Term 3 Week 5 - Lockdown & Home Learning

We’re hoping to see you all at school later this week but, just in case, we’re planning for a longer lockdown and have activated Learning from Home Programmes. We’ve done this before and we will work together again to make this lockdown as easy, fun and entertaining as possible and we’ll still keep learning. 

Every Sunday we will send out a learning post (as usual). This post will outline the learning for the week, update you on anything new and offer times for your child to meet with us online.  You are most welcome to join us for these sessions, especially the Monday chats. The Monday meetings will outline the learning for the week and will act as a check-in to see how we are all going.  The learning will be in a slide deck that will be embedded with this post. You should be able to move through the slides and click on the links. Let us know if you have any problems.

We are well aware that many of you will be working from home and juggling a million other things. There is no pressure from us - we’re in the same boat. The learning that we send out will be largely play-based and independent. The reading is also an independent activity but, as it requires a device, half an eye on things is probably not a bad idea. We have some very clever tools for monitoring the reading from our homes but we need to be sure that the kids are doing the work by themselves or we aren’t going to be able to help.

K123 work as a collaborative team and we know what it’s like to spend all day with our little bundles of mischief and emotion. If you have any issues, worries or even a funny story that you just have to share we are only an email/post away. 

We are ready for online learning but need to know a few things from you.

• Did you read this on Educa or the class blog? 

• Do you have internet and a device that your child can use? If not, have you filled in the digital help form? Link Here

•  Is there anything else that we need to know that might help us support you and your child better?

PLEASE, respond by email to micheller@stmarysrotorua.school.nz. This will help me to check that I also have the correct email for you - I will need email addresses for online chats. If I don’t get a reply, I will have to assume that there is an issue accessing online learning and will start ringing around to check on you (that’s not supposed to sound threatening - hehehe).