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Children need to have a variety of tasks, to develop all their skills and interests. They need to be turning over physical bits of paper, cutting things out, drawing, writing with a pencil etc. Which leads me on to ‘online learning’. As a school we are using the glory of...
...the internet, because it gives us communication opportunities, research possibilities and systematic checks, which we couldn’t have dreamed of even 20 years ago. But…. We do not want children to be online for hours. Children should be actively and physically engaged in ...
... their work, and primary children often engage passively with screens, rather than actively. Excessive screen time can impact negatively on mental health. Also, I am really concerned about a ‘normalisation’ of independent online activity by young children. I know that...
I know that teachers and parents don’t mean to be telling their children “Go ahead, do what you want online, by yourself, with no supervision,” but in reality and a busy house, that could become what is normal. That’s a dangerous precedent for young children, who are too young..
...to understand risks online. That’s why we’ve limited our online interactions to watching short explanatory videos by the teachers, messaging teachers for support or with completed work (as necessary), joining a weekly class zoom for pastoral reasons, having live French ...
... lessons, and doing their routine English and Maths challenges on our online platform as they always do.
