HOME LEARNING

I want to again thank our community for continuing to respect the current health orders and keeping your children at home to engage in the online learning material.

Please remember that the learning tasks and suggested timetables are for families to be flexible for their own home situation. Not everything on the grid needs to be completed. If you are finding the amount of work difficult, please choose from the activities available and do what you can. This is ok, this is how it is designed to be.

Choose family wellbeing over anxiety around workload. If you are at all worried, please email the school and your child's class teacher can get in contact with you.

ZOOM WELLBEING CHECK-INS

As communicated earlier in the week, tomorrow (Thursday) will be our first Zoom Wellbeing check-in for students learning at home. Detailed protocols were sent out earlier in the week and can be accessed via the link below if you need to view them again.

Zoom_Check_in_Protocols.pdf

The purpose of these live check-ins, is to support student wellbeing, by providing students an opportunity to feel connected to their classroom teacher, class mates and the learning from home material. These sessions will not be instructional teaching sessions and are optional for all students. 

Reminders:

• Students must use and access their DoE Zoom profile. Personal Zoom accounts will not be able to access the session. Students sign in at https://nsweducation.zoom.us/
• Session details will be posted to each Google Classroom.
• Specific times set for each grade. Sessions are 20 minutes.
• This is optional and students can only access from home, students on site will not be able to access the session.
• If you have a school loan device, we believe that they may not be able to insert a virtual background when on Zoom. If this is the case, please arrange for a plain or blank wall to have as your child's background for privacy issues.

EDUCATION WEEK

At the end of last week we posted two videos to celebrate Education Week in a different way. If you missed these, or if you would like to watch them again please see the links below.

Video 1:

For every student at Artarmon, know that your teachers care very much about you and your learning journey. We know it is hard, we know it's not the same, but hang in there and we will see you very soon.

Teachers message to all APS students and families

Video 2:

How wonderful to see the images of your children come through the email this week. Watch this video to see the amazing things everyone has been doing at home so far! You are amazing APS, keep it up!

Students celebrating Education Week.

It has been so wonderful to continue to receive photos of students learning at home  being sent in via the school email.

Keep it up everyone, you are all doing such a good job!

FAMILY FRIENDLY ART ACTIVITY

Ms Simms has been at it again and created a family friendly art activity for you to follow along with at home and let your creativity shine.

Don't forget to send in your photos so we can share them in next weeks Newsletter. If you created a Cat Mask last week, we would love to see some pictures.

Enjoy!