Sam and Olivia are both 6th grade teachers at Chesswood Junior School in Worthing, Sussex. While Sam has been back to school with her class for half a semester, Olivia continues to work from home as she has to take extra precautions due to an illness. They gave an insight into their last semester weeks in a video diary …
Olivia
I have been working from home since March and teach remotely because I have type 1 diabetes. It was a strange time to say the least! I work and live in the same room, which has brought some challenges.
I managed to do video courses and communicate with the kids online, but I really missed being in the classroom! It has been particularly difficult to be separated from them in the past few weeks and I would have liked to have had the opportunity to say goodbye to my class before going to secondary school. But I enjoyed the challenge of teaching from a distance and found it a positive experience. And I was even able to say goodbye to all of my students virtually, wishing them all the best before going to secondary school.
Sam
After half a semester in May I was teaching again in the sixth year and had 24 of 31 children in the classroom. It was a little different, but the kids and I really enjoyed being together.
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In the last 6 weeks of the semester, I taught them in two 12-blisters – I worked with a teaching assistant who is in one blister, and I am in the other blister. It worked very well and for some of the basic subjects, I’m going to call the other classroom in Microsoft Teams so I can teach both bubbles at the same time. We did a lot of transition work with the kids who talked about their concerns and fears about transitioning to high school. And of course we have planned a lot of great celebrations to mark the end of their elementary school years before they leave us to go to high school!
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