Deputy's News
Dear Families and Friends
Well, we are greatly looking forward to the return of our Preps and Year 1 next week. As of Monday 11th May the Prep and Year 1 classes will be returning to their usual classrooms and teachers.
The learning at home experience has been a positive, creative and playful time for many of our Prep students and I have included below a few pictures sent from Prep T parents journalling their time at home. Nature collages, going on Bear Hunts, measuring household items, and doing Maths workbooks at home are just a few of the enjoyable activties our Prep T students have been doing at home.
For the next two and a half weeks, our Yr 2 -6 students will continue to learn at home and continue to access their Virtual Classrooms. These classrooms will remain the preferred way of working for our students at home.
The “How to” is again detailed below for you all.
Three very important details to note:
- Please log in to the child’s Virtual Classroom before 11am, at the latest, each day. You do not need to notify the office or class teacher if you are logging into the Virtual Classroom. We can see who and exactly when students are logged in every day.
- If your student is not accessing their Virtual Classroom ie. Using the learning@home website or using paper copies of workbooks etc. then you will need to ring the office, email the teacher or Admin. or send a message to Q Parents every day. They will not be marked as absent. They will be marked as- In attendance- Learning at home. But we need to know they are home being supervised every day.
- If your child is sick and will not be doing any work from home then you also need to ring the Absence line and let us know the reason.
Accessing Virtual Classrooms
Virtual Classrooms are hosted by Education Queensland through The Learning Place. Classroom teachers have full control over the contents of each virtual classroom and students are able to collaborate and communicate with their teacher, and one another, through this site.
To find their virtual classroom students can Google “The Learning Place” or go directly to The Learning Place website. The preferred browsers for access are Fire Fox, Google Chrome, Edge or Safari. Do not use Internet Explorer.
Click the link on the right hand side of the page for eLearn (Blackboard) – see below. Students working from home will then be prompted to type in their MIS username and password. This information was recently sent home in an envelope with all students in P-3. You should have kept it safe and you will need to find it as this is your only way for logging in. Teachers do not keep copies of these passwords.
Students in Years 4 – 6 regularly use their own credentials to log-in to the computers at school and should be able to recall their own username and password.
Once eLearn (Blackboard) opens, a list of courses (or virtual classrooms) will appear on the right hand side of the screen. Select the course required from the list e.g. 5M Virtual Classroom.
You are then ready to access the resources and communicate with the teacher of that class.
** Please make sure when using external links, that students are adequately supervised.
If you have trouble accessing the Learning Place there could be intermittent connection issues. If this is the case try again later. You can still go to the learning@home website to access resources. This is not the same as accessing the Virtual Classroom though and will not log your attendance online.
*The Education Queensland Website- Curriculum- learning@home.
The link has also been sent to all parents via text.
*Once in this site there are several important tabs to visit. See headings below:
Well Being of Students- how a typical day should be spent learning at home.
English- organised in year levels and click on learning activities
Mathematics- organised in year levels and click on learning activities.
Learning Resources- STEM, HASS and the Arts- organised in curriculum areas with links to support children’s learning.
There is no username or password required to access these online materials and they will be updated every 2 weeks.
These resources are provided by Education Queensland and give the appropriate and recommended lessons/ worksheets for children to work from at home.
Students will also be able to access their usual online learning programs- Spelling Cityand Mathletics using their own usernames and passwords as per usual.
For Sunshine Online there is a generic username and password.
Username : dayboross
Password: sunshine
Please remember that all children are expected to wait in the CSA before School between 8:15am until the bell goes at 8:40am. The children are supervised during this time. There should not be children playing on equipment or waiting outside classrooms before this time. This is especially important at this current time as we are not having Assemblies and important messages are being relayed in the CSA before students go to class. All children are being marked on the roll in the CSA and then being sent to different classroom Hubs. In the afternoons they will meet their parents in their usual meeting place.
Some ideas for coping at home:
:Set realistic schoolwork hours- we have sent home recommended times for different areas.
:Include physical activity at a few stages in the day.
:Make sure you set aside time for snacks and lunch break times.
:Have a reading time. Read a book, outside, in a comfy space, on their own or with an adult.
:Plan a creative activity such as drawing, playdough time or playing with Lego.
Allow time to socialise with friends via apps, phone calls or even computer games. Set up with friends to eat lunch and chat together
:Plan some daily chores for them
*Work on a larger project-eg. plant a herb garden.
Mother's Day
Wishing all our Mum's a lovely day for Mother's Day.
Thank you Mrs Ryan!
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