Lockdown reflection 2021

 Lockdown reflection: 


What a crazy year it has been! With most of term 3 and 4 in lockdown, I have been blown away by the digital capabilities as well as determination and resilience of my learners. 

We had a really high percentage of learners from our hub attend all of their workshops. When term 4 started, we had noticed that our learners were lacking enthusiasm for online learning. They missed their friends and learning at home isn’t the same and we weren’t receiving as many follow up tasks as we would have liked. So we decided to change up our timetable and make it more fun. Some feedback from the learners was that they enjoyed coming online because they wanted to see everyone but got a little bit confused if they had back to back workshops and when was there any time to complete the follow ups. We decided to have a maths day and a literacy day (alternating) and add in a fun workshop with our guardian groups for playing games and sharing. I also added in an extra optional writing workshops for those wanting more writing time. This change was so successful. Learners seemed happier with it and we were seeing a lot more follow ups. 


In terms of my inquiry, the extra writing workshop was great and a couple of my target learners were keen to come along to those. I also made sure that my reading follow ups always included an element if writing to ensure they were still getting that writing mileage.





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