Distance Learning

It is with great sadness that we received the news of school closures on Monday afternoon – we will miss seeing all of your faces over the next few weeks, and will be hoping for the best for everyone. In these challenging times, however, comes a great opportunity for us to try out and explore new ways of learning. We are excited to be planning for distance learning over the next few weeks, which means your child can engage in learning at home – whether this is through the use of the learning packs which you all kindly collected, or online tools such as Seesaw and Google Classroom.

We have loved seeing what learning our tamariki have been up to so far and are very impressed with those who are independently completing the activities that have been set for your class! These tasks will be set each morning at 9 am during term time so make sure to log in and see what we have for learning for the day. We will be trying out lots of exciting ideas after our Easter holidays when we begin our focus on True Colours - Ngā Muramura Whakapono: What Colours My Life? It is important to both stay connected with others during this time, and spread positivity – what good things are you saying to your family each day?

We have had lots of positive feedback from you all so far and hope that you continue to enjoy distance learning. Here are a few:-

‘I like that we have lots of time to work on our own work and we can do it at our own pace.’ Izzy 

‘I really enjoyed it because you could do it in whatever order you want.’ Nina

‘What I like about distance learning is that I get to spend more time with my family even though we do work.’ Isabella

‘I like that you can chat with people on google hangouts.’ Rueben

 Here are some examples of Seesaw posts uploaded last week, working on using Te Reo to talk about the weather. These pictures were also uploaded with voice recordings, where students gave their Te Reo language a go and recorded themselves telling us the weather forecast for the day!