To expect homework and revision to be put on Teams?

Wow. This is not a very nice comment. Passive aggressive. You have no idea what difficulties teachers have or how much extra work they have to do, or how many other parents want things for their child (and the teachers are teaching several classes each with 30 kids in.. just think about it).

Using Teams in a company with other adults who are likely all computer literate, using the same type of device and software is completely different to posting stuff for children who are accessing it from a wide variety of devices (phones, tablets, games consoles and a handful of laptops/PCs). It takes ages to make something compatible for everyone. You sound quite involved in your DC’s education but many children will be accessing homework alone and won’t have printers so work on Teams then creates more work for the teacher to help pupils use it.

Focus on working with the school to find a solution that works for your child, not one that adds to the already huge workload problem when you don’t have any insight into why what you’re proposing might not work.

Haven’t read the full thread, but what is your DC doing when they are out of class? If they are working on something else that is beneficial to their learning, then as a Support for Learning teacher I wouldn’t expect a pupil to complete homework for a class they hadn’t attended.

Some hideous comments on here from
those who have zero idea about teaching so it’s no wonder we are leaving in droves.

Teacher here. Imagine having say 9 classes and 6 hours a fortnight ‘free’. Each class has 2 to 4 lessons a fortnight. 10 min to add each piece. Teaches 44/50 hours. It. Doesn’t. Fit.

Well, it's also likely to be that it's the last week of public exams so a lot of schools will segue into year 10 and 12 exams at this point. And there are many SEN DC needing exam support from the SEN team. Plus of course the new batch of year 7s.

Realistically, year 7 are not the priority in June.

If you are not getting a response from the Sendco, that can be frustrating. Options are to call the school reception and ask the Sendco to call as you have not had a response to your email, or to email the form tutor and ask them to chase. I tend to email the Sendco and copy in the form tutor so if one is off or snowed under, the other may be able to pick up the issue.
If this is an ongoing issue with not getting a response, perhaps escalate - our school has a standard escalation pattern that goes something like tutor / head of year / deputy head / head. It can be frustrating when you get no response, but this could be because they are firefighting multiple urgent issues, or staff are absent. Or they could just be not very good at communicating!

Keep going - you.will eventually (hopefully!) find someone who can help.

@Riversideandrelax ,

What is your long term concern, leaving process aside?

Are you worried that she will get into trouble or fall further behind? Does she get stressed about it?

What subjects is it where she isn’t getting homework?

I would fully relax about everything for the remainder of this academic year and e mail her form teacher for Year 8, as soon as you know who it is, together with the SENCO. Try to arrange a meeting early next year with both of them.

A sympathetic form teacher can really help her get organised and chase other teachers up about prep.

I hope that is useful.

Fortunately for me DD is v sociable and will ferret out the info for me, plus I work at the school so will attack the problem from both ends while trying not to hack off too many colleagues.

4 parents is a great start! They will know other parents and you can build it.

For the love of all that's holy don't try for a whole year group WhatsApp unless you want to be back on here in September 😂

The person to make friends with would be the SEN admin person (the Keeper of the Extra Time Spreadsheet). Effusive thank you card maybe before end of school...

Surely if the Homework is on Teams, you do it. If it isn't on Teams, you don't. Sorted.
I would love to work in the schools where uploading files to Teams assignments (even opening the Teams app itself) was a work of moments...

For the record I have a ND child and fully expect to spend her year 7 WhatsApping other parents in desperate hope of a blurry worksheet photo. Who I shall repay by taking the kids places in school hols when they are working.

I think it's incredibly frustrating as a parent of an SEN child when very small easy things that would make school more accessible aren't done. I fully accept that despite my son's SEN being diagnosed and documented he will never get beyond token support as he is not very badly behaved and funding is so bad only those with the very highest needs actually qualify for support. But not uploading the homework to the VLE, or regularly giving out worksheets that are photocopied so small that its physically impossible for him to write in the boxes you have to write in, or being made to do work over and over again for poor presentation when the child is dyspraxic and can't do any better - thats all pretty crap. And yes I fully understand teachers at secondary teach hundreds of kids in a week. That the teacher shortage means many staff are teaching out of subject and so it's all more difficult and time consuming to plan. (Been there, done that, left like everyone else.) I am very sympathetic, but ultimately all those knocks really impact my child's school experience and mental health. I really really hope a change in government brings more education funding as I do worry if he will make it through secondary if things continue.

For the OP, lower your expectations a bit. Get it put in her IEP that the teacher needs to put homework on Teams or check its in her planner correctly. Inevitably not all teachers will read or remember the IEP and this won't always happen. But if she can't do her homework, don't stress about it and don't let her stress about it either. It's not worth it.

This sounds like sensible advice to me.

We're actually not allowed to use our phones (official policy). Although we have to or nothing happens.

I certainly couldn't upload homework as the WiFi's crap and nothing syncs.

Same in the NHS I believe. Although at least the Russians aren't trying to steal our data I suppose.

When were you in teaching? More than a decade ago? Imagine you still have the same computers...