Have you had contact from school re yr 10 and yr 12 going back - what have they said?

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Our school has suggested small numbers of pupils at a time go back into the school for what seems to be 1-1 pastoral / tutorial sessions. This may be the first stage before small group teaching starts - but they are definitely just having very small numbers of pupils in at a time in the school.

Just wondering what other schools are doing to see if our school is just being very cautious or is typical of secondary schools.

Our high school have asked if year 10 parents would send their kids back to classes of 10 - one day a week for half a day. I said yes since I think we have already had it and DS wants to go back asap.

A local sixth form college of 2500 students has said no return for year 12 this school year

Y10 at independent school - going back after half term for alternate weeks in school and working from home. Still waiting to hear exact details but am assuming full days and 12 ish to a class. Same for Y12 I believe.

LaureBerthaud it is a 2,500 student sixth form college.

The provision has been online live lessons (using Microsoft teams I think) for the full timetable from day 1 of school closure - actually from before day 1 as they were getting it up and running the previous week and had some teachers presenting their lesson online from home (vunerable) to the students in the classroom and others could log in to participate, plus some classroom lessons streamed to those at home - from the week before.

Classwork being set and undertaken during the lesson - so the teacher is available for video interaction, homework being set and uploaded for marking.

Enrichment activities and groups set up online and participation encouraged.

Tutor contact to check up where issues are flagged (my ds isn't engaging with his EPQ - which to be fair he isn't interested in and wasn't engaging with before, this is likely to be a good get out for him. His tutor has emailed him copied to me and I'd expect further if he hadn't responded).

Very good general information and updates about what's happening and what they are doing.

Admittedly it wouldn't be excellent if you didn't have the tech to access, I have no idea what they are doing about that. But would equally imagine the the demographic is such that the majority do.

Not sure about from September but just now our school seem to be targeting those not engaging with the work online at home and asking them in to do it on a computer in uniform...

We've had confirmation that our 6th form will NOT be open before September.

@Chasingsquirrels - thanks for your reply. It does sound like your DS is getting an excellent level of teaching and engagement from his school.