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We are now only a few days away from beginning the new academic year with online classes. Our form tutors this year are: We are also pleased to welcome Mrs Jacqueline Rodd as a teacher in the English Department. Orientation for all students with form tutors will begin online at 0800 on Wednesday 2nd September. Google Classroom Our delivery platform for online learning is Google Classroom, and all associated Google apps (G Suite for Education), sometimes supplemented with Zoom. All our teachers have completed the Level 1 Google Educator course to reinforce the knowledge and skills needed to best organize and manage teaching and learning with their students. Book Distribution
Please note the following factors which will result in a student being turned away from book collection:
Online Learning/Bring-Your-Own-Device Following the revelation of the TCI Government’s 5-phased plan for return to school, the British West Indies Collegiate will begin its online classes for all students on Monday 7th September. The Minister for Education announced last week that online learning will proceed for all students until 2ndOctober.In Providenciales, all Lower School students (Years 7, 8, 9) will continue with online learning until the end of this first term. From October 2nd, Years 10-13 will participate in blended learning – a mix of online learning and classroom learning. It is intended that all TCI students will experience blended learning from January onwards; however, the government’s phased plan is subject to continual review. Parents/guardians will be interested to know our expectations for the type of device their children will need to participate successfully in our digital learning. Basically, while our youngest students could manage with a tablet capable of running Google Chrome, our older students, and most certainly those in our IGCSE and A-level classes, should be using a Microsoft Windows-based laptop. We do not recommend Apple products for the simple reason, apart from cost, that they are not entirely compatible with our system. Parents must be aware that a tablet, whilst highly portable, tends to have a short battery life and limited internal memory. If a tablet is provided for your child, it must be capable of saving files to the ‘Cloud’, and/or to an external memory device. The following pointers, suggested from the experience of other schools, may assist your choice of device:
The Collegiate has sourced a good tablet which meets the needs of our youngest students: Dragon Touch Notepad K10 Tablet, 10 inch Android Tablet, 2GB RAM 32GB Storage, Quad-Core Processor, 10.1 IPS HD Display, Micro HDMI, Android 9.0 Pie, 5G WiFi, Metal Body Black The cost (updated 31/8) of this tablet will be $140 ‘landed’. An initial order has now been made. Any further parent still wishing to order one of these tablets for their child should contact me ASAP. Needless to say, all digital devices and sundries are brought to school and used entirely at the owner’s risk. BWIC will accept no responsibility or liability for damage, loss, or theft, however caused. Uniform You are respectfully advised that school uniform will not be necessary for our students until they return to on-site classes, as directed, in January. All school orders made before the summer are on hold, and should be reviewed before the January return. As such, there is no need to enquire about uniform collections at this time. Email Addresses Many thanks to those who have informed me of missing or erroneous parent email addresses. These have now been added to the database. It is suggested that parents check their spam folder for missing messages, and whitelist our domain (@bwic.tc) and our mail distribution provider (sender.net) in their email address list, to be found in your email account settings, so that any future message of ours is not bounced or blocked. With best regards, |
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