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I want to publicly thank all parents for the way they have taken up the role of assisting their child with their learning. Parents have not replaced the teachers but are now playing a significant supporting role in maintaining a continuity of learning. Your role is crucial and will continue to be so as we move into Term 3 with a continuation of the current situation re social distancing and isolation. A big thank you to all parents.

Last year’s lockdown at John Therry made the school eerily quiet without the handball and basketball games, student chatter and laughter, and the learning noise that is usually so apparent. The Staff have very quickly moved into the remote learning role and have spent time up-skilling and reviewing the current continuity of learning plans and altering upcoming assessments and learning better ways to deliver learning remotely. I thank them very much as well.

So what did we learn from the last lockdown? We learnt that not all students were able to engage in remote learning because of a range of factors relating to technology, internet, family support capacity, number of children needing devices and much more. We learnt that the students who engaged in the remote lessons returned to school in a better position and achieved more upon return.

Significantly we learnt that the socializing aspect of face to face teaching with classmates was missed by almost all students. I remind all parents that the school is open with Staff allocated to supervise those students who attend and assist them accessing their remote lessons.

 Let’s hope and pray that this situation is short term and we return to normal schooling quickly.