What Content are children watching?

The latest Insight from Parenting Ideas discusses the impact on children of watching content that is aimed at more adult audiences. It provides some useful strategies to stop the pester power.

Booking for Parent Teacher ZOOM meetings – Bookings open from 5pm today.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions we are offering parent-teacher conferences via ZOOM only. This will best manage the number of adults in the school building during Week 10, Monday 29 June to Thursday 2 July.

If parents and carers have had a significant meeting with their child’s teacher before 29 June, you may have come to a mutual decision that no further meeting is required at this time. If the teacher feels that a face-to-face chat is required, they are currently contacting parents to lock in a meeting time that suits both parties. If as a parent you need to request a face-to-face meeting, please contact your child’s teacher before making an online booking.

Due to the online format, some teachers are opening appointment slots on the Tuesday or Wednesday during the day, when they have release time.

To make a booking for a ZOOM Parent-teacher meeting:

1. Visit schoolinterviews.com.au
2. Select ‘MAKE A BOOKING’ from the top menu.
3. The code you need is tc3ck (it is case sensitive).
4. Follow the instructions to select your child’s teacher and reserve yourself a time. Enter your best contact phone number so if there are technical issues the teacher can call you.
5. Repeat for each teacher.
6. You will receive an email with your booking information. It will confirm your date and time. It will contain a link to enter the ZOOM session the teacher has created. Please save this important email and enter the time in your calendar. Reminders will not be sent.
7. The email can be forwarded to a second parent, so both parents can join the ZOOM meeting.
8. On interview day, please prepare to enter the ZOOM meeting well before your appointment time to sort out technical issues. We will have the school phone manned to help troubleshoot.
9. Click on the link, or cut and paste the link, into the ZOOM window to enter the meeting. Teachers have set it up that you will be placed in the ‘waiting room’ until your appointment time. Your microphone should be on mute.

We thank you for your flexibility with this change to practice. Please be considerate of yourself and your teacher with this new meeting procedure. If the outcome is not working, please reschedule or arrange a meeting face-to-face.

 The importance of play

During an online workshop presented by BeYou last week, as adults we were challenged to think of 1) How we play? 2) How we make time for play?

Also, a provocation popped up in my facebook feed, which I shared on the school facebook page about what the ‘new normal’ looks like for children as we resume out-of-school activities. And so, I share with you today a few thoughts from my reading about the importance of play this week.

1. Play helps children develop social skills.
2. Play helps children develop emotional skills.
3. Play is a way that children can work through and resolve problems.
4. Play helps children develop physical skills.
   

We will be opening our creative play shed next week as social distancing rules become more relaxed. This area has in the past created many opportunities for play.

As we return to or redefine our family lives after isolation, may we all remember the importance of play. To read a little more click here (https://beyou.edu.au/fact-sheets/social-and-emotional-learning/why-play-is-important)

Yours faithfully,

(And currently playing a new family game called ‘Zeus on the Loose’. Fantastic maths!)