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A Classroom Safety Tour

Hi Division 11 Families and Students,

Welcome to our blog!

In a normal year, you would be able to come inside our classroom, see where your child works and plays, and have regular conversations with teachers. It’s so much harder to do that when families must stay outside, we must wear masks, and we have to do the daily health checks in the mornings instead of having conversations.

Hopefully this blog will help us feel more connected! We invite you to check out our classroom, see videos and pictures of your child, their work and evidence of their learning. We hope to post links to different websites and learning activities to support their learning if we have to go online as well.

A tour of our classroom…

At Maywood, we are STAR Learners!

S – Safe       T – Thoughtful      A – Accepting      R – Respectful      LEARNERS!

In September and October, we were focusing on SAFETY – following careful cleaning routines to make sure that everyone stays safe and healthy. Please do the daily health check with your child at home, and to protect everyone, keep your child at home if they have any symptoms.

After we do the health check we go inside and line up on the stars, keeping 1m apart. The teacher sprays water and foaming hand soap on our hands so we can start 20 seconds of washing right away.

Then we rinse at the sink, one at a time. Then we walk to the hand drying station, 1m away.

We wash our hands at least 8 times per day, usually 10-12 times. It takes a lot of time. Sometimes we use hand sanitizer to save time, but not very often. We use it when we go to the gym, music room or library where there are no sinks.

We aren’t using the cloakroom, so backpacks and coats are stored on our chairs. We can’t share anything, so everyone has their own box for pencils and markers, for books, and for math tools.

 

Only 2 people are allowed in the washroom at one time. The water fountain is closed, but you can still fill your water bottle there (or at the classroom sink). Please make sure you have a water bottle at school. If you forget, Mrs. Aprim will give you a cup that you can fill at the sink.

Another way we can stay safe is by wearing a mask. Adults in the school wear masks all the time. Some friends in our class wear masks all the time, some friends wear them sometimes, and some friends don’t wear masks. While we don’t have to wear masks, it is a good idea to have a mask with you – please encourage your child to wear/bring their mask every day.

In Div. 11, we encourage students to wear masks:

  • in the hallways where lots of students are walking
  • in music class where they are singing with the Music teacher who sees lots of students
  • when it is math groups with Ms. Stevens’ class (our safe learning cohort)
  • when they work closely with their table partner at centres or math times

We can take our masks off safely when we are outside. We often work in the garden at Maywood, where we have cleaned up an outdoor space that we can use as an outdoor classroom. The fresh air and open space helps keep us all safe as we learn and work together.

 
Please make sure that your child is dressed for the weather, with a warm coat (preferably waterproof) and boots or an umbrella for those very wet days. A change of socks and pants are also very helpful! 🙂
Let me know if you need outdoor gear for your child as I have a few items that they can borrow.
Thanks, families!

4 Comments

  1. Eva

    Thank you very much for taking pictures and posting them for us parents. I have been very curious about how the classroom looks like, how my son is learning at school etc. I really appreciate this very much. It puts smile on my face to see my son in one of those pictures as well. Thank you again for all your effort and hard work to keep our children safe!

  2. Zamir - Father of Zaid Gori

    Thank you very much for sharing this information. Appreciate everyone in the school for making the classrooms safe for all !!

  3. Christopher

    Thank you All the Teacher of Div 11. Christopher and I appreciate your hard work . I was wondering how they are doing inside . It is because we can not going to see them than before But I feel great now to see the post showing us all the cares that you have with our kids thanks so much . God bless all the teacher and students.❤️👋😁

  4. Juliana

    Thank you so much for the pictures and the information you shared. Really appreciate all the hard work and care, and for keeping everyone safe at school during this new normal. 👸😍

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