REMOTE LEARNING | Junior School
Remote Learning in 2021 The Student Experience It was unnaturally quiet around the St Paul’s campus during Term 3 and the beginning of Term 4, 2021. Our beautiful green spaces, classrooms, libraries and halls stood largely empty and eerily silent. Without the bustle of students and staff going about their teaching and learning, the school felt incomplete. Yet while the campus lay dormant, activity was flourishing online as our teachers, students and their families responded to the incredible challenges that remote learning presented for our school community. What did our students find were their biggest challenges? What did they enjoy? How did they stay motivated, healthy and both physically and mentally strong? Our Junior and Secondary School Captains share some of their thoughts on one of the most difficult periods of teaching and learning in the life of St Paul’s.
Scarlett Newton Junior School Captain “Learning online without teachers and friends has been difficult, as we do not have direct assistance and previously learning with others had made things easier and more fun. Being in Year 6 and learning online, particularly in the exhibition planning time, has been even harder. Online learning has meant that many Junior School students have missed out on fun activities including Gala Day, Camps, Excursions, Money Systems and more. Online learning isn’t all bad though – it’s fun to wear whatever clothes you would like and have more of a free and independent learning system. In Year Six we have been doing our government unit and we have had an online democracy and also a dictatorship! This has been a very fun and interesting way to learn about different government systems. We did do some fun things like making ice-cream with Miss Gale on a TEAMs call, “Tea with a DepuTea” and the wellbeing days like House Day and Book Day. Online learning in 2021 has been challenging but the teachers have tried really hard to also make it fun.”
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St Paul’s Grammar School
Mrs Rachael Jamieson Newton taking part in “Tea with a DepuTea”
