Dear Parents,
It is incredibly important in the online environment that we foster the time to nurture our students and connect with them. In the bid for me as their new Phase Leader to be accountable to your child's needs, it is important that I get to know your child so that I can help offer insight, and feedback, and track and monitor their learning with colleagues across the school. This will help me to personalise their and others’ educational experience which is crucial if we plan on getting it right for all our students. By capturing this information across the school we will be able to build a profile of what is important to our students which ultimately will drive our programmes of learning and inquiry.
With this in mind, to make sure our students’ educational journey is as child centred, and inclusive as possible, we are asking you to complete the following survey about your child. It is very important to include a photo of your child engaged in something they love doing so that I can learn to know them by face in the online environment, and so that when we return to school, I will be able to connect with them in a more personalised way.
Please take time with your child to complete this survey over the weekend.
Thank you for your time, it is very much appreciated, and another step in keeping us as a school family working together.
Best wishes,
Laura Crawley
Lead Teacher of Curriculum for Year 3 and Year 4.
Dear Parents,
It is incredibly important in the online environment that we foster the time to nurture our students and connect with them. In the bid for me as their new Phase Leader to be accountable to your child's needs, it is important that I get to know your child so that I can help offer insight, and feedback, and track and monitor their learning with colleagues across the school. This will help me to personalise their and others’ educational experience which is crucial if we plan on getting it right for all our students. By capturing this information across the school we will be able to build a profile of what is important to our students which ultimately will drive our programmes of learning and inquiry.
With this in mind, to make sure our students’ educational journey is as child centred, and inclusive as possible, we are asking you to complete the following survey about your child. It is very important to include a photo of your child engaged in something they love doing so that I can learn to know them by face in the online environment, and so that when we return to school, I will be able to connect with them in a more personalised way.
Please take time with your child to complete this survey over the weekend.
Thank you for your time, it is very much appreciated, and another step in keeping us as a school family working together.
Best wishes,
Trudy McMillin
Lead Teacher Curriculum Year 1 & 2
Good evening,
It was lovely to see so many parents (and students) attend our webinars this evening. If you were unable to attend or would like to rewatch, you can access the recordings and the slides by clicking on the links below. These are also available on velocity under the relevant year group.
Year 1
Year 2-6
Slides
We will be available on this zoom link to support any ICT issues every morning this week at 8am.
Have a lovely evening and we look forward to welcoming the children to online school tomorrow.
Good afternoon SJS parents,
I hope you have had an enjoyable summer and your children are looking forward to the start of school.
Timetables are now live on velocity for the first week on online learning (Tuesday 11th August - Friday 14th August). You can access these by logging onto velocity, clicking on the year group for your child and clicking on the specific class timetable. These timetables are an overview of the live and offline lessons for this week. Our focus for the first two weeks is 'Learning to Learn' and reconnecting the children with their classmates and teachers.
We will be explaining our online learning approach tonight in our webinars:
Year 1 parents: with the school leadership team at 5pm. Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/98680805936
Year 2 - 6 parents: with the school leadership team at 6pm. Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/93871911550
The webinars will be recorded and posted on Velocity if you are unable to attend the webinars tonight. The school leadership team will also be running ICT support sessions every morning this week at 8am from Tuesday 11th August - Friday 14th August which are available are this link: https://zoom.us/j/97533889795.
We look forward to 'seeing' many of you tonight at our webinars.
Warm Wishes,
Lead Teachers of Curriculum.
Trudy McMillin (Y1 & Y2)
Laura Crawley (Y3 & Y4)
Paul Campbell (Y5 & Y6)
Dear Year 1 Parents,
In preparation for the beginning of learning next week, Group A: Tuesday 11th of August, and Group B Wednesday 12th August, we have put this document together to assist you in accessing and signing up to the main learning platforms used at SJS.
This document outlines the information you will need to sign in to each learning platform along with video guides and documents that will assist you in this process. If you have any further questions or difficulties accessing any of the platforms please contact the staff at SJS.
With Warm Regards,
Trudy McMillin, Laura Crawley and Paul Campbell
Lead Teachers of Curriculum.
Dear Parent
Welcome to the new school year – and thank you for downloading the ESF app.
This will be your school’s primary means of communicating with you from now on. You will be able to access a whole host of information about the school, receive important messages and look at your child’s own individual timetable, get information about home learning and so much more.
You should have received an email that included a link to the app user guide. In case you missed that, you can access it here https://www.esf.edu.hk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ESF-App-Parent-Guide-Aug2020.pdf
So that we can communicate with you in emergencies, please do not turn off notifications for the app on your device. You can control how and when you receive notification in the app itself.
As always, thanks for entrusting us with your child’s education. We will do everything we can to make sure that they are happy, kind, engaged and learning - so that they can be the best that they can be.
The ESF App Team.