Visit the Argyll & Bute Parent and Carer Home Learning Support Portal to find resources that parents and carers can use for nursery, primary and high school level, as well as for home learning and care experienced young people.
You can visit the site at the following link: https://sites.google.com/ab.glow.scot/ab-parentcarer-portal/home
Thank you to all schools who have submitted examples of online learning. This will help to provide ideas and help to generate creative solutions for schools. The digital team is on hand to help if any support is needed. Please continue to share with your Education Officers the great work you are doing so that we can continue providing exemplars.
Regular communication through variety of digital platforms
Communication logs, phone, email, text etc
Virtual newsletter/week ahead update sent home each week
Virtual Newsletter • HT Newsletter • Strachur
Using school website
(Hermitage Primary School; click to enlarge)
Using individual GLOW folders to store work and photographs sent be parents through email
Schools using Facebook to reach out to young people and parents
Parent questionnaires
Planning shared with parents – task with identified Es, Os, LI and SC to allow parents to see where the learning fits into the progressive, learner’s journey
Parents sending in photos/videos of children’s work
Parents responding to questions from teachers
Pupils regularly and successfully engaging in tasks set by home
Parents undertaking their own learning tasks as an addition to work set
Twitter evidencing rich work at home
STEM challenge • Gaelic baking • Variety of learning
Seesaw used for effective communication
Class making use of Google Classrooms to create their own assembly, shared with parents
Teachers supporting learning with recorded videos
WOW Words • Number Talks 1 • Number Talks 2
Eco events
Reading families – parents supported through recorded videos on reading for pleasure with your child
Providing supportive links with tasks
Moving forward with transition
Support for creating an all about me power point • Moving On Poem P7 – S1
Support learning with Google quizes
Using social media to share information and pose challenges
Online assembly using YouTube
Regular family challenges sent home each week
Woodlands Learning Experience • Woodlands 2
Virtual days for all families to be involved in – ECO green day, healthy eating, sports day
Eco Family Project • Rhu’s trip to London
Feedback from parents on tasks set
Recorded 5-10 minute assemblies, recorded by HT providing overview of pupil’s work
A slideshow of recent photos of work, and sent to all classes/parents through Seesaw – Parents asked to send in ‘Proud Piece’, an identified piece of work each each, these then collated into a slideshow and shared to all school classes, building a sense of community.
