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year 6 class not getting any remote teacher support - what are the teachers doing all day

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anyname147 · 08/04/2020 18:30

My ds is in year 6 and has been at home, like most of his peers, these last few weeks. The (state) school has not offered much in the way of remote learning assistance to the kids or parents who are helping them, other than a few links on a page on their website which has remained static for several weeks. In spite of having to work full time, I am not a teacher, but have managed to cobble together some learning stuff for ds to do at home, but this is with zero help from the school. I understand some teachers are still working at school because of the key worker children etc, but surely the vast majority of staff are at home? What are they doing all day if they are still on the payroll? Surely a 10 or 11 year old can be sent homework tasks - that's actually marked - or weekly links to relevant year group content? I understand the kids don't all have laptops, but virtually all households have email and at least one computer or smart phone or tablet. I just find it hard to believe that his school staff haven't risen to the challenge of continuing their pupils' learning and instead have literally abandoned them because they cant go into school. I have, on the other, risen very much to the challenge and look forward to helping my ds learn new things, but this has come (time-wise) at the expense of my job.

OP posts:
spanieleyes · 10/04/2020 14:44

All our children receive a daily maths lesson with arithmetic, questions and reasoning, a weekly arithmetic test, daily writing ( so day 1 plan , day 2 and 3 write, day 4 edit, day 5 improve) daily spelling rules explained and practise sheets, weekly grammar session, and over the week we have history/geog activity, art, music, PSHE and PE. In fact, pretty much what the children would get if they were in school. Children upload work via portfolios and it is marked/commented on by teachers daily. Oh, and access to TT rockstars, accelerated reader and dozens of suggested "fun" activities to participate in. Over the Easter Holidays fun project activities have been set for each year group. In addition staff are rota'd into school to care for key worker children, including over the holiday period too.
Each school will be working in different ways, as they were pre-coronavirus too. But to extrapolate from one to assume all are similar seems doubtful!

Clavinova · 10/04/2020 14:44

I know quite a lot about pp funding - my comment was 'tongue in cheek'.

Kathsmum · 10/04/2020 14:45

Literacy: Personal reading or a diary/scrapbook should be accessible for most year 6 students (haven’t read full thread) with limited support. Kindle are offering some for free if you’ve exhausted everything at home. Horrible histories or blue planet for humanities. Numeracy: fractions, decimals, percentages are the most frequent problems. Hope that helps? I’m middle/ secondary but happy to answer anything I can.

Alternatively year 6 is a horrible stressful year be thankful they’ve missed the says and allow time to recharge art or a diary are often good therapy too.

Wilmalovescake · 10/04/2020 14:49

I’ve loads of friends who are teachers or TAs and they’re all lounging around at home and going into work one day a week or one week a month while I’m working full time and educating my children too.
I haven’t said anything to my friends but it’s really fucking me off. They should either teach remotely or be redeployed.

Italiandreams · 10/04/2020 14:52

The school you linked to is in a very affluent area so I’m sure they did manage to raise donations, that is not the same for other schools. Most schools can not afford a mini bus.

Also sports premium money for the things you are talking about is ring fenced and can’t be used for other things.

ChloeDecker · 10/04/2020 14:52

I’ve loads of friends who are teachers or TAs and they’re all lounging around at home and going into work one day a week or one week a month while I’m working full time and educating my children too.
I haven’t said anything to my friends but it’s really fucking me off. They should either teach remotely or be redeployed.

You could only know this if you lived with all of them, which you don’t. If you do, you are contravening social distancing rules Grin

Piggywaspushed · 10/04/2020 14:53

Unless you are breaking lockdown rules, how do you know what they are doing in their own homes?

Piggywaspushed · 10/04/2020 14:53

Instant x post there !

LolaSmiles · 10/04/2020 14:54

I know quite a lot about pp funding
Says the person who has claimed they were unlikely to be pupil premium because their kitchen looked modern.

ChloeDecker · 10/04/2020 14:54

Your, "Slightly more worthy don’t you think?" comment implied that parents should be worried about healthcare workers - not their children’s education.

It didn’t imply it. I absolutely advocate it! (And I say this as a parent as well)

Pentium85 · 10/04/2020 14:59

Lessons are prepared in advance, of course they are- but you're missing a very crucial point...
These lessons we had planned were active lessons, lessons to be taught with a big whiteboard, lessons to be taught in groups
Not so simple to suddenly get these lessons all online is it?

Secondly, as to what the teachers are doing... my DH spends 50% of time in school still teaching, and the other 50% looking after the children who are still at home but potentially unsafe

If you are not satisfied with the school, remove your child from in rather than wasting time on MN moaning.

Wilmalovescake · 10/04/2020 14:59

What on earth are you talking about?
I know because they’ve told me via messages.

Pentium85 · 10/04/2020 15:00

@Wilmalovescake

Which bit is fucking you off? The part where you feel you made the wrong career choice I guess?

ChloeDecker · 10/04/2020 15:01

But you have proved my point for me - your school is looking after its pupils and the local community (providing visors for healthcare workers).

No. I have proved the point that:

  1. You don’t have to do online video lessons to be ‘earning ya buck’
  1. That you can’t trust it when parents say a school is doing nothing/not enough
  1. That there is usually lots going on in schools that some people don’t appreciate
  1. That schools are different in terms of funding
  1. That PTA budgets are going on more worthy projects currently than on tech/online lessons for pupils, that you suggested.
LolaSmiles · 10/04/2020 15:04

2. That you can’t trust it when parents say a school is doing nothing/not enough
Or at the very least that different parents will have different expectations because their home circumstances are different.

We've had emails, largely very positive and appreciative that we're doing our best, with requests for more work and less work. Unsurprisingly, it's impossible to differentiate work for all ages, all abilities, all SEND needs, all home circumstances regarding parental supervision, all levels of technology available at home eg number of home devices per child/adult WFH.

Clavinova · 10/04/2020 15:10

That PTA budgets are going on more worthy projects

My point is that PTAs spending money on 'worthy projects' would not be doing that if their own dc had been abandoned by their teachers - which appears to be the case with the op. I only asked you what provision your school had made for its pupils because I guessed it would be a lot. You kindly provided me with a long, comprehensive list of what the school are doing. Wink

Clavinova · 10/04/2020 15:12

You don’t have to do online video lessons to be ‘earning ya buck’

I made that point earlier.

ChloeDecker · 10/04/2020 15:41

My point is that PTAs spending money on 'worthy projects' would not be doing that if their own dc had been abandoned by their teachers

You haven’t actually said that yet and I am not sure how you would know.

Can you at least acknowledge that you can’t trust that the OP has been ‘abandoned by her school’?

You yourself say that my school is doing a lot for the children but I have also pointed out that parents on facebook have said ‘publicly’ my school is not doing anything for their children that go there...

Allways123 · 10/04/2020 23:03

Wilmalovescake.. You said you have loads of friends who are Teachers or TA's.. Don't any of them have children of their own or family to look after ? You said they only work one day a week atm? Really??.. Do you really have all the facts?

Also how come when teachers and school staff do lots of extra unpaid hours on a regular basis nobody says nothing.. I don't think anyone was sitting at home lounging before term ended on 3rd April. They can now tho because thyre entitled to a holiday.. Some people may not think so.

On the matter of pay.. People think they're getting paid for doing nothing.. But yearly pay is devided over 12 months so aren't they entitled to their pay. each month even if its paid during a holiday season (like now for instance) when they are lounging around doing nothing?

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