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ONLINE or on campus - let's keep learning!
As we prepare for the reopening of our schools, Reddford House students' well-being is of the utmost importance to us. We are committed to protecting the health and safety of each of our students, through our strict protocols that include screening, deep cleaning, and social distancing regulations.
Careful consideration has been given to students who cannot return to campus. Our online learning programmes will continue to assist them, ensuring no one misses out on a moment of learning.
We believe that the digital environment will develop independent learning and 21st Century skills in all students.
Education is certainly changing and everyone at Reddford House Northcliff is keen to be changing with it. We’re all open for learning.
HOW IT WORKS
EARLY LEARNING SCHOOL
PREPARATORY SCHOOL
COLLEGE
EARLY LEARNING SCHOOL
For ELS Students (Stage 1 – 5):
- Learning will take place via various platforms including Class Dojo, Blue Jeans and Email. Updates and information will also be accessible via the Reddford App.
- For ELS children and their parents, a document will be sent to parents weekly describing the weekly overview by the class teacher as well as on a daily basis with a written overview of the learning activities for the day. This will commence on Wednesday, 18 March 2020, promptly at 08:30.
- Class teachers will greet children and parents each day at 08:30 on Blue Jeans and will share the content for the day.
- Teachers will be available between 08:30 and 13:00 to assist parents with tasks where necessary.
- Specialist teachers will prepare activities for children to do and send through on the day that the specialist subject takes place – e.g. Music, Physical Education, Drama, Dance, Robotics and Art where appropriate.
- Throughout the day, the class teacher will post videos in which she will highlight aspects such as learning objectives and learning activities.
- The day will follow the normal school day, with the regular break and lunch times, as if the children were at school.
- For all ELS questions, kindly contact your child’s class teacher.
- Should any matter need to be escalated, please contact the Head of School.
PREPARATORY SCHOOL
For Junior Preparatory School Students - Grade 1 - 3
- Learning will take place via various platforms including Class Dojo, Blue Jeans and Email. Updates and information will also be accessible via the Reddford App.
- For Junior Preparatory School students and their parents, a document will be sent to parents weekly describing the weekly overview by the class teacher as well as on a daily basis with a written overview of the learning activities for the day
- This will commence on Wednesday, 18 March 2020, promptly at 08:00.
- Class Teachers will greet children and parents each day at 08:00 on Blue Jeans and will share the content for the day.
- Teachers will be available between 08:00 and 13:30 to assist parents with tasks where necessary.
- Specialist teachers will prepare activities for children to do and send through on the day that the specialist subject takes place – e.g. Music, Physical Education, Drama, Dance, Robotics and Art where appropriate.
- Throughout the day, the class teacher will post videos in which she will highlight aspects such as learning objectives and learning activities.
- The day will follow the normal school day, with the regular break and lunch times, as if the children were at school.
- For all Junior Preparatory School questions, kindly contact your child’s class teacher.
- Should any matter need to be escalated, please contact the Head of School.
For Senior Preparatory School - Grade 4 to 7.
The intended outcome is that the curriculum is at the forefront of the work and, as far as possible, student progress should not be negatively impacted.
- Work will be shared via Google Classroom and will involve online lessons via Google Hangouts/Meet conferencing. Students will be invited to join the virtual classroom by their subject/class teachers.
- Students should be online and ready to connect with their subject/class teacher and complete a virtual roll call each morning at normal start time.
- Teachers will record and upload videos regarding explanations, concepts and important learning material and make them available to students for later review.
- Subject/class teachers will contact parents/guardians about absent students and those who are not completing the work.
Daily timetable for Senior Preparatory students
- Classes will take place ‘live’ as per the normal school timetable.
- Work for each class will be posted for the timetabled lesson via Google Classroom.
- Lessons will commence with a live video feed via Google Hangouts/Meet to:
- Connect with students ‘face-to-face’
- Recap the learning objectives of the previous lesson(s)
- Introduce and explain what will be covered in the day’s lesson
- Answer any questions/address any concerns that students might have
- Monitor and follow up ‘attendance’
- For all Senior Preparatory School related questions, kindly contact your class/subject teacher.
- Should any matter need to be escalated, please contact the Head of School.
Work set will reflect the length of the lesson and wherever possible, reflect the normal curriculum objectives. Learning activities may however differ from those in a classroom setting.
Homework during remote learning will complement the lesson, just as with normal school.
It is the student’s responsibility to complete the work or communicate to their teacher reasons for it not being completed. Teachers will ensure that by the end of the day, all student queries have been dealt with in an appropriate manner.
Should you have any technical difficulties in accessing Google Classroom or any of the online applications being used, your class teacher will be available online or he/she will be able to escalate your query to our IT Managers for support. If there are any updates to these arrangements, we will advise you immediately. We ask for your support at this time as we all try and work together through these exceptional circumstances.
COLLEGE
For College Students - Grade 8 to 12.
The intended outcome is that the curriculum is at the forefront of the work and, as far as possible, student progress should not be negatively impacted.
- Work will be shared via Microsoft Teams and will involve online lessons via Microsoft Teams conferencing. Students will be invited to join the virtual classroom by their subject/class teachers.
- Students should be online and ready to connect with their subject teacher and complete a virtual roll call each morning at the normal start time.
- Teachers will record record and upload videos regarding explanations, concepts and important learning material and make them available for students.
- Subject teachers will contact parents regarding absent students and those who are not completing the work.
Daily timetable for College Students
- Classes will take place ‘live’ as per the normal school timetable.
- Work for each class will be posted for the timetabled lesson Microsoft Teams.
- Lessons will commence with a live video feed via Microsoft Teams:
- Connect with students ‘face-to-face’
- Recap the learning objectives of the previous lesson(s)
- Introduce and explain what will be covered in the day’s lesson
- Answer any questions/address any concerns that students might have
- Monitor and follow up ‘attendance’.
- For all College related questions, kindly contact your subject teacher.
- Should any matter need to be escalated, please contact the Head of School.
Work set will reflect the length of the lesson and wherever possible, reflect the normal curriculum objectives. Learning activities may however differ from those in a classroom setting.
Homework during remote learning will complement the lesson, just as with normal school.
It is the student’s responsibility to complete the work or communicate to their teacher why it is not completed. Teachers will ensure that by the end of the day, all student queries have been dealt with in an appropriate manner.
Should you have any technical difficulties in accessing Microsoft Teams or any of the online applications being used, your class teacher will be available online or he/she will be able to escalate your query to our IT Managers for support. If there are any updates to these arrangements, we will advise you immediately. We ask for your support at this time as we all work together through these exceptional circumstances.
READY FOR SCHOOL?
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Find somewhere comfortable, peaceful and quiet to do your work.
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Make sure you have your laptop/tablet, your pencil case and paper.
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Request the structure and break-times at the start of the lesson.
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You can always message a question to your teacher - just like putting your hand up in class.