Has anyone been happy with the home schooling provision provided today?

[MollysMummy2010]

Just that really. I have been very impressed with the provision - I think that the teachers must have spent a lot of time over Christmas preparing for this. Yesterday was a planned INSET anyway but at 9am today my daughter had a recorded English, maths and geography lesson ready and a live assembly on Teams. All the lessons were interactive and the teacher was available via messaging. She struggles a bit with maths and the teacher has scheduled a breakout with her tomorrow.

They have offered to provide laptops and internet if households are struggling with having to share devices or internet service.

I am so impressed with her far they have come since the last lock down and just wondered how other schools are doing?

My son's school has been brilliant. He's been kept busy all day every day so far (with the exception of a programming task that was meant to take three lessons but which he completed in ten minutes, but that's just him being a computer geek and his teacher will hopefully give him something else to do for the next lesson). Teachers have been online following the timetable so he's had help on hand and prompt feedback. I've been very impressed and very grateful.

Not overly impressed.

Year 9, girls grammar. School emailed on Monday outlining the timetable for the next 2 weeks. Offering live lessons for half the timetable only. Difficult to gauge exactly the quality of these lessons as dd won't let me in her room, but from talking to other parents it seems that both teacher and students' cameras are off so not particularly engaging. One parent said a 'live' lesson just meant the teacher was around in the background while the kids worked. Not exactly teaching is it?

Dd did say one live lesson on Tuesday was 'cancelled'.

It’s a fuck up. My morning has been a succession of overrunning meetings which means the other child can’t attend their meeting.

Plus I have no idea what the older one should be doing and isn’t doing because I’m working with the younger one and all work has to be handed in by 4pm every day. I’m now trying to eat breakfast as my head hurts.

I'm surprisingly impressed. I was expecting the entire system to implode with technical issues since they were relying on Teams which is finicky at the best of times but its gone without a hitch.

Dd had minor tech issues because she couldn't figure out how to turn her Web cam off but leave her mic on and her teams imploded due to her being signed into three different Microsoft accounts however she followed the instructions given to her and emailed the IT teacher who sent her a simple to guide to follow. By the time she involved me the issue was half fixed already.

Lessons have gone ahead as planned. They're allowed social time supervised by a teacher.

I'm really impressed. Well done teachers.

Yes so far this week they've been brilliant,year 8 here and in the last lockdown the school really struggled but they've pulled it off this time.

My DC's primary school has been so impressive. With 2 primary DCs, a toddler and one laptop I'm struggling to get through the volume of work, but they said up front that they wanted to over-provide rather than under (presumably because of all the complaining parents first time!) and it was most important to focus on phonics, English and maths. I don't think it will be possible to keep up this level of work for parents working full time or without good English, but am sure that they will.adjust.

I can't imagine how hard it is for the teachers to manage all this, especially with lots.of groups and lots of kids back at school, and hope they can sustain the pace!

Hats off to our school - extended closures (Wales) announced first thing, and by morning break they'd cancelled the next lesson, replaced it with a pastoral check-in and a wellbeing session and set up a live assembly.