Teachers and learners look to technology to continue their academic plans

The learners and teachers of Auckland Park Preparatory School (APPS) are ready to take on the second term of the academic year as they continue to embrace remote online learning.

APPS will be ready for term two thanks to the intensive set-up plans made by staff to ensure that the girls would continue to gain from the teaching and learning taking place, even while seated in their homes.

Headmistress Brenda Howden expressed, “Lessons have not missed a beat and I am enormously proud of the way in which the girls and our teachers have taken to their online classrooms.”

The transition to online learning has been seamless for APPS due to their advanced IT skills. When lockdown was announced, armed with QR codes for the various subjects, girls walked out of the school gates excitedly and undeterred, knowing that they possessed the skillset to transition into this new school format, and eager to embrace the possibilities of this novel system.

Howden said, “School is so much more than the learning, and we are all undoubtedly missing our daily interactions with our girls. The shared smiles are still there, but somehow a screen is just not enough.”

The school has and will continue to rely on platforms such as ZOOM, the supportive role of the Seesaw app and a range of other preferred apps in the various subjects to keep teachers and their pupils connected. APPS is very confident in their ability to weather the storm created by Covid-19 on the education system.