Guidance for parents

When school is closed we continue to commit to ensuring that your daughter will be able to learn and achieve as successfully as possible. We appreciate that this will be challenging for you and your daughter and our staff will do their utmost to support your daughter through remote learning. That being said, your daughter has her role to play too and should take a strong level of responsibility for her learning, complete the work that is set and communicate with her teachers.  We will be providing remote learning through our Google Classroom learning platform. 

What is Google Classroom?

Google Classroom enables teachers to create an online classroom area in which they can manage all the documents that their students need. Documents are stored on Google Drive and can be edited in Drive’s apps, such as Google Docs, Sheets and so on. But what separates Google Classroom from the regular Google Drive experience is the teacher/student interface, which Google designed for the way teachers and students think and work.

What does Google Classroom do?

Google Classroom  provides a teacher/student-friendly way of managing classroom documents. Here’s what can be done with Google Classroom:

• Make assignments: Teachers can create learning activities and homework assignments for students. The necessary documents can be uploaded for the students to read or work on. Students receive email notification of new assignments. The students can submit work and assignments when finished, and these can be assessed. 

• Make announcements: A quick  announcement for the entire class can be typed and sent by e-mail to all your students in the class.

• Store classroom materials: Documents, videos and photographs can be stored on Google Classroom. These all help to support the learning.

• Allow students to interact: Students have the ability to comment on their work and announcements, as well as e-mail each other through the Classroom interface.

• Assessment: students can communicate with their teacher through Google Classroom. They can send work to their teacher and they can have an online discussion through the comment boxes.

How will your daughter’s work be assessed?

Students can communicate with their teacher through Google Classroom. They can send work to their teacher and they can have an online discussion through the comment boxes.  Your daughter will be given a specific time frame to complete the learning activities and to send complete work to her teacher for marking. 

The beauty of Google Classroom is that it has the capability for ongoing dialogue to help and support with next steps to  praise and to assess and record your daughter's learning. 

We will provide some live lessons and expect all students to log in on time and follow the student etiquette associated with live stream lessons.