What is Seesaw?
Seesaw is an online learning platform that increases academic achievement and builds powerful home-school connections; centred around student learning. It has intuitive and open-ended tools to allow students to go from consuming to creating in any subject and to create a learning portfolio that grows over time, capturing a child’s unique learning journey.
How does Seesaw support learning?
Seesaw supports students’ learning across the curriculum. It offers students the chance to demonstrate and record their learning through interactive and engaging activities that have been skillfully designed by our experienced teachers.
Students use creative tools to take pictures, draw, record videos and more to demonstrate their knowledge in a particular area. Students are able to record their voice on Seesaw, which allows teachers to gain an insight and understanding of each student’s thought process, and not just the end result.
Seesaw is also used to support our specialist subjects, including Bahasa, Mandarin and music. Our language teachers really like the speaking, listening and reading practise the voice recording function offers, with teachers being able to pre-record and model spoken language when setting Seesaw activities.
In music, teachers and children record and listen to one another’s singing and other musical compositions and have the opportunity to offer helpful verbal and written feedback. In PE and Swimming, Seesaw has potential for children to self-assess their technique, taking photos and videos of their performance and analysing their own and other’s skills.
How can it build a powerful home-school connection?
With Seesaw, families can see and support their child’s learning regardless of language spoken or device used at home. Up to ten family members can view and experience a child’s learning journey throughout the school. Parents can be assured in the knowledge that Seesaw is a safe and secure system that only the teacher, child and designated family members can view. This creates a relaxed and comfortable environment where family members can experience their child’s learning; create that home-school connection and use text or voice recording to give supportive feedback.
Also enabled on our Seesaw system are our class blogs where children can share their work, and wider out of school experiences and achievements with other members of the class. Teachers control and regulate this content, and it provides another safe space where children can develop their sense of community and learn skills that help them safely navigate their digital world in the future.
