Learning Hub ready for learning each day. Teachers have been particularly conscious of planning learning that does not require parents or students to leave the home. This is to assist in supporting the strict ‘don’t leave home’ directive.

Establishing a learning environment at home:

The aim of this work is to ensure that students maintain their school habits of learning. This means that over the next week you are encouraged to support your child in developing a mindset of doing school work from home. This will include:

• Taking it slowly, allow your child time to adjust.
• Ensuring that your child has set a ‘normal and achievable’ routine, perhaps make a timetable.
• Speaking with them about your expectations to complete all of the work set.
• Making sure they have a study area that is quiet, clean and fosters their need to concentrate. Turn off TVs and any distractions.
• Speak with them about their concerns and seek assistance if they are overly anxious.
• Doing what is reasonable and practical each day given that you may be working from home as well.

We understand that some students will take quite easily to this change whilst for others it may take a little longer.

Remember not all learning is formal. Reading to your child a book that they are interested in or watching a documentary together is also learning. Conversations about topics of interest build a student’s knowledge and supports their engagement in more formal learning tasks.

Establishing routines and expectations:

Start and end each day with a check-in to help your child:

• Clarify and understand the daily learning plan they will get from their teachers
• Help them organise themselves 
• A healthy daily routine is great for mental and physical health, as well as concentration and learning.
• Regular exercise breaks and brain breaks will be included in the daily learning plan. This might mean going for a walk, dancing, floor exercises, going outside in the yard. Encourage your child to take these breaks
• Encourage healthy eating habits and make sure they drink enough water.

The remote learning day will not be the same as a full day of classroom learning. So, your child may finish the daily learning plan earlier than what the end of the school day may be. This is to be expected so do not be concerned that he or she is not engaged in ‘school work’ all day. You may also find your child becomes fatigued after lunch, this could be a good opportunity to do some play based activities.

The Learning Hub Link with the daily learning plans will be made available at 5.30pm this afternoon.

Screentime

Too much screen time is a genuine concern and teachers have been directed to use other modes of learning where possible e.g writing activities

Parents will be the best judges of the appropriate amount of screen time for learning.

Collection of work materials from school: Some students may have left belongings such as pencil cases, iPads at school over the holiday break. If this is the case, and students have no other alternative, these may be collected from the classrooms. 

Parents cannot come onto the site to collect items however we can allow students to go to their rooms and gather their materials.

Please note that the school does not want to encourage anyone to unnecessarily leave their home during this strict lockdown period.