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Seesaw

Seesaw is a core platform used across the Early Years and Primary School and within our Pathway 3 provision. Used globally in over 150 countries and widely across the US, it is a tool that joins together parents, students and teachers in one simple to navigate and use digital platform.
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Since we first introduced it at Dover Court International School, we have had 130,000 uploads to student journals and just short 145,000 family visits to those uploads. Each one of those has provided an opportunity to view students experiences in school in a more transparent manner than available previously.

Seesaw describes themselves as a “platform for student engagement” and a place where students can “create, reflect, share and collaborate”. With new features being added regularly, how students and teachers use Seesaw continues to evolve each academic year. Essentially, it is used as a portfolio of learning and experiences that students have across all subjects, with journal uploads coming from teachers or students. When planned in to a lesson or a unit of learning, Seesaw can also provide an opportunity for students to have a choice of how they document their learning, which can help to personalise their experience and allow them to utilize areas of strength.

Below is a summary of general use in different areas of the school and different types of upload you may see on your child’s journal.

Area of school

Journals

How it would be generally used.

Early Years

Class Journal

Teacher or TA uploads

Evidence of current themes or provocations being explored

Explanations of ‘in the moment’ observations

Years 1 & 2

Class Journal, Computing

Teacher, TA or student uploads

Explanations of ‘in the moment’ learning

Sharing of learning process

Used as a part of a learning activity

Sharing of understanding or end product of learning

Reflecting on learning

 

Years 3 - 6

Class Journal, Mandarin, Computing

Teacher, TA or student uploads

Explanations of ‘in the moment’ learning

Teacher, TA or student uploads

Explanations of ‘in the moment’ learning

Sharing of learning process

Used as a part of a learning activity

Sharing of understanding or end product of learning

Reflecting on learning

Pathway 3

Class Journal

Teacher or TA upload

Explanations of ‘in the moment’ learning

Evidence of the wide variety of experiences that students have

Learning Support

Separate journal

Teacher uploads

Showing learning in action

Explanations of learning so support can continue at home

EAL

Separate journal

Student, teacher or TA uploads

Examples of learning

Opportunities for students to show progress with language acquisition through audio and video uploads

Therapists

Separate journal

An opportunity to show examples of activities being done during sessions.

TYPES OF SEESAW POSTS YOU MAY SEE

Images or videos

These will provide a captured moment of learning or a learning experience. Teachers may also ask students to take images of work or a learning process in order to capture evidence, especially if it hasn’t been more formally captured in a text book. It is possible to upload up to 10 photos in one upload, which allows the opportunity to show a process of learning or a series of moments captured across a period of time.

Unit of learning explanation

At the beginning of each new unit, teachers may share an overview of the unit for students to refer to and as a source of information for parents. These will share the theme, an short overview and the conceptual lens’ which will be focused on during that unit.

Evidence of Learning

There may be occasions when Seesaw is used as the platform teachers ask students to show the result of their learning or as a time to share some learning with family. This may be through uploading a picture of written work, an upload from a piece of work completed digitally.

Activity

Within Seesaw, teachers are able to create a pre-determined activity and assign this to a class or individual students. These can include multiple pages and could be a template which provides specific places to insert text, drawing, photos, audio, or video. These are often visible in the Computing Journal, as many of the lessons resources and learning activities are set up in this manner.

As a parent, you get login access with the opportunity to view all journals your child or children are allocated to. Using the app or website, you can access multiple children’s accounts with one login once you have first been invited by the school. And, because all journals are linked using unique student IDs, all historical journals are also accessible.

Seesaw provides support for families for whom English isn’t their native language with the ability for written content on the app to be translated into the default language of the user’s device. There are links towards the bottom of the page to pages which answer some common questions that we get from families.

Seesaw Privacy

How do I control notifications from Seesaw?

Can we download journals?

Can we comment on journal posts?
(We have the ability to ‘like’ posts disabled, and any comments from students or families have to be approved by the teacher)