Home Learning Site

https://sites.google.com/waipukurau.school.nz/waipukurauschoolonline/home?authuser=0

Kia ora Koutou,

We hope you all had/are having a lovely Easter long weekend with your families and have managed to squeeze some chocolate in at some stage!

I am emailing as we introduce our online learning to you, for what at this stage, will be our form of school learning until our National Alert Level is changed.

You should mostly be connected to your child’s Class Dojo or Seesaw at this point and this will be used for classroom teachers to send messages and keep in touch with families.

The learning platform we are using is Google Slides – many of our tamariki are already familiar with this platform, for others they may have not used it before.

I have attached a link to this email for a ‘School Site’. By going into this site you will be able to access your child’s learning team (Kiwi, Kawakawa, Titoki or Kahikatea). By clicking on the team name you will then be able to access the Google Slides and learning for that team. In this site there is also a ‘how to’ video on how to use Google Slides.

We do understand that this may be new learning for some of you, however it is the most simple of platforms that we could have used and has been chosen to ensure consistency across the school. This link to access the School Site and the Google Slides has also been put on the school Facebook page and will be shared with you via Class Dojo and Seesaw.

These slides will be updated regularly by teachers and will allow students and teachers to provide feedback to one another throughout this time.

Also on the site attached to this email, you will see that there are tabs for communication and how this will work, tips for families through this time and a variety of different learning ideas for all areas.

You will see that there are many and varied learning activities provided in these slides.

Please note, the work that has been provided is not mandatory, it is a suggestion. We wholeheartedly understand that this is a potentially trying time for families. Our goal in providing this work is to support you, and the last thing we want to do is create further stress for you through online learning. We too, as teachers, are navigating a whole new way of teaching and are learning as we go. It is important as we start online learning to keep patience and kindness at the forefront of our minds as we all work at this together. We are so lucky to have an amazing school community and we know we will all support one another though this time in any way that we can.

Please email your childs’ teacher if you have any issues/queries.

We will let you know as soon as we find out about next steps in terms of the lockdown alert levels.

Stay safe and stay well and have fun with your learning.

Ngā mihi,

Bex Skerman

Principal