Kay Bradley

1. What does school look like for students who are attending?

Students of essential workers, who are coming to school, are grouped in year level groups.  They are supervised by different teachers and teacher aides and engage in the same learning activities as students at home.

2. Can teachers use PDFs to send work home?

Whilst we understand the issues parents are facing we are also hearing that more and more parents are having success with OneNote. To convert OneNote work to PDF, does require reformatting and whilst we can send PDFs to parents for the time being, we will be persevering with OneNote. Mr Fenton will be focussing on helping teachers and parents from year levels still having problems with OneNote.

3. I’m finding ‘learning at home’ difficult, can I send my child back to school?

We as teachers like you as parents are really looking forward to our school returning to normal.  In the meantime, we have to ‘stay to course’ in following Education Queensland’s guidelines.  If you are at home, or have other caregivers available, your child/children should be at home.

Be flexible and kind to yourself.  If you are trying to work at home, do not feel that all learning tasks need to be completed each day. Discuss with your class teacher what tasks take priority.  

4. There seems to be lots of different messages in the media, from different sources, who should we listen to?

The avalanche of directions from different sources are overwhelming at times.  We at school, are in daily contact with Education Queensland and are following all directions given.  We will pass these onto you as soon as is possible.

5. Will my child be behind in their learning?

Obviously all students around the world are being impacted by current events.  Our students at school and at home are still learning and when we return to school we will continue with our school curriculum and make the necessary adjustments so that achievement standards are still met.

6. What are teachers doing at school, this week?

Our teachers have risen to the challenge of changing their entire way of working, in a very short time frame. This week, teachers continue preparing and resourcing future lessons, give feedback to students, support parents through emails and phone calls, re-format work into PDFs,  forward planning with our Head of Curriculum and compile Interim reports. 

P.B.L. FOCUS OF THE WEEK