LFH eNews returns                                                                            28 May 2021

Thank you all for your patience as we return to remote and flexible learning, or as we call it, Learning from Home (LFH).

Although we hope to see all students back at school next Friday 4 June, we are reinstating our Learning from Home communication tools from 2020. Welcome (back) to LFH eNews, which  will again be used to relay important information to parents about remote and flexible learning at our school.

I want to reassure you that many of our staff were with us last year and are already familiar with LFH 2020. We feel confident in supporting your children over the coming days.

This morning at a Regional Principals meeting, we received an unqualified apology for the lack of communication from the Department of Education yesterday. Although we recognise this was a snap lockdown, schools and parents should not have to rely on the media for important information. As in previous lockdowns, I will let parents know as soon as we have any information that is useful or relevant to the community.

In the absence of any DET advice during yesterday, our teachers sent home Learning Packs with students. We had some of these materials ready in Term 1 and I want to thank teachers who completed those packs yesterday, so that your child would have some of the basic resources they need for next week.

Learning from Home (LFH) online resources

We are aware of the very large number of families who were not with us in 2020 and will be unfamiliar with the platforms and resources we had in place. On the basis of the strong support we received for those, we will be reinstating these resources, in stages. It is also important to provide the same level of communications to support new families in understanding how Learning from Home works.

All of our relevant LFH resources are on the school website in a password protected area. Today, we will email every family bilingual instructions on how to access the LFH online portal.

Over the coming days we suggest that you explore or refamiliarise yourself with the following pages:

• LFH passwords for parents
• Tips for printing LFH pages
• LFH for Parents – in particular, we suggest that parents read the Webex @ LPS page in readiness for future online classes.
  You will note there is also a 2020 LFH eNews Archive, containing all of the information circulated to parents last year.

If you click on a year level’s ‘Learning from Home’ tab at the moment, there will be nothing there. Our teachers are today putting together additional materials that will be uploaded for families to use following completion of your child's learning pack. We hope to have these ready for Monday.  

The Year 1 PLC team has a Professional Practice Day today, to work on some speech and language teaching strategies with our Speech Pathologist. This may impact the timeline for publishing these additional learning tasks.

As we've done previously, we will email parents when the year level LFH pages are ready for you to access.

In addition to preparing these materials, our teachers today will begin allocating individual online resources to your child. All students have taken home passwords for various websites and learning tools and the LFH passwords for parents page provides an overview of some of these.

Once these resources and LFH pages are ready for use, staff will be refamiliarising themselves with our Webex protocols. They will work closely with the staff who are new to the school to prepare them for using Webex with classes.

Onsite Attendance

Last night, DET schools received an updated Operations Guide. To qualify for onsite attendance next week, students’ families must meet strict requirements, which have been further tightened since the last lockdown. If you believe that both parents/carers are ‘Authorised Workers’ (another new term), with no other options for childcare, please email the school by 2 pm tomorrow (Saturday).

As the purpose of a lockdown is to limit adult movement, and the transmission of a potentially deadly disease, we will be absolutely adhering to the guidelines again.

The best way to get everyone back to onsite learning next Friday is to follow the rules, stay home and stay safe.

Until next time, take care everyone.

Kim