To provide learning continuity for your child, it’s important they have as much routine and certainty as possible. School plays a large role in your child’s routine. To support learning at home, you’re not required to be a subject expert, teacher or educator. Your role is to partner with Roxburgh Homestead Primary School to support your child’s home learning.
Roxburgh Homestead Primary School will:
Platform Name | Description | Used in Grades | Parent Information Sheet | Privacy Impact Assessment |
Seesaw | Seesaw is a platform for student engagement that inspires students of all ages to do their best, and saves teachers time! Students use creative tools to take pictures, draw, record videos and more to capture learning in a portfolio. Teachers find or create activities to share with students. | Foundation | ||
Google Classroom | Google Classroom is a free web service, developed by Google for schools, that aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments in a paperless way. The primary purpose of Google Classroom is to streamline the process of sharing files between teachers and students. | Grade 3 | ||
Edmodo | Edmodo is an educational technology company offering a communication, collaboration, and coaching platform to K-12 schools and teachers. The Edmodo network enables teachers to share content, distribute quizzes, assignments, and manage communication with students, colleagues, and parents | Grade 6 | ||
You can provide support for your child by:
*You should adjust these responsibilities according to the year level of your child.
Student responsibilities include:
We recognise that every home is different. Where possible, it’s important to provide a quiet and comfortable learning space. Your child may have a regular place for doing home learning under normal circumstances, but this space may not be suitable for an extended period of time. For some families, having all children around one central table may work best.
Where possible, home learning should take place in a space your family shares.
For example, a lounge room or dining room. These spaces are preferable over a bedroom, where:
The Learning space should be a place:
It’s important that you set these kinds of expectations as soon as learning from home begins, rather than several days later if you notice your child is struggling and feeling confusion which they may do it they do not have a consistent routine.
It’s important you keep a balanced approach to home learning. Time spent using digital devices for learning should be broken up with physical exercise and offline learning tasks.
It’s also important that during this period of remote learning we maintain safe and responsible use of information and communication technologies. This includes: