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ro and regional areas are back at school there are no restrictions on movement for melbourne folks within victoria they are now free to travel to regional victoria we are learning to live with covid 19 people who are not double vaccinated cannot enter many businesses and organisations school is returning to a covid 19 normal atmosphere however the last day for our year 12 students was the first day back for all other students so it is just so hard to believe that our school year will finish in 6 weeks time so much of this second semester was spent in remote learning years 3 12 students now need to wear masks inside and initially outside this has caused angst amongst some including parents but as i teach grade 3 4 most students seem to be coping with this and are far more compliant younger students are encouraged but not mandated to wear masks however since friday the mandate is for inside the classroom only many of the older students are reluctant to wear masks in the appropriate manner often the masks do not cover the nose or mouth they find them uncomfortable and difficult to breathe in as do many of us since friday masks only need to be worn outside for all victorians if in crowded places or where social distancing is not possible if vaccination status is known then numbers of patrons at restaurants and cafes have also increased if status unknown then only 10 are allowed inside a restaurant and 20 outside the rules keep changing and it is difficult to keep up with them all international flights are opening up again but state borders are still closed to nsw and victoria however we can travel freely to nsw and vice versa leave a comment posted in covid19 remote learning restrictions lifting even further in victoria posted on october 27 2021 by murcha leave a comment all students have finally returned to school on friday of last week they came back in staggered stages years 12 and 11 who were studying vce subjects for 2 weeks before the end of last term together with prep to year 2 students there was a 2 week holiday break and the same students returned for the first week or term 4 on week 3 year 7 students returned full time with years 3 4 and 9 coming back on tuesday and wednesday and years 5 and 6 and year 10 on thursday and friday this was rather difficult to manage as i teach all year levels from year 3 through to year 12 it meant a mix of face to face remote and hybrid learning as my year 9 10 class is a composite class so half were at home and the other half actually at school we were continued to teach from home where possible and come in to school when our classes were face to face ms teams continued to be used when i had a hybrid class i would connect my laptop to the large monitor in the classroom call a teams meeting with all students logging in to the team problems occured when i played music for them to enter the class as although i shared the sound through teams it came out of the monitor speakers for my class this meant the remote students could not hear the music students in the actual classroom had to be muted or feedback occurred numbers became erratic in the last few weeks as disengagement became increasingly obvious especially amongst the years 9 and 10 students year 5 and 6 could choose to come to ict classes as they occurred in the afternoon but as they had spent the morning on computers we were very aware of not forcing them to attend the afternoon and reduce screen time numbers were low most times with most opting not to attend year 3 and 4 commenced using ms teams during the last couple of lockdowns and this seemed to work well with the younger age group it is certainly better to have some live interaction with the teacher for a part of each school day rather than parents trying to cope with living working at or from home and trying to help their children with their school work for the whole morning leave a comment posted in covid19 remote learning a day to celebrate on many sides posted on october 22 2021 by murcha leave a comment hay bales block the school driveway note tractor in background used to bring haybales to school today was a special day on many counts after nearly3 months of remote learning and some hybrid learning students all returned to school at the one time after being staggered back to school year 11 and 12 students returned 1 week before our spring holidays 6 weeks ago on a full time basis as did prep to year 2 students over the last 2 weeks years 3 and 4 8 and 9 returned on a tuesday and wednesday whilst years 5 and 6 returned on a thursday and friday in that same 2 weeks year 7s returned full time confused this was difficult and confusing for me and most other staff and required great concentration as to who was at school and when classes still continued remotely and on a hybrid basis when students werent at school this was in regional victoria melbourne schools start back today for the same students it was the last official day for year 12 students who are about to sit their final vce exams this group has spent 2 years of vce dealing with remote learning and the pandemic this is always a day for celebration and very fitting that all students and staff were actually at school melbourne finally came out of its long hard lockdown after nearly 3 months 77 days it is said that melbourne has endured the most lockdown days in the world regional victoria had some restrictions lifted including being allowed to have 10 visitors in our homes only in a country school would large hay bales block the driveway to the school on the last day for year 12s with the tractor that brought them parked at the front gates a painted cow was placed on the top of tables in the canteen balloons adorned the corridors with streamers being popped at students as they alighted from the buses face to face school assemblies and staff meetings are not permitted at the moment so our final assembly with year 12 students was held using ms teams they shared a presentation featuring photos of themselves as young students through to current photos our school principal s speech thanked the students for their contributions to the school the school captains presented their speeches an amazing cake was baked and decorated by one of the year 12 students with the help of her mum texta pens with edible ink allowed staff to add their greetings congratulations and messages to the students sicky notes made of icing were placed around the base of the cake an applefor the teacher topped the cake these students have never complained about their pandemic experiences although remote learning and isolation has had a big impact on their emotional well being we wish them all the best both for their final exams and for their future some vce students dressed up for the day leave a comment posted in covid19 tagged last day for vce students during covid lockdown lifts in melbourne ms teams for online school assemblies ms teams for remote learning programming day sept 13th posted on september 13 2021 by murcha leave a comment so many teaching ideas come from looking at the site days of the year celebrated around the world sept 13th has many things to acknowledge including roald dahl day a number one author for children s books however for my ict subjects it is interesting to see that it is also programming day as we are in remote learning we will do the following activities to acknowledge them listen to code anthem a song on code or java script rap as students entered the ms teams live meeting walk through the days of the year for september 13th watch roald dahl and the trailer on the witches by roald dahl on flipgrid looked at the days commemorated on the weekend which included 20 years since 9 11 sign up for code org complete the dance party challenge https code org dance after watching the introductory video keep on dancing at https studio code org s dance extras 2019 lessons 1 levels 1 or flappy game at https studio code org flappy 1 or any other of the options at the bottom of https code org hourofcode overview reflections on the success of this lesson i tried this with year 7 and 9 and 10 the 9 10 students enjoyed the rap songs and were quite interactive in their knowledge of 9 11 this was a topic of high interest to them they were interactive in the chat talking about the roald dahl books that they had read and the movies that they had seen year 7s really enjoyed coding the dance party i enabled them as presenters and some showed the dance moves that they had created to the rest of the class by sharing their screens here is an example of one of the student s dance party coding year 9 10 one of the students at home had trouble with level 9 of the dance party i asked him to return to the live meeting where one of the boys who is new to our school and just come out from new zealand was actually learning at school i was home to my amazement harby who was at home shared his screen with me i was home and matthew who was at school and matthew pointed out the errors in his programming stepped him through with harby successfully completing the whole course such wonderful collaboration on a remote scale leave a comment posted in covid19 remote learning tagged covid 19 covid29 classrooms ideas for remote learning rap songs roald dahl day a fun lesson posted on september 3 2021 by murcha leave a comment morale and engagement has been low amongst both staff and students since the announcement two days ago that we would be remaining in lockdown for possibly up to 2 more months if this happens melbourne will be the longest locked down venue in the world the delta covid 19 virus has increased our daily numbers remote learning will continue on for my year 7 and 8 ict class i decided to just do some fun things my grandchildren had shown me guess the movie in emojis on youtube after talking about special days around the world students used the chat of ms teams live meeting to share the last movie they watched i then played this video from youtube i paused a little longer before the answer was given on youtuve to give me a chance to see what they had guessed in the chat one student asked if they could use their microphone before i could say no i started to hear excited chatter amongst the students all using microphones trying to work out which movie they were even my quietest of students were providing a voice i felt like i was back in the face to face classroom i am sure the students did too they could hear each other work together efficiently etc it was a great activity and i will remember that microphones on simultaneously can connect us all in powerful ways when online students then created three of their own guess the movie in emojis and shared in posts in the ict team leave a comment posted in covid19 remote learning tagged fun lessons for remote learning guess the movie in emojis remaining connected during online learning remaining connected during remote learning lockdown 7 0 posted on august 23 2021 by murcha leave a comment staff and students returned to school for term 3 covid 19 seemed under control in victoria at this stage however cases were appearing in nsw i was fortunate enough to go to melbourne with year 11 students and our assistant principal in order to comply with covid safety our accommodation had to provide a separate space for us as we could not share any common facilities with other school and community groups the hotel claremont was able to guarantee this there was another school group but we were in separate wings and had separate breakfast times with the dining area being thoroughly cleaned out between each group sitting we had a great time in melbourne it appeared as safe as it possibly could be here is some of what it looked like tap on tap off myki cards hand sanitize check in with qr codes at all entry points assure the covid marshal that we complied hand sanitize again maintain social distancing stay in our bubble at our accommodation navigate trains trams and buses etc these activities became part of the daily routine for our year 11 melbourne experience students a rather different one to the annual melbourne work experience students were kept busy with a variety of activities that took up the whole day and well into the night these included taking a ride on the melbourne star watching space jam a scavenger hunt through the streets of melbourne ice skating a swim at msac a night walk down lygon street a tour of la trobe university time to explore northlands laser tag indoor rock climbing bounce and the comedy club time to explore the victoria market or shops at spencer street was given on the morning prior to departure due to media updates the increasing number of hot spots etc students returned home a day earlier in hindsight this was a valuable call as a snap lockdown was declared as we alighted the train at 5pm in warrnambool this was thursday the lockdown started at 8pm in the past it would be 11 59pm lockdown 6 0 was to last for 10 days or so friday was given to schools and teachers to prepare for the lockdown remote learning formally commenced on the monday after to our complete and utter surprise it was announced the regional victoria could return to school on the tuesday as the covid samples detected in sewage in wangaratta was a false reading metro victoria melbourne were to remain in lockdown this so sudden return to learning did our heads in as we had psyched and prepared ourselves for a minimum of one weeks remote learning or more four weeks were then spent back at school but numbers in melbourne escalated despite tight restrictions and a covid case appeared in shepparton on friday s numbers we knew that if a regional case was found it would most likely lock all regional victoria down students were recommended to take their devices and books home with them at the end of the school day as it was a friday a lot could happen over the weekend however news filtered through that the single case had grown to 10 or so that friday afternoon the news told us that cabinet was meeting harsher restrictions would be in place and a media conference held on friday morning at 11 am it was announced that regional victoria was in full lockdown from 1pm on this gave 2 hours warning as we were in port fairy for a meeting i quickly joined our son his wife and grandchild for a take away meal at the beach watching the ocean roll in the day was quite warm and sunny by 12 50pm there was little sign of anyone anywhere shops and restaurants were closing etc this lockdown is our toughes yet teachers now need permits to go to school the rules surrounding students who attend school has also tightened up with permits required for essential worker students to attend morale is low as our vaccination rate is still not very high we need to reach 70 to 80 to experience fewer lockdowns but that could be december based on the numbers that we have now and the probable need for children to be vaccinated children are now catching covid...