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Internet Access for students who do not have Internet at Home

This is a copy of Tamsin's email: Hi everyone, This is the link for our families to register for a wireless modem if they don't have internet and meet requirements. More details below. Ngā mihi, Tamsin https://steppingup.nz/get-jump/   "Skinny Jump will be available to a wider range of people who find that cost is a barrier to having a broadband connection at home – including families with school aged children, job seekers, senior citizens, refugees, new migrants, people with disabilities and people living in social housing. The service is provided for $5 for 30GB of data (with the option to renew up to five times a month) and comes with a free Wireless Broadband modem. It is entirely prepaid, so there are no long-term contracts or credit checks needed, and all it takes to get set up is registering through a partner and plugging in the modem. While New Zealand is in Covid-19 lock-down, we are offering a remote self-service option.  If you would lik...

Emailing to Parents if you can't do so through Kamar

You may find that emailing to parents through Kamar (Printing/External Programmes/Send Text/Email) doesn't work with remote access from home. There is a list of parent emails on OC4Staff under the Covid-19 Support Tab, or click here . You can use the pivot table to bring up a list of parent emails attached to each of your classes. Copy the list for your class (or classes) and paste into an email. The best way to do this is to set up an email to yourself.  Then paste the list of parent email addresses into the bcc section of the email.  This way you are not letting all parents see each others' addresses - which would be a breach of privacy. Then type your email and send as usual.