Connecting parents, recording & reflecting on learning with Seesaw

Seesaw has been set up for the purpose of keeping parents and whanau up to date with their child's classroom learning and progress.  A great forum for also delivering newsletters and requests.  We can now private message a connected parent as well.

A safe place for children to post and comment and practice their digital citizenship skills.  In term 2 we will introduce the blog, its purpose and hopefully connect to other schools to develop an authentic audience.

Our biggest challenge is getting more than 42 of our 60 parents connected to their child's accounts.  The next step would be to try sending email invites out.  Paper copies have gone home two times.  Also, trying to catch these parents at mid-year conferences.

Click on the Seesaw image to view our classroom posts.

click on the image to link to the Whanau Seesaw account

Parents are also keep up-to-date with regular newsletters and use of social media (Rakaia School Facebook page).

Example of our team newsletter to parents: