Covid 19 Lockdown and return to school

 Zoom meetings - Lockdown Student relationships

It was so important to try and do what we could during the lockdown to support families to keep their children to be happy and to feel supported and not scared by everything going on in the world. So we tried our best to do this by creating our hub site sharing videos everyday of ourselves to have some sort of normalcy for them and making fun activities for them to complete. As well as sharing their work on the blog so they could keep connected with their peers. We also started hosting zoom meetings where we had lots of fun, gave them the chance to share and where we were able to connect with them and they were able to connect with and see their friends. This was all really important to help support the students and their mental and emotional health.

Physical environment

Our physical environment remained basically the same except upon their return we labelled their chairs rather than the table so they actually stayed and didn’t fall off as they were continually doing on the table. We continue to work on their teamwork skills by having them sit at group tables and learning to work together and help each other out when they need it.

Transition back to school

It was super important to transition the students back to school after the lockdown so they felt comfortable being back at school and being away from their families when they had been with them for such a long time. We took a week to settle them back in and to reflect upon the time we spent at home. Here is a link to our timetable from that week.