Unless it is COVID-related, Remote Learning is for the entire time from now until March Break or post March Break - June

Junior SCHOOL REMOTE LEARNING

February 23 - June 17, 2022

Remote Learning

On this page and site, you can find all the links and information you will need to support your child while they learn from home.

The school is optimized for in-person learning.

As we navigate the lifting of COVID mandates, LIVE Remote Learning check-ins with a teacher continue to be offered:

For the entire block of time from Feb 23 - March Break or March Break - June 17.
For students/ families isolating due to COVID symptoms. It is our expectation that any families with symptomatic children will prioritize rest and recovery over schoolwork.
In the 2 weeks after March Break, for families not ready to navigate the lifting of provincial mandates.

To sign up, please complete the Junior School - Remote Learning Notification Form and/ or reach out to Karen Nielsen (knielsen@yorkschool.com) to make arrangements.

In order to ensure that we have enough teachers available to safely support the students in the Junior School building, for other short-term absences, no live Check-ins will be available. However, you may use the Learning Menus below to follow along with work that is being completed both in school and online.

If you are opting for Remote Learning, please complete this form.

Knowing, as early as possible, how many students and teachers will be in the school and how many will be online is critical to our planning.

Remote Learning @ The Junior School

Students who sign up for Remote Learning will have access to daily check-ins by way of Google Meets. These check-ins provide an opportunity to review daily learning tasks outlined in the weekly Learning Menus. Students will then work asynchronously to complete and submit assignments via our digital platforms during the time they are learning remotely.

Students may return to school for in-person learning at any time; however, students, who are absent from school and not registered for remote learning for the reasons listed above will not access remote learning check-ins.

Our Remote Learning programme is facilitated through Google Meet. At the start of each day, students can find the links for their live classes using the Google Meet app or website (meet.google.com).

**Please note that the students must be logged with their York School email address (username) and password in order to see these links**

Junior School students who opt for Remote Learning can expect to:

Find all their Google Meet links for the day in the Google Meet app.
Attend live check-ins with Assoicate teachers at the start of the school day and again mid-day.
Get set up for their asynchronous activities.
Independently complete Specialist learning tasks shared in the Learning Menu below (also linked on school Chromebooks and iPads).

Some considerations regarding remote learning:

A high level of engagement is required for students to meet grade-level expectations and be successful.
Please help students to be on time for learning.
Students should have ready all necessary materials required for learning.
We recommend that students have water and a snack close by.
The student's camera should be turned on unless otherwise directed by a teacher.
Parents should remain at a distance and allow their children to share ideas independently during live learning sessions.

In Case of Illness

We recognize that students will get typical colds/flus etc during the course of a school year. This year, they may also contract COVID-19. If a student is ill, we expect that they will take time to recuperate rather than join their class online. The same holds true for our teachers. Thus, as mandated by the province, we may need to combine classes if we do not have enough healthy staff members to keep them separate.

Please refer to our "Return to Campus" advisory site for up-to-date COVID-19 guidance

Weekly Learning Menus

We highly recommend that students join the live classes unless physical or mental health challenges or family situations preclude it.

However, we will continue to publish the Learning Menus that some students used to manage asynchronous work when they were learning from home before this period of full-school Remote Learning.

Click on a circle below to access the Learning Menu for your grade.