This year the Middle School Open House night will be hosted virtually using Zoom. Historically, Open House is a wonderful evening during which parents typically come onto campus, visit their child’s classrooms, and get to know the teachers. Unfortunately, this year, we are not able to meet physical distancing requirements and have 600-800 parents on campus. As such, we will host our Open House “virtually”.
The MS Virtual Open House will take place on Thursday, 6:00 to 8:10 PM, BKK time, as scheduled. Parents will visit Zoom session hosted by each teacher, according to their child’s schedule, starting with Advisory and then progressing through the periods 1 to 8.
- Each session will last 10 minutes.
- There will be 5 minutes between sessions so that parents have time to transition between the Zoom links, stand up and stretch, and ensure no overlap between classes.
- Teachers will host the Zoom sessions live, but may also include some pre-recordings to give you a sense of their classroom space, curriculum, or learning goals.
Before Thursday, parents will receive an email from us for each child, with that child’s specific schedule, the timings for the night for each Zoom session, and the Zoom links to click in order to “attend” each class. This email will also include a welcome video from us in the MS Office explaining the process and preparing you for Thursday night’s virtual event.
We will be asking teachers to stick to a strict time schedule in order to ensure that parents can make it to the next session without missing anything. This means starting and ending on time (according to a school server clock) for each scheduled session. We are synchronizing our clocks to ensure we’re all on the same times.
Please be on the lookout next week for our Open House email and block off the time to join our Virtual Open House on Thursday night.