9th January

By Lewis Polden -

 


Have a wonderful week everybody!

 Important dates

9th January: Goal-setting meetings start

16th January: Optional reading assessments start

16th January: Continuous reporting starts for Term 2



It's great to see all the positive rewards rolling in! Please be generous with these at the moment - it's tough for our students to be back to online learning, let's "catch them being good" as much as possible! Thank you for all that you do.


Please report any inappropriate posts to admin - if the IP address has been used before to access the school network, it's a fairly straightforward job to prove guilt. We have had some success with this recently.


Also, please refer to this document here if you require information regarding how you can deal with challenging behaviour that may present itself while teaching online.



Just in case you are looking for some support regarding online expectations please refer to this presentation for guidance. We are unsure how long we will be teaching online moving forward, but it is always a good thing to have these expectations in mind.




You may enjoy this article, it's a toe-in-the-water piece regarding learner autonomy, with some simple "top tips"!



What with online learning and shortened timetables, you may be getting requests from parents for "homework", "extra work", "worksheets" and "more work"! It can seem like there's never enough work!

An idea to offset this may be to encourage students towards project work... this can be completely independent - a "passion project" on a simple level, according to the individual student's passions.

As always, "Guidelines, not tramlines", here are a few suggestions:

  • a higher proportion of paper as opposed to screen - minimise the screentime
  • it won't be graded
  • students can present results to classmates
  • rewards will be given out
  • pair up with a friend or work alone

Light read on PBL (project-based learning) here if you are interested




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