A New Year – a new focus?
No-one would argue that 2020 wasn’t our usual year, with many challenges faced by all of us. In schools, we dealt with many additional responsibilities which normally lie alongside, but not within, our remit. With the dawn of a new year, will our focus be the same?
Will Snow Days Ever be the Same?
We all know that feeling, when winter has arrived and the weather has taken a turn for the worse. ‘Will it snow?’, we all ask ourselves. ‘Will we be snowed in?’ Students get excited that they have an impromptu day off, and staff are thinking they have time to do planning, relax a little, take a breath.
Snow Days: What's the Future?
Covid-19 has forced schools and pupils to be inventive in using technology. Could e-learning and homeschooling consign ‘snow days’ to the past – and should they?
What Staff Need
Following the difficult period that, dare I say it, we have all endured, the ways of working to which we have all become accustomed have changed, maybe irrevocably. Some of our processes and protocols have been the same since time immemorial and probably would never have changed without something as life-altering as our current situation.
Here are our pets who make working from home better
Sometimes the gloom of the day to day can be too much, and we all need a respite for a while.
Lets put the gloom of the current situation aside to highlight the support of KCS's staff pets!
Here are some cute photos to brighten your day!
How we are supporting Schools come opening Day
‘How are you, and how can we help?’ This is the question our Sales team has been asking to over 3000 customers a week.
Many schools have remained open for key workers children and we appreciate the difficulties teachers are now faced with, in adapting to never before seen changes to their working environments and personal lives.
Life without the commute and the impact on our wellbeing.
For many of us working life is defined by a journey. We may dream of a short walk or ride to the office, but for most the commute comprises travel by car, bus or train and, with the sudden move to working from home, a significant part of the day has now been stripped away.
Remote Working - The next stage
Week 6 – I have now, along with my colleagues and many others, been remote working for almost six weeks. At the start, I wrote about my optimism about this new way of working, communicating with colleagues and managing work-load. A few weeks on and I decided to ask myself if my feelings towards it have changed.
The highs and lows of remote working…
In the fourth week of remote working, I am starting to realise how much I take for granted on a day-to-day basis. I have come to realise how much I rely on the simple things that we all take for granted.