Keeping school running through lockdown
During Covid the owners repeatedly stress that school carried on from home without losing an hour, with full timetables and proper assessment. The dated operational notices are archive, not current advice. What lasts is the claim to agility and the later reflection on what the sector learned.
How it developed: Weekly operational bulletins in 2020-21 become in 2022 a critical reflection on lost lessons and the gap between schooling from home and online schools.
The thread's title and description are AI-written, drawn from the episodes below. The quotations are verbatim from the episode audio, each linked to the moment it was said.
What was said
“And the outcome for us is, doesn't matter what happens in the world, what happens with coronavirus, you are going to finish your curriculum this year, you are going to be assessed properly, and you are going to go to the next grade next year.”
“In fact, we haven't even missed a single hour of teaching since schools were closed,”
“We started schooling from home, and it was within 48 hours we had our kids going, and we haven't missed an hour of school, and they've, we've did full curriculum, face-to-face teaching, you know, all of that.”
“we gathered no data that would allow us to construct a risk assessment in the event of another national global crisis. So right now, our COVID legacy does not currently include a roadmap for future generations who come after us,”
“And our response to her was, your child's never done online school. Your child's done schooling from home. That's an entirely different proposition.”
“One thing I was very impressed with your school was like literally the day after they announced the lockdown, you guys took all of your students online immediately and kept it going.”
Episodes in this thread
- Covid-19 Shut Down, We've got this! 23 March 2020
- Covid-19 End of 2020 Term 1 13 April 2020
- Covid-19 Certainty, Agility, Flexibility and Dr. Taryn Gray 27 May 2020
- Budget 2021 and Covid-19 Learnings Applied 19 November 2020
- Ruthless curiosity, recreational obsessions and good views on gaming 24 August 2021
- Covid’s impact on independent education: a Kodak moment? 15 March 2022
- Our Headmaster joins SA People for a conversation 16 September 2022