End of Week 1 of Digital Learning

We have reached the end of the first week of being at home due to Covid19. Well done to everyone for their efforts in what’s been a new way of doing the bulk of our learning.

Digital learning has always been available and carried out but, for our pupils, it’s been in the ‘comfort’ of the real classroom with the teacher there to help. This week has been a whole new ball game! And that goes for the teachers as well!

It can be difficult to cope, at home, especially if you have more than one school age or FE student in the house. I know what’s like having three of us working from home! FRAUGHT!

It would be great if the children could engage in the tasks posted for them but they can spread the work out and do it over an extended length of time. We do have some children who love to finish everything as it appears and for them, the routine is probably what they like.

Parents and carers can always e-mail the teachers using their Google e-mail address if you or your child needs some extra help. Believe me, we teachers have all been helping each other in our very own Google Classroom!

It’s also clear that the children are keen, through Google Classroom, to keep in touch with one another and with their teachers.

Just to give you an idea of the scale of things there were, across the city, 20,000 daily users of Google Classroom with 21,500 daily files being created. On Wednesday there were 2,700 Google Meets and around 11,000 e-mails!

We’re all still learning together, so please, pupils, try to engage with the work in your Google Classroom, even  if it’s just to try a few tasks and maybe meet up with your teacher and some classmates.

Finally, we hope that as many parents and carers as possible will respond to Mrs Ironside’s questionnaire about digital classrooms as we will use that to help improve Riverbank’s Digital Learning Classrooms!

But remember, Keep Safe and you can do that by following the advice on Covid19 and we look forward to meeting with you again, next week in Google Classroom. Enjoy your weekend, mums and dads and boys and girls!

UNCRC / RRSA

Article 3 – The best interests of the child must be a top priority in all things that affect children.

Article 24 – Every child has the right to the best possible health. Governments must work to provide good quality health care …..

Article 28 – Every child has the right to an education.

Article 31 – Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.