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howrudeforme · 19/04/2020 19:16

The few weeks before the Easter break seemed to me somewhat disorganised. Thought it might change from tomorrow but I’ve already had a few messages with work for DC and think they’ll continue as before.

The school doesn’t ask kids to register their presence in any way. Teachers use email/the school portal /texts/ twitter to set tasks. The subjects are random and don’t follow their timetable yet some teachers,instead of adding a deadline, just say when your next class would be due (😳 - they’re on a two week timetable and I doubt if the teachers even know where we’re at).

I’ll be on a work call and school will tweet a link and passcode for a ‘live’ session - I have to shout this through to my dc. I find it chaotic. I’d find it easier with one portal.

Has your school settled into a new regime?

Does our experience sound about right and normal?

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Historyofeverything1 · 19/04/2020 21:35

Secondary two week timetable each weeks work gets sent on a Monday has to be submitted by following Sunday. The teachers mark the work the following week and send back comments.
Primary - maths and comprehension get sent daily. Have weekly literacy, art, reading and topic tasks to complete.

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LolaSmiles · 19/04/2020 20:51

Then tell your children to be monitoring it. They are secondary aged.

It's not the set up I would choose but as school are doing their best in unusual times.

Just have a look at the hundreds of other threads about school provision right now and you'll see whatever they do, someone's going to be complaining, then tell your children where the information is and make them resoonsible for completing the work.

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howrudeforme · 19/04/2020 20:08

Yes but they’re sending tweets for live and timed links 15 mins ahead of the session.

Anyhow - get that school is struggling and that’s just how it is.

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LolaSmiles · 19/04/2020 20:04

Of course they're not registering the students.
The material is being set through the platforms you outline.
Your secondary aged children need to be monitoring their own work
There is no reason for you to be checking Twitter whilst working.

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TeenPlusTwenties · 19/04/2020 19:51

If the school didn't have an online portal before, it's a tall ask for them to set one up quickly & train staff how to use it. At least they are sending stuff.

DD is due back tomorrow. At the end of last term all the work came through on google classroom. I prefer more smaller bits as otherwise DD finds it too overwhelming.

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howrudeforme · 19/04/2020 19:48

All sounds good.

Lucky dc is not year 10 and above. Just have to keep calm and do our best.

Thank you for your experiences.

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Bessica1970 · 19/04/2020 19:44

We are using ‘show my homework’ to set all tasks, but we were all a bit too enthusiastic and the kids had too much to do. We are now moving to project based work, and each subject will set a two week long project to be completed when the student wants ( rather than individual lessons on set dates).

It’s a steep learning curve and we’ll probably tweak it a few times before we get it right.

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howrudeforme · 19/04/2020 19:38

I guess some schools more prepared than others.

I’ve now had a tweet/text/email for different subjects asking me to go visit links. It’s just so confusing.

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