Middle Years 

Year 7 & 8 Textiles

In remote learning our Year 7 and 8 Textiles students have powered through remote learning completing scavenger hunts, hands on designing activities as well as designing outfits based on Movies. 

Our students have showcased a range of skills across the term and have been superstars in completing the tasks. Eden Hindhaugh and Sadie Carey from 8C have created these masterpieces as part of our Movie Design Challenge.

Amber Thomson 

Textiles Teacher Year 7 and 8 

Year 9 Remote Learning Reflections

Remote Learning Reflection – Ally Thoma Year 9

For me, the start of lockdown and remote learning felt tough. Hearing about the spike in covid cases, I began to doubt myself academically. But I found getting myself into a routine everyday really helped my focus and engagement in learning. The biggest challenge was getting myself into that routine as it requires me getting up very early. Taking care of my hygiene helped wake me up before my remote learning day commenced. I would make sure to eat something before first period to make sure my brain is functioning and cognitive.

I believe the class calls are very helpful and refreshing. I do enjoy participating, answering questions and I find doing my work therapeutic. The highlight would be that I don’t have to stress myself by making sure I get to school on time. Anxiety is not an issue for me when it comes to remote learning and all my teachers are understanding and supportive of my learning capabilities. I feel like I have become more comfortable with communicating with my teachers and have adapted to being independent in my work.

Remote Learning Reflection – Jessica Huljak Year 9

Covid and Lockdown…. two of the most commonly used words over the past two years, who would have thought we would be dealing with such a global pandemic in our lifetime, it’s something I never expected to happen or experience. Pandemics were something I only thought happened in the 1800s, something you heard about from your grandparents, or old history you read about on the internet. So going into lockdown to beat this virus of course meant that our schooling was going to be affected. This year, 2021 allowed me to experience a majority of my learning onsite at Wantirna College remotely. Remote Learning can be very draining for students and teachers as well, the fear of not knowing when we will return back to onsite is definitely quite daunting and definitely takes a toll on our motivation. Wantirna College’s remote learning methods have been very successful in my opinion, and now that everyone knows what works best for them, and the teachers know what works best for their students, I believe everything was quite efficient and organised. Being a part of the leadership team as a middle year’s captain has been an amazing experience during remote learning, due to the continuous involvement we have had with setting up activities for the students and encouragement to carry on as normal as possible even though the pandemic was affecting us all in different ways. This time around the school has organised many more whole school activities, such as a briefing in the morning, trivia, kahoots, wellbeing days and Mental health help information for parents as well. The school has been constantly checking up on us this time around, they have even been sending out ‘Daily Check in’ surveys to gain insight from the students. Overall, everyone knows that online learning is not the easiest. However, I think Wantirna College has done a sensational job this time around at looking after the students and making remote learning as similar to onsite as possible. We are all hoping for our lives and schooling to return to normal as soon as possible and I’m sure that one day in the future we will be talking to our grandchildren about the days WE survived Covid 19.

Remote Learning Reflection - Jason Si Year 9

Over the past few weeks, remote learning has been a mediocre, rocky experience for me. There have been challenges and the lack of motivation in doing things; however, there are also some positives of remote learning. For example, being able to do things freely, you get a lot more freedom, flexibility, on what work you want to do and complete first. Remote learning also allows you to have more time to think. This allows you to have a better understanding of what the teacher is trying to teach you. Although there have been a few positives of remote learning, there are also some cons of remote learning. Some of the cons include, not being able to do some of the hands on classes, classes like, physical education, system technology, engineering, these classes require students to be in the classroom, and cannot be done remotely. Overall, remote learning definitely has more cons than pros.