Will schools have a more coordinated approach after Easter?

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I know they had to close very quickly without much chance to work things out, but do you think we can ask any more of schools after Easter? They seem to vary so wildly in how much work and contact they are offering.

My DC in year 5 is asked to do 30 min maths and 45 literacy a day across three websites the school has accounts for. There was a small amount of project work set initially, of which he has picked and done the bits he was interested in.
We have had no contact from school since 20 March. There is no suggestion that the work will be marked, which is understandable but also quite demotivating for a child.

In contrast, my colleagues' child of the same age has daily work set and marked, daily interaction with teacher and classmates. Another child I know, also in year 5, has weekly tasks set across the curriculum.

Sadly, it doesn't come as a surprise to me that both live in more affluent areas. Our school is great, normally. But I feel a bit let down by this.

The ridiculous thing is that we have a National Curriculum in England

Have you seen the current NC for England?!
My subject is half a side of A4.

Secondary that is.

Haven't read all the replies but I think it varies teacher to teacher, not just school to school. My year 5 ds has been set daily maths on the computer, then a bit of English, spellings, story writing etc and that's about it, takes about an hour in total. My year 3 dd (same school) on the other hand has been set loads! We've not been able to keep up with it! I've been using my own resources to fill out ds's workload so they both spend the same amount of time. The school as a whole has been brilliant though. They've added a home learning section to their website, along with daily work set for the individual classes and notes from teachers, the headteacher has been setting a daily challenge, other teachers have uploaded videos of things for the children to do, get an email every few days keeping in touch. They've set up a dedicated email so kids can email any of the teachers, have set up a Twitter feed so can share pictures etc and all 3 of my children have received a phone call from their class teachers to see how they are. Can't fault them really.

We put up some work before the school closed to the majority of the children. Now we have planned 6 weeks of work for the children to do at home. We also set work on websites like phonics play and sumdog.

We are primary so we are not doing live lessons but we are going to do video messages and some story reading to have that communication open. That will be embarrassing but is what I need to do.

I want my class back as I miss them and I know technology cannot replace the interactions we have every day. Teaching is not a solitary process believe me and learning is the same. We are all doing what we can do and making the best of an awful situation. Let's just look to the future and accept that our lives at the moment are different but 'normal' life is round the corner.

We’ve just had an email from the primary school with A list of topics they will be doing this term. Each topic will last a fortnight and means siblings will be doing the same topic to make it easier for parents to dicusss and do activities with thier children. It also details the areas of learning, what apps/websites they will be using. Also mentions that it’s not compulsory and to not stress about doing it every day etc then goes on to say welsh government are working on a continuity of education plan, and the secondary school are working on some transition material for the year 6s.
I thought it was pretty well set up before Easter hols but they seem to be really good at staying in contact with the parents and I like the fact that they are thinking about how to make it easier for the parents to support the learning (although I now only have 1 in primary)
Hopefully all your schools will be putting similar in place for the new term.

Oh and we’ve also been sent a link to a welsh government survey on parents and how we feel about this situation, what’s important to us through this etc

Just returning to this thread as I have just read about the Oak National Academy, which is launching tomorrow as well as the BBC Bitesize stuff www.thenational.academy/. I have also seen that the most vulnerable children will provided with laptops. This all makes me feel a bit more optimistic!

I wouldn't get too hopeful about the laptop situation.