Held@Home is looking for opportunities to help those affected by the consequences of Covid-19. At this moment we have had the opportunity to support a school. Due to the lockdown and the fact that schools have been closed for a long time, it is difficult for many children to properly pick up online and home lessons.
Especially children who had already fallen behind or who find regular lessons difficult due to circumstances now fall between two stools.
So are the children we can help. These children have not been in the Netherlands for very long and do not yet have a good command of the Dutch language. Online lessons are not an option and they often do not have internet or a laptop at home, so it is impossible to teach these children via the internet.
It is a major challenge for the teachers to teach the children at school. Especially if the teacher or teaching assistant themselves have been affected by the virus. The result is often that a very small team is worked, which means that there is little time for attention for the child and teachers become overworked more quickly.
Held@Home has offered to help. In good consultation and taking into account all Corona rules, we will support the teachers one morning a week. This means reading with the children and playing games in small groups so that they gain a better command of the Dutch language while playing.
Held@Home will invest one morning a week in these children in the coming period so that they can hopefully make up for a little bit of the backlog and the teachers will be spared a bit of work pressure.
(Due to privacy no pictures of the children posted).
