What, if any, 'face to face support' will your school be offering for years 10 and 12?

Yes pumpkin, true to form, on a Bank Holiday during Cummings' confessional.

My y10 dd has been working non-stop through online tasks. She is perfectly happy with the work / communication and isn't keen on going in yet. Neither am I, so rather than add to the risk for the teachers / pupils, she won't be going in until September.

Got an email from both my children's school stating it will be published on the 28th May

For me the big worry for DS2 is Eng Lang and Eng Lit...........especially the AQA Sec B writing part in Eng Lang

That must be really hard for the teachers but for my ds who is in year 10 that would be lovely to have that option for any subjects he is finding a bit tricky.

A friend is a year 12 maths teacher. They have been asked to do a single one hour face to face session with each student in their classes.

This is precisely my thinking. I guess they are hoping we will capture the hearts and minds of some of the ones falling by the wayside...

I have both Y10 and Y12 sons. Not sure I understand the F2F bit; surely they can do this via Teams or whatever other online system exists. Would be more efficient this way, and safer.

I am not in principle against a return to school; I just don't think the government have provided any reassurance. I am keen for boys to stay at home, as they are using videos/podcasts to learn new content; and using past exam papers/mark schemes to assess their progress. In some ways, we are better off wfh than going to school

No definitely 1/4 of each year group.

I thought the 1/4 referred to all pupils which meant all Year 10 and Year 12?
To be honest my Year 12 kids don't want to go back to school - they have enjoyed self study more than classes...they are begging me not to make them get back into their business suits to go to school. It will take some adjusting...they will go back though for whatever is offered.

One day a week from 15th June in a class of 8.

The guidance came out yesterday and is very vague : but it does not suggest teaching is what is expected or required but also refers to 1/4 year groups, so it's (surprise!) confusing.

But certainly it is not meant to be whole year groups.

In my school 1/4 of a year groups is more than 100 year 10s mind, so hardly a handful of kids.

I can't even begin to think how secondary schools are going to manage distancing - the kids move around and share desk and chairs - change classes several times a day - corridors are very narrow. I'm not worried about my dc's health I just don't understand how they can manage this in a Secondary setting.

The faces on screen, the 'entry' into children's homes, what they are wearing , the invasion of teachers' private lives.

I am probably more relaxed than the next person about the GCHQ can read my emails kind of shock-horror (I'm always losing emails in 'conversations', so it's useful to know that there's someone I can call on to find them in an emergency). However, even I am uncomfortable with the possible issues around live visual contact from home to home. Currently, some Oxford students taking exams remotely and those taking STEP in the summer, have to submit to camera sweeps of the room they are in, but do / should the teachers delivering live, interactive lessons from their homes? Who else is in the room with them? One can understand people's concerns. Ditto the teachers' re their own privacy.

Back on track, DS2 is in year 12 and we have had nothing concrete yet about how face to face contact, if any this term, will be managed. Just to complicate the issue, we are waiting for medical advice as to whether he really should be going back at the moment anyway, but his appointment had been put back twice and now may not happen at all. The most recent letter from the hospital department was not at all clear as to what will happen for him specifically and after what date we should chase up whatever it may be...The school are happy that he should wait, even assuming that they do get something sorted before July.

We have been informed that my ds's form tutor will get in contact after half term by phone but they will not to see them before the 8th June.

The school is awaiting for guidelines which will be released on the 28th May.

He is in Year 10- and is currently learning through SMHW .

No detail yet. Yrs 10 and 12 will get 2 weeks each, so they won't have both years in together. They wont be full time for those 2 weeks.

Vulnerable children and those of key workers in one designated area, in full time.

Y10 split into 5 groups, each group in for one day a week. Each day they're split into two groups and taught in separate classrooms to enable social distancing. 1.5 hours each of maths, English and science.

Each classroom has an external door so they don't pass others coming in and out. One in/one out system for toilets.

The other four days they're doing home learning.

Not now they won't!

My DP is a teacher; his school will be alternating weeks between Yr 10 and Yr 12 from next week.

DS3, Y12, aims to be starting back 8th June. Lengthy email from the school probably longer than the govt guidance about how it is intended to work. As DS3 at a joint sixth form, so multi sites albeit in very close proximity to each other, seems every pupil will be based for everything at their home school, more limited numbers, social distancing, etc, etc. Whilst not affecting us directly being in a rural area a good number of DCs come in on buses, so quite how that will work I'm not sure.

As many have suggested there's still lots of unknowns. School hopes to issue a timetable w/c 1st June, intimation so far that for the three subjects majority at most 3 days in each week, presumably with some sort of AM / PM mix.

In normal times any video conferencing between children and an adult would be a safeguarding no.

The faces on screen, the 'entry' into children's homes, what they are wearing , the invasion of teachers' private lives.

Most video conferencing is done with the camera off, even sometimes amongst adults (I need to do it in meeting to hide my eye rolling!)

Children have video captured and recorded lessons and altered teachers' appearances .and/or circulate them ,too.

Our LA safeguarding lead says video conferencing with faces on screen is an outright no, so we are following LA lead, not the union, not the DfE and not some misguided embarrassment story cooked up by some awful woman on Twitter last week.

Yes, it's all so tricky : hence no guidance yet, I suspect!

Thanks for replying :)