Welcome Home, See I Made a Space For You Now
Even with the knowledge of all that has been put in place for children and young people to go back to school, and with the relief that we may have no longer needing to be both a parent and a school teacher at home, there will still be feelings of apprehension and uncertainty.
Schools will now have been in contact with you to let you know how they plan to resume at your child’s school and help you get prepared. Public health measures will be in place in schools, including encouraging people to stay home they’re sick, contact tracing, and hygiene requirements.
To help navigate this new period as your children settle back into school I’d like to recommend the “Ministry of Education Parents” page below, which has put together an excellent page full of well-being tips and info which gives some great guidance for children and young people heading back to school and well worth checking out.
M.O.E Parents Advice & Support Page
Life is currently in a time of transition for many of our families and whānau, as both work, school and family life come out of hibernation and return to the more familiar week to week routine.
When we do our It’s Your Move workshops in schools each year, preparing students for life in high school, we often focus their worries and concerns on the simple key word “communication.” Explaining that most of the things they describe as being worries are solved by communicating if there is a problem, communicating a plan and communicating when we don’t understand. Good communication needs to be the key tool to use for both parents and students, as they navigate the coming days and weeks back in the classroom.
“Welcome home, see I made a space for you now.” Dave Dobbyn
It was a wonderful reminder to me that our schools are indeed places of community, family, caring and support and I pray that as staff and teachers welcome their students back, they feel secure, safe and welcomed back home.