Aibu to ask if your school have phoned you during lockdown?

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Ours haven’t - I’m not bothered at all by it but another parent (friend) is absolutely stark raving mad about it! Have you been called? Did you give a toss?

I guess the aibu is

YABU school should call
YANBU not bothered if they call

We've had at least one call per week (two in preschool, eldest heading to Reception in September). All the families are getting one call per week, but we're in the process of applying for an EHCP, hence the extra calls.

It's been helpful given our situation.

Secondary school yes, primary no. Yes they absolutely should. The way some schools have chosen to cast their kids aside is disgraceful.

Secondary school tutor has, primary haven't. I'm not that worried. They are contactable if I need them by email or messaging.

Primary parent here - we haven't had one call, zoom etc. just a weekly email check.

I think it's crazy that in all this time they haven't called to speak to the children.

Yes secondary school has for year 7 child. Every week, to see how we are getting on and if managing the Microsoft teams lessons

Secondary - yes, a call from each form tutor. Nothing from primary although DC has played with his class teacher's child on the playstation so at least she knows he's alive.

We've had 1 call just after Easter for our yr2 dd. We get work set each Monday and just need to email 1 thing in that the kids are proud of. They have said they are available to call or email if needed.

Twice since lockdown from the primary school and 3 times (I think) from the nursery. They should be calling IMO, my son was chuffed to speak to his teacher for a couple of minutes. I get that schools are busy but I don’t think it’s acceptable that some have had no contact whatsoever with families.

One call, but the teacher responds pretty quickly on DoJo.

No, but it’s absolutely fine. My daughter speaks to two or three teachers daily during lessons taught via Teams and has a weekly online session with her Form Tutor. Plus they say in the newsletter each week to get in touch if we need them.

Once by ds’s primary school and I think they’ve been absolutely shocking bad in their provision for providing work for the kids. Ds is In year 6 so this is an important time for him yet the school have done nothing to prepare him for the transition to senior school. I’d quite like to know what they’ve been doing for the last 3 months tbh - hint: fuck all.

Dds Senior School have been better but but still fairly shit.

There should have been a national education service rolled out on TV/YouTube within a couple of weeks. Teachers should have been made to teach.

Primary school...we have had one call for each of my DCs. Weekly emails from teachers and video messages. Personal emails from teachers that have marked work etc

I’ve got one in Y4 and one in Y7. My Y7 had one zoom call with her tutor group last week. That’s it.

No calls at all here. One in year 8 working on whatever she is sent by email. And one in year 4 with work sent by class dojo. And I mark it and comment on dojo daily with what she has done.
Quite disappointed by both schools actually. Especially the primary as since the other years have gone back the quality and quantity of work on dojo has reduced and I know people with children in my daughters class are sending their kids in as they are claiming they are back at work but either have other options or are working from home but they think they are being taught more at school.
As a keyworker I could have sent mine in from the start but I managed to work around it to take the pressure off the schools.

I missed off that dds school have called a couple of times when she hasn’t subimitted her work. We had to ask for her actual teacher to call her as she was struggling.

No calls for us, but regular emails and they reply to emails quickly. They are calling families who ask for calls or who have gone quiet though. And I'm sure also kids they know are vulnerable. Primary school here.

I'm a TA and i’ve called all the students in my school once over the last 2 weeks and teachers before have called their own classes at least three times. Starting my 2nd round today. Should be able to call another 2 times withSEND children and PP children getting another 3/4.

Yes each child has had a call every week. They always make sure to talk to the child too, even 4 year old DD, to check they are ok etc.

I'm happy with the no calls as I think if we'd needed them we would get them. We just haven't needed them.

Secondary school - no. But they have 2000 pupils so just ringing everyone sounds a bit too time consuming for not much benefit. I hope they are carrying out targeted calling.

Yes we’ve had calls every couple of weeks. More vulnerable families / families who haven’t been engaging with the work set were called more regularly (not in a pressured way just to check in). Primary.

I call children from my class weekly and some others get weekly emails on top for emotional support, we set up dedicated email addresses for parents to contact us when they need to/want to (it’s nice getting a quick hi and photos from them!).
I do wonder if I annoy parents with the weekly contact but if I do they’re being very polite 😂

Primary:
Y2 does a zoom quiz/ activity most weeks which is good for a casual check in. Occasional "how's your family doing" type dojo.
Y4 one phone call to discuss DS's SENtargets back in early May

I've sent no work back, we mainly freestyle on Bitesize as it works better for us and the quality between y2 and y4 varied.

They'd better hope that I'm keeping the DCs safe and healthy because I have a DBS with them!