Category: Parent Resources - MRS PRIESTLEY ICT

Freebie of the week

8/1/2020

This weeks freebie of the week is this parent teacher conference meeting template. This can be used to assist teachers and parents with goal settings and questions when meeting parents in conferences.
This resource has six different template variations, depending on the wording you like to use. It has a space for goals, questions and other comments.

These could be photo copied with a copy given to parents for their hard copy, and also attached to their file or planning for you - the teacher. These are handy for all teachers looking to have successful parent teacher conferences with goal setting. Download this freebie below.

Parent/teacher conference templates

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Parent/teacher conference templates

These templates are great for parent/teacher conferences or meetings you are having. This could assist alongside reports and be used for goal setting, questions and comments. This could be copied and sent home with the parents, or kept just for your own copy to plan for next learning steps.

This comes with 6 variation headings:

family meeting goals
family meeting conferences
family meeting
whanau meeting goals
whanau meeting conferences
whanau meeting

This resource has 6 pages.

Seesaw parent and student cheat sheets

4/16/2020

There is nothing harder than helping parents and students use Seesaw without being around to actually help them. It is already hard enough doing online learning, but sometimes technology makes it even more difficult!
These cheat sheets were designed to help target key questions that parents and students have when using Seesaw. How to sign up, how to interact and how to navigate. For students it shows how to post to their journal too. Great to share with parents who might need a visual guide to help them navigate this new learning. Preview the sheets below and grab a copy on the link below.

Get a copy of the pdf here

Google help videos

3/25/2020

This week I did a facebook live video and there were lots of questions about software, apps and things for home learning. A few questions in particular were around Google calendar and appointments, so I created these two quick videos to help with those.

Home learning activities

3/25/2020

As schools may be closing and teachers preparing things just in case they close, I have created this quick activity sheet sharing 16 ideas students can do at home. You might see lots of these floating around, but this is another one you could share, print off or use with your families.

All these activities are at home based, easy, creative and gets students moving. There is also some template activities that parents could print to show their learning or evidence.

Download the pack here

Home learning timetable

3/24/2020

If your children are anything like mine then you will need to have a home learning timetable in place over this lockdown/home learning period. What better way than creating one together!

This template can be customised to have your own ideas, timing and timetable for your students. Simply make a copy of this timetable and add in what you need. Print it out or have it available for students to see and use. You could even add it to Google Keep or set reminders/alarms on Google calendar for your children to move to their next home learning session.

Teachers could use this template to help keep on track over the home learning period also - if you're looking to help stay on task!

make a copy of the template here

Finding your Seesaw home learning codes

3/24/2020

With school being closed across the world, Seesaw is a great way of engaging with students and parents. Seesaw has updated to include home learning codes - a way to have students use their already created Seesaw classes from home. They can upload evidence and complete work from home and share it with their teacher! You can comment and interact with your students like usual in this huge time of change.
Check out this quick video below on how to access and download those home learning codes.

Seesaw for parents

3/10/2020

Today I ran an after school workshop on Seesaw for parents. I have rolled it out with parents this week and wanted to ensure parents had enough knowledge and understanding to navigate the app, and know the purpose of it for us in the classroom.

This was a quick half an hour session talking through key things parents will need to know:

purpose
how it works
how to access it
commenting and their interaction
questions

Many of my parents in class signed up last night (once I sent the QR sign ups home) and spoke about how great it was to see into the classroom and what we are doing. My main aim at the moment is to increase parent engagement and communication with what we are doing in class and use Seesaw to share our learning with family members.

Want a copy of my slide deck to use with your parents? Click here for access!

Spelling ideas for Parents

5/18/2019

Some of my parents were asking for ways to help them with their child's spelling at home. I had previously made a video sharing some quick spelling tips for parents before; but found that some of my new parents didn't have access to Youtube.

So I created this quick pdf handout for parents that shares 7 quick ways they can practice spelling at home with their children. Some of these include:
-practicing out loud
-writing them on a piece of paper
-writing them in sentences
-writing them in alternate colours

Download a copy of the parent handout below or check out the youtube video for some more ideas.

spelling_ideas_to_help_at_home.pdf
File Size:	1128 kb
File Type:	pdf

parent help videos - spelling and word rings

12/31/2018

An area of my ICT leadership involves me looking at the community and ways that I can help meet the needs of parents. We use spelling words in a book and word rings in Year 0-2 and find that as we have many ELL (english language learner) parents we, as a school, need to think of ways to share ideas and information with them. The language barrier can be quite significant and make it hard for students to practice work at home if parents are not sure what to do.
I created these help videos on youtube to show parents easy activities that their children can do at home with their support. One video is on using their spelling words at home and the other on using their word rings. Have a look and share these with the parents in your class if you feel they are beneficial!

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