The Nature School's head of primary Catherine Oehlman said trying to keep students learning as they would while at school has been important during lockdown.

"It is an adjustment each time we have to change to learning from home, but we refined how we did it last time and have just slipped straight into it this time around," she said.

"It has been easy for the staff and students to adapt which has been really good.

"How we have adapted to learning from home is having a hybrid plan. Students have a weekly grid of activities they can do, we also have teaching videos to send students while also holding smaller zoom classes."

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The Nature school has also introduced kit bags for students which contain items they are able to utilise in their studies at home.

The bags are also reusable and help reduce the amount of material that would otherwise end up in landfill.

"We are very hands-on at The Nature School and our kit bags have material in them for students that fit with what they're learning about in each subject," Ms Oehlman said.

"For example, one class has potting mix and seeds in their kit while our Year 5 class is currently learning how to play the guitar and their kit included the instrument so they can continue their lessons from home."

Ms Oehlman said this approach to learning from home has been successful for the school.

"This is a very different set of circumstances for teachers, students and parents to adapt to," she said.

"We want to try and encourage students to not sit at a computer all day for school. There are so many ways to learn and having parents work from home while their children are also home learning can be difficult to juggle.

"The wellbeing of our students, staff and parents is the priority."

For Camden Haven High School, which has a number of students who attend via distance education, the move to all students learning from home has also been smooth.

"Because we did this last year, we have now fine tuned our system and created one platform for both our face-to-face students and our distance education students," relieving principal Sharon Westman said.

"Last year we were a bit all over the shop, but now we're being more consistent.

"The curriculum for both distance education and face-to-face students at our school align with each other which has made it easier to adapt to teaching all students remotely."

Although distance education students' lessons haven't been impacted by the lockdown, Ms Westman said it's important for all students to look after their mental health.

"Some of our distance education students are from areas where they have been in lockdown for a longer period of time and this has impacted their mental health and wellbeing," she said.

"We're catering for the needs of the students during this time and have been ensuring they have the access to what they need including lending technology to students if they need it.

"The students are resilient and the teachers are doing a great job as well as the parents who have also been assisting."

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