School Leaders
Messages from the Office, Assistant Principal and Learning Specialists...
School Leaders
Messages from the Office, Assistant Principal and Learning Specialists...
During the week, we sought the feedback of our parent community via Compass on how remote learning is going. We would like to thank the approximately 70 families who took the time to share their perspectives so that we can improve.
The majority of families surveyed shared that the current structure is working well and should remain. Please see the questions and response graphs below.
We are always looking for the next step that we can take to make your child's education even better. Through the responses and comments families shared in the survey, we gained rich insights into what is working well and what improvements we could make.
Over the coming weeks, we will be aiming to make the following tweaks:
With every family's situation being unique, it is difficult to come up with a model that works for everyone. Even within the same class, students and their families can have vastly different perceptions based on their individual circumstances. We hope that the actions above can allow families the flexibility to find a routine that works for them.
Over the coming week, teachers will be looking through the responses to see if there are tweaks that could be made to individual classes or year levels to further respond to the feedback.
We thank you again for helping us to improve.
How is your child finding the amount of work provided?
How is your child finding the format of live lessons with their class teacher and independent tasks throughout the day? Please only consider lessons with your child's class teacher in this question. A following question will ask about specialist lessons.
Specialist classes: Our specialist team (STEAM, Music, Mandarin and PE) are seeking your feedback on the amount of specialist lessons each day. Students currently have 2 specialist lessons.
Please note that for extenuating services in relation to school services and support, we have a Wellbeing email address: wellbeing@southmelbourneps.vic.edu.au This email address is monitored between the hours of 8:30am and 4:30pm Monday to Friday. A member of the Wellbeing Team (Miss Carmen Britnell or Miss Jenny Davies) will endeavour to respond within 24 hours during the Remote Learning period.
Click here for an article published this week in The Age
Headspace has created a video providing tips for parents and carers during lockdown and are running free webinars for parents and carers about offering support when they are concerned about a young person’s mental health.
Wellbeing activities and conversation starters are available for parents of primary school-aged children here.