b'Key School PoliciesFlexible Teaching and Learning:Daymap is the communication platform that Online Protocols students and many families are very familiar with. Whilst Daymap does not have a video The two main online forums at Seatonconferencing feature, teachers and students High School are MS Teams and Daymap. can engage in online discussions and question and answer sessions, and therefore, many of the Microsoft Teams (MS Teams) is an online chat- protocols below also apply to Daymap.based collaboration platform where students can post questions to each other or to the teacher,The following protocols will help ensure and share answers. This avoids teachers receivingeveryones safety, and the success of our teaching emails with the same question from all of theirand learning program.students, and having to respond to each student individually. Instead, the answers can be sharedOn-line Protocols:with the whole class, and students can see theMS Teams and Daymapquestions being asked and dont need to repeat a question that has already been posted. TEACHERSMS Teams is also the forum where teachers mayBefore a lesson, teachers will:conduct online lessons or video conferences. schedule online lessons as per the timetable These may be face-to-face in real-time or pre- for that subject, to avoid clashes with other recorded, so that students can choose when theysubjectsview the lesson.carefully consider the need and purpose of Just as there are protocols for appropriate conductonline lessonsin classroom discussions and for collaborativeadvise students at the start of each week of alearning, there are strict protocols for the use ofscheduled online lessonMS Teams. These protocols protect both the staff send lesson content or pre-reading in member and the student. Any student who does not use the online forum appropriately may beadvance, and will expect students to have blocked from the team until such time as they areengaged with this before an online lessonable to be a productive and positive team member. give clear start of lesson instructions (for Additionally, there is a range of consequences forexample, all microphones off, video on/off more serious breaches of the online protocols.(student choice), blurring of background).Our Behaviour Management Policy is built on the schools values of respect, responsibility and achievement, and disruption to the teaching and learning will not be tolerated, regardless of how the student is accessing the learning program.42 Seaton High School Information Handbook 2026'