Remote working a success with teachers and pupils!
Something strange has happened to our schools and St. Joseph’s CBS is no different perched on the top of the town at Sunday’s Gate.
When the lock down started that the school doors were closed, we all wondered what would happen to the children’s education, when would they be back to restart the classes and the learning.
Well Ms. Bradley and her team of dynamic teachers took inspiration from Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The gates stayed closed, but the teaching restarted, reaching into the homes of every student, reaching further afield with open lessons for all the teachers of St. Joseph’s deployed the full armory of resources that the state could muster.
The juniors and the resource teachers teach their children through SeeSaw as a beautifully simple interactive platform. The senior group mainly used Google Classroom, but 5th used Zoom through the interactive Whiteboard.
All that technology, but does it work? Well the answer in St. Joseph’s case is that when combined with online meetings of parents and children, phonecalls and posted out hard copy work then YES! When asked, Ms. Bradley the School Princpal said “In St. Joseph’s CBS Primary we really encourage our teachers to build strong personnel bonds with the children they teach and their parents, we work closely with them to support them where and when needed.
These genuine relationships are the corner stone of our success and the various online platforms that we use to deliver our teaching are all based on our connection to the community.” From a small bit of research, it is clear that St. Joseph’s wears its community pride on their school blog which must be the most active blogsite in Drogheda, with the exception of The Faa Side.
The view from this side of the ditch is job well done to the girls and boys in St. Joseph’s Sunday’s Gate.