WPPA Seesaw guidelines
What it is for
- Strengthening home-school links by providing parents a window into the classroom, showing what the children have been working on via photographs and videos.
- Weekly updates on class learning.
- Reminders and information specific to each class or year group.
- Parents (and staff) to give feedback on a child’s achievements.
- Parents to send evidence (photos or video) of specific home-learning.
- Parents to ask brief/simple questions i.e. about missing clothing/class events.
- Parents to request a meeting or phone conversation with class staff.
What it is not for:
- Addressing issues, concerns or complaints regarding behaviour, emotional well-being, progress or attainment. These should be addressed via a face-to-face meeting or phone call.
- Communicating a child’s absence.
- Communicating urgent messages or information about collection/end of school arrangements. Please telephone the school office with this type of information.
- Seesaw will not be used by staff to send or receive posts or messages after 17:00 during the week or at all on the weekend or during school holidays. We cannot guarantee messages will be replied to during the same school day.
How Seesaw will be used in class:
- Staff will upload and send evidence of learning for individual children at least once a fortnight. Group or whole class examples of learning i.e. singing, will be in addition to this.
- Staff will support children to think about what they need to do to ensure that their learning is ‘wow’ and to be considered by the teachers/TA for sharing with their parents. For this to happen, children’s learning must demonstrate that it has clearly met the learning criteria/ their personal target or demonstrates strong personal progress.
- All classes will have a supply of laminated camera pictures on pegs, which children will attach to their work when they feel it is worthy of being shared with parents.
