As you can probably imagine, having a number of students in the classroom using computers can be quite a noisy affair. Inevitably research work takes students to videos and most literacy and numeracy activities have sound effects.
We have been providing each class with headphones. This overcomes our noise issue, but opens a new dilemma – hygiene. We clean the headphones regularly, but disinfectant and electronics don’t mix well and it isn’t possible to clean them between every user.
In talking about this issue, with a number of parents, it became clear that many people have a spare set of ear buds that came with a newly purchased phone at home.
If you share our concern about hygiene, we would welcome your child having their personal ear buds/head phones. It would be preferable that these be small enough to keep in a pencil case and it would be essential that they are clearly labeled (coloured tape folded and name securely attached).
If you don’t have a spare set at home, they are very cheap at local IT stores such as Banana IT, http://www.bananait.com/home.
Ideally the devices brought in would have sound and microphone (as do the telephone ear buds).
Thanks for your support
Karen Cornelius
Deputy Principal
