Learning never stops @
King’s College India!
Surjeet Singh
Deputy Headmaster / Officiating Headmaster,
King’s College India
Kings
College India started its Academic Session 2020-21 in digital mode on 13th
April 2020. The unprecedented world events did not faze pupils and teachers as
our virtual learning platform was packed full of engaging content to spark
curiosity and continue learning. It was great to see the children enthusiastic,
inquisitive, and excited to return to school, albeit in this new way.
The school designed its own online learning platform and learners of all ages starting from Early Year School, Junior School, and Senior school taking lessons using this new learning platform. Teachers are using this tool to successfully facilitate the delivery of the curriculum. Both the learners and the teachers have adapted quickly to this new method of teaching-learning and already there have been so many great results!
School is following an online
regular time table to enables students to have a regular school day from the
safe comforts of their homes. Teachers are providing adequate learning support
to the students. Teachers are working from home and creating and sharing
worksheets and video lessons and also engaging the students via video
conferencing. Teachers are sharing the work and activities for the day with the
students and parents and the same students are completing and sending back to
the teachers on agreed deadlines.
Students and teachers can do
everything possible from this platform including marking attendance, attending
classes, connecting on video conference, joining google classrooms, submitting
their homework etc. This platform has all information about classes, weekly
timetable, links to attend the classes, Google Classroom, Google Meet, homework
submission folders, teaching-learning resources, curriculum overview etc.
Teachers plan their lessons and put
it on the platform and then take video conferencing sessions to explain the
students on how to go about it. Every lesson is designed in steps, so it is
easy to follow and understand. And if any student is not able to attend the
class, they can still have access to the resources even after the class and
parents can help the student to revise. Students can learn at their own pace.
It is an easy platform for online
teaching and learning. All students and teachers are very comfortable working
on this now. All the classes for all the subjects from Pre Nur to Standard 12
are running smoothly. The decision to conduct classes online proved to be a
milestone during this lockdown period. Parents and students are supporting and
appreciating this initiative. This way, together, parents and teachers are
ensuring that learning never stops in any situation for the students. We look
forward to continuing to do this while the situation across India and the world
is in constant flux. King’s College India wishing good health and safe
self-lockdown to all. We pray that our country comes out of this pandemic very
soon.
I take this opportunity to thank all
our teaching and admin staff for supporting us to make this online learning a
success. My special mention and thanks to Academic Leadership team of King’s
College India:
Ms. Tansy Troy – Head EYFS
Ms. Claire Whyte– Head of Junior School
Ms. Shahila Hussain– Key Stage 3
Coordinator
Ms. Minakshi Mann– Key Stage 4
Coordinator
Mr. Dushyant Bafna – Key Stage 5 Coordinator and Cambridge Examination Officer
Parents’ Testimonials on KCI Virtual
Learning Sessions:
EYFS:
Patents of Rapunzel Saini – Pre-Nursery
Overall,
the experience has been very satisfactory. Rapunzel has been enjoying her
weekly activities and has faced no difficulties in accessing the
platform. I can see all the effort that has been put into the teacher’s
weekly plans which reflect in all the videos and worksheets they upload for the
benefit of our children. All resources have been extremely useful during this
learning process online.
I
would like to say a special thank you to all the wonderful teachers of Kings
College India, I feel extremely proud that my child is in such an amazing
school that truly cares about all their students especially in a time like
this. Teaching staff have been professional at all times and have always
answered immediately to any inquiries I had.
Patents of Devangi - Phoenixes (UKG)
Our child has learnt a lot these past few weeks through the online learning platform. All the resources uploaded have been extremely useful to us and fromplatform. The YouTube videos, downloadable worksheets and the teacher’s weekly planning schemes, in general, have been of much use to us since it has kept our child engaged in all the lessons.
Patents of Verusha Sanewal – Phoenixes (UKG)
On
average our child has been doing around two hours of screen time and 3 hours of
practical learning which is a perfect amount of time to keep her engaged
productively. Greatly satisfied with the teachers and the way they go about
things.
JUNIOR SCHOOL:
Patents of Meera – Standard 2
We
are very satisfied with the way the online classes have been going on. Meera
has been keeping up with her work and learning a lot. We are especially happy
with Ms. Sheetal’s classes and her method of teaching as the children are very
interactive with her. Classes such as Literacy and Math prove to be very
useful, we also agree with the idea of having PE classes daily, that would be
nice for the children.
Patents of Inaya Bansal – Standard 2
We
would like to say a special thank you to all the teachers of King's College
India. Google classroom has been very helpful and our child is learning a lot
through this platform especially Math and Literacy.
Parents of Lavanya Gandhi- Standard 3
The
KCI learning platform has been extremely useful so far, we are very satisfied
with the planning of the classes. Our daughter is taking around five classes
per day starting at 9:00am and finishing at 1:00pm which is the perfect amount
to keep her engaged and immersed in her learning. Subjects such as Literacy,
Math, ICT and Science are extremely useful subjects and we are pleased she can
keep up with all the work without any interruption in her learning
process.
Parents of G. Shailja – Standard 5
It
has been a fantastic learning experience for Shailja, keeping her so
energetically engaged throughout the sessions. We are indeed very satisfied
with the work that has been given so far as well as with this new learning
platform. She is enjoying learning Literacy, Math, Science and French. Thanks
to you all for your wonderful work and efforts.
SENIOR SCHOOL:
Parents of Utkarsh Goel- Standard 8
It
is very easy to login to the learning platform which makes the whole experience
very productive and useful. The resources available have been helping our son a
lot with his studies especially the website links, downloadable sheets and the
whole teacher’s planning lessons, in general, are extremely worthwhile.
Furthermore, whenever we faced a problem, the teachers of KCI were more than
happy to help us with any issues we faced. As the current lessons are going so
well, it would be great if we could increase the number of lessons per day.
Parents of Zoya Hussain – Standard AS Level
The
online learning platform has been extremely useful. It is making our child’s
online schooling time productive. Zoya does around three hours of screen time
followed by three hours of practical learning which allows a good daily time
balance. Keep up the good work!
Parents of Yash – Standard A Level
It
has been very easy to access the platform; we have had no struggles with it
whatsoever. Additionally, the resources available have been very helpful to our
son. We are all aware that the school is trying hard to manage these online
sessions and we truly appreciate it. It would be great if more classes could be
incorporated as they are all going so well and our children are benefiting from
it.
