Remote learning

Student Wellbeing

Maintaining support for student health and wellbeing is a high priority during this time of uncertainty in the world, and throughout the return to remote learning.

Students will again be experiencing changes in routines and lifestyle and a degree of social isolation which can increase levels of stress and anxiety. This will again impact all students in different ways, so our focus on student health and wellbeing will be critical to ensure students stay engaged in learning.

Daily timetable / Routine

We know that routine is crucial for your child's learning and for their mental health. Each level has provided a suggested Remote Learning 2.0 timetable and Daily Schedule for for their students. We recognise that this may not suit the needs of every family in our school, and therefore recommend that you sit with your child or children and work out a daily schedule that works for your family. This will allow your child/children to know what to expect each day and will help them get into a learning routine. We encourage you to include learning opportunities that occur naturally through household chores and activities such as cooking, gardening and tidying up.

Your children should engage in physical activity regularly and take periodic breaks as they learn at home, just as they do at school. This is vitally important to their health, well-being, and to their learning.

Learning Space

We once again encourage families to establish a space or location at home where children will learn most of the time. It should be a place that can be quiet at times and have a strong wireless internet signal, for those times your child may need to access online learning resources. As they will be accessing the internet for their learning, it is important that students are able to be actively supervised by parents/carers, as they would be when online at school.

In order to access the virtual classrooms that have been created, and the digital content the teachers have put together, your child will need to have access to a digital device. If you need to discuss access to a device or the internet, please contact the school office.

Accessing your child's 'Learning @ Home' program

Your child will be able to access their learning through their G Suite eduPass account. Details of your child’s log-on, password and email address were provided to your child by their classroom teacher at the end of Term 1 and used by them during Term 2 Remote Learning. If you have misplaced this information please contact your child's classroom teacher who can confirm these with you. Instructions on how to log in to your child's G Suite eduPass account can be found in the 'Google Education' tab of this website in both document ‘Logging into your child’s G Suite eduPass account for Learning Continuity’ and video format.

For Remote Learning 3.0 our students will access learning content via:

• Google Classroom Homeroom eg. 3A

• Google Classroom Subject Classes eg. Year 3 - Reading

• Google Classroom Specialist Classes eg. PE Year 3

We have listened community feedback and have considered the learning needs and capacity of our students to use and manage technology when planning for Remote Learning 3.0.

Class specific communication from teachers to students will occur in their Google Classroom Homeroom. Allocated learning tasks specific for your child’s learning needs will be issued through their Google Classroom Year Level Subject Classes. Year level learning timetables and daily planners, will be uploaded to Google Classroom Homerooms each Friday for the coming week. Student learning will now appear in a Google Slide format. Each Friday our staff will upload curriculum area specific content in Google Slides format into Google Classroom Year Level Subject Classroom's (eg. Year 3 - Reading) for the coming week. The slides will contain, lessons introductions / warm-ups, learning tasks, teacher videos, material links etc for the whole week. Google Slides can be downloaded and / or printed. Remember if printing we recommend you print multiple slides to a page and use a draft colour mode or black and white print setting.

Supporting your child's learning

The level of support and ways of engaging with your child / children for Remote Learning 2.0 will vary based on their age and learning needs and your experience of Remote Learning in Term 2.

We continue to see the partnership between home and school as crucial in assisting our students to develop age appropriate independent learning skills and for them to build the capacity to manage their own learning. In order to support your child at home you can:

• Provide the right amount of support at the right time;

• Encourage your child to take risks with their learning;

• Use open-ended questions when supporting your child’s learning;

• Ensure your child retains responsibility for their learning; and,

• Give the least amount of help first to encourage your child’s ownership of the task. They may need to re-read task descriptions and / or rewatch video content provided by teachers to support student learning.

Teacher Communication

General communication will happen through your child's Google Classroom spaces for your child's class and year level subject classes. Teachers will communicate anything specific with parents through email and COMPASS, when and as necessary. The frequency and detail of these communications will be determined on a needs basis. As in a regular onsite school day, teachers may not be able to respond via email immediately during remote learning, but will do their best to respond in a timely manner. This website will also be a portal for news and notifications from the school regarding the Remote Learning 2.0 program.

Online Behaviour

In line with the Cybersafety learning students have done throughout the year, we expect that our students are polite, respectful, and appropriate in their online communications and that they represent your family’s values in their interactions with others. In their virtual classrooms, comments and interactions should relate directly the the learning. We ask that purely social interactions be done through other forums.

How to access help

Please email the class teacher if you have questions related to:

• A piece of work, resource, learning activity (however, we encourage the students to ask for help themselves through their Google Classroom if they don't understand something)

• Personal or health concern

• Any academic concern

You can also access the 'Frequently Asked Questions' part of this website.

Thank YOU!

We appreciate and thank you for your ongoing cooperation and understanding as we return to our Remote Learning program and as we do our best to ensure the learning continuity for all of our students during this period of mandated remote learning.