Welcome to week 7 of term 3 and our sixth week of remote and flexible learning. We are maintaining a good ‘rhythm and flow’ in this unique period of learning and I thank our students, staff and families for their ongoing resilience and kindness. Next week, parent-teacher interviews will give us a great opportunity to reflect on achievement to date and plan for continued high-level learning across the remainder of the year.
 
Last week I offered the opportunity to submit questions regarding student learning during remote and flexible learning. I thank everyone who submitted a question and particularly for the manner in which it was done. I have highlighted a couple of questions that summarised the consensus from members of our community.
 
Given the current COVID-19 situation, is the expectation of performance from students the same or less than a standard year?
Whilst the curriculum that we assess against has not changed, the learning environment has changed (and changed significantly). We will be cognisant of this environmental change and how that has impacted learning for our students.
Because of the change to our learning (and broader living) environment in 2020, we are;

• Adapting our teaching approach to an online environment.
• Diversifying our approach to assessment.
• Personalising our holistic approach to learning and wellbeing, ensuring it caters to the vast array of family situations across our community.

• Family health and wellbeing.
• Parental workload.
• Remote and flexible learning for multiple siblings (and sometimes across multiple school settings).
• Balancing screen time.

• No matter the quantity of learning your child completes, each element of learning that your child engages in will be of benefit to them.
• There are many ‘incidental’ learning opportunities that happen across any day and these don’t always look like ‘traditional’ learning (‘pencil and paper’ or ‘worksheet’ tasks, for example).
• Upon a return to school, our teachers have strong assessment practices that inform their teaching and help us to target any learning gaps that may appear (and this is no different to how our teachers operate during regular face-to-face teaching). As is our normal practice, opportunities for learning remediation and extension will occur within all classrooms.

Again I thank you for taking the time to engage with us in regards to student learning. I am proud of how we are tackling this unique period and am confident that we will continue to succeed as we move forward together.
 
Stay safe and keep doing your best.
 
Rohan.

• Watch and share Martin’s video - Click Here
• Ask your students to create their own videos capturing themselves practising GEM
• Submit their clips to education@theresilienceproject.com.au as soon as they can along with a signed media release form (link below)
• Tune in to season 2 of GEM TV from the 7th of September at 11am.