Surprised staff at Chatham Primary stepped over a riot of chalk-drawn love hearts and rainbows on their way through the school gates on Monday.
Students at Chatham Primary School in Surrey Hills surprised staff with thank you messages on Monday.School council president Kristy McIlvenna said parents had used messaging service WhatsApp on Sunday to organise the children to craft their messages and stick them up the night before teachers arrived for work on Monday morning.
Having started the remote learning period by putting together hard-copy learning packs for parents, teachers had graduated to holding WebEx sessions and producing instructional video clips for students and parents on digital learning tool Seesaw.“It’s just been phenomenal, particularly when they have had limited serious IT training and limited IT support provided by the department, so they’ve done an exceptional job in pretty tough times,” Mr Cotching said.