Virtual Comments

Keeping up the Positives

• Actively contribute, and work collegially, in the pursuit of improving my own and organisational practice, showing leadership, particularly in areas of responsibility.

During the time in lockdown and distance learning, I tried to think of ways that I could keep some of our school initiatives to support wellbeing and connectedness being maintained.  

To support our learners, give specific feedback and positive reinforcement, I created Virtual Fish Tickets.  These were used in a similar way that we do at school but looked way better because I could use a gif to make them more appealing to students.  I shared the template with staff and it was great to see that these were also being used and celebrated by most teachers.
The thing I liked about these was that you could personalise the Bitmoji and be specific about what students were getting them for.  You could also highlight the value they had shown.  
During the lockdown, I wrote and gave out about 250 of these virtual fish tickets.  
Feedback from students was positive and on our return to school, some could be heard in conversations about how many they had received.

For Staff

As a staff, we have a wall in the staffroom with named kete that we use to keep up the positives, give compliments, show thanks and aim to make someone's day.  During the lockdown, I created Google Drawings for different staff members and shared them with them.