In the event of school closures, parents may need to support their children’s learning more closely. This is an opportunity for schools to make learning visible. Your teachers can start preparing home learning tasks now.

1. Discuss ideas with your staff begin implementing them.
   • Discuss ways in which you can continue to bring your community together online. For example, consider ways in which your school leaders can remain connected to your students through messages. This could include video messages or connecting with your school community via Zoom for a virtual assembly.
   • Let’s dance! At a specific time of the day the school shares a favourite song (with video) and puts the shout out to all students to get up and dance. Go Noodle is a helpful resource.
   • Create school wide challenges for interest groups such as art, physical activity and science challenges. Have students share their experiences using photos and videos.
   • Bring support staff in the loop and discuss learning opportunities for students eg) an online book club to be held by the school librarian.
   • Joke of the day from the principal, that is posted every morning at the same time. Children can then look forward to logging in and seeing what is waiting for them.
2. Some tips to help.
   • Create a “take-home” pack for students with resources such as library books, seeds for gardening, ingredients for cooking, basic art supplies or a list of basics for the home.
   • Practise holding a Google Hangout or Zoom video conference with small groups of students and staff.
   • Create flipped learning videos to introduce learning tasks. These can be recorded directly onto your device and uploaded to a post within Hero.
   • Plan, or co-create with students, a range of learning tasks for each curriculum area that can be worked on at home.
   • Compile a list of websites, learning apps and games for students to engage with.
   • Compile a selection of external online competitions to enter eg) writing competitions etc.