This week at school it was Samoan language week. To celebrate this in our school we were integrating the use of Samoan language into our lessons. Every day in my class we took the time in the morning to learn a variety of Samoan greetings, phrases and words for things such as colours, animals, and numbers. The children enjoyed this and I now hear them using it more often. These are some of the resources we used to support this teaching.

During Covid-19 we were pressed with the challenge of creating online learning tasks for our students and keeping in touch. In the first week after the school holidays I started by calling every parent in my class to check in and see how they were. In the second week I did individual zoom sessions with most children in my class, checking in, sharing news, playing games, just re-building the relationships. In the following weeks I continued with some individual zooms and group zooms as well as class zooms. We had a crazy hat zoom, bring your pet to school zoom, scavenger hunts and quizzes. I also did some reading, writing and maths lessons. Alongside these zooms I was also providing some online activities for the students to do for their learning (see below an example of 1 week). I enjoyed the lockdown and found I was connecting way more with some students and families, our relationship was maintained. There were a few students who I missed as they did not have the access to the on...