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?

No phone calls here. Dd1 is P1, but we have had 4 or 5 Google Meets, weekly emails and daily messages from her teacher of the virtual classroom.

Secondary -Year 9. Several generic emails but no emails about the child, no phone calls. Work is put on SMHW and we are asked to email completed work to teachers, but only a few actually mark it. GCSE option work should have started at half-term. Very dispiriting.

y10 DD here. Weekly contact with pastoral care one way or another, but she is a 'vulnerable child' so she and I have needed it.

Her subject teachers have also been fab at not hounding her about all the missing work but instead being enthusiastic with any slight thing she does manage.

One phone call. You can contact staff through a generic email. No work set, nothing marked just a long jumbled list of online resources you could access. Videos of the staff doing silly things in attempt to raise spirits?
Now they are putting loads of pictures on the website of the kids who are back in school doing crafts, coding, exercising etc. Unsurprisingly they are much better at educating children onsite. I'd rather not see pictures of the kids back in school making sculptures as I try and get my year 3 to do ANY schoolwork while I wfh.

Reception, 1 call around a month ago. Have been in touch via email though.

Primary - had 2 calls and one telling off because I wasn't home schooling.

Secondary pastoral/safeguarding lead here. In my school, priority has to be given to children we know are vulnerable. All pupils can contact any member of staff by email, as can parents. The school office is also staffed all day. Calls home to our most vulnerable are not always as simple as a quick chat. Sometimes there is no answer and we end up making a home visit. Sometimes I spend ridiculous amounts of time trying to track down social workers or making social care referrals. Lots of times since lockdown I have contacted children after we've received a notification of domestic violence........This doesn't leave time for everyone. If there are no known vulnerabilities and pupils are engaging in work regularly then I'm afraid there is a presumption that they are ok, and if there are concerns the child or parent would be in touch.

Our school has phoned every week. I work in dcs school as a lunch time supervisor, so I returned to work on 1st of June. My bubble is actually taught by dcs teacher, she asked if I needed a weekly call and I said no, but she said she will call every other week as my dc likes to speak to her.

I think one thing that this pandemic has shown is the vast difference from good schools and what they provide and poor schools and what they provide.

No calls at all from DS2's school, however the level of work set by them has been great, they're fantastic at replying to any messages and mark and give feedback really quickly. There's also been a weekly zoom call.

I've been a bit more disappointed with DS1's school. He's year 11, so obviously GCSE year, and he's had nothing at all. They waved them goodbye with no email to check how they're all getting on etc. I know they're busy, I know they've been turned upside down with this years GCSE plans etc, but I'm still disappointed that no one has asked if DS is ok and does he understand how the grades are going to work etc.

Secondary yes. Email or call every other week.

Primary no.

Nothing. As far as the school knows, I could have locked them in a cupboard back in March.
No work to submit (just a weekly list of 'work'- 20 minutes of Maths per day, reading, one English exercise per week, one bit of topic work, and 'wellbeing')
Had an email on Friday saying they won't be able to bring back any other year groups.

At first, when it looked short term, it was ok. But as it goes on...

Headteacher called twice, and her teacher once. The actual teacher was available over email though during school hours and very quick to respond.

Now she's back at school headteacher has rung to see how she's settled back in and what we think of the changes.

Our school has contacted, or attempted to contact, every child at least fortnightly. It's been tricky when calling from our own phones as we were told to withhold our numbers so that children /parents don't get hold of them. Unfortunately, this means that a lot of parents don't answer the calls. We have to refer those to the HT who then calls from school. Anyone we haven't been able to contact by phone has had a home visit by HT. There have been some referrals to ss.

Our adopted children fall under the"vulnerable" group and we have had phone calls twice a week since school shut including the Easter holidays (years 1 and 4).

It's been great for the kids and the majority of calls have been from their teachers who have spoken to them as well as checking in with me.

I even got a call after they went back to school at the beginning of the month checking how they were finding it.

We have not had a phone call but there's a weekly email with work set and if you are walking past school and give them a wave they'll come out and say hello. There is a weekly video from the Head on the website the kids enjoy watching. I think if I had phoned to say we were struggling they would have tried to help.

It's only an infant school tho and my eldest hates the phone, I'm sure she isn't the only one. Phone calls could have been excruciating.

Primary. No call. Just a video message from a year group teacher per week. No online lessons, just print outs /slides. It's been pretty poor.

I work in an infant school.
Every one of our 360 children get a call biweekly. New work packs are on line or paper form for parents to collect every Monday.
Text messages are sent with any updated information.
Parents & children are very happy & appreciate all we are doing for them.

I've had one call and they mentioned a weekly email check which was never done. Ours sets work on seesaw and they encourage photos/ videos and recordings of the children. I suspect if you're not doing the work they'd check on you more.

We have been getting weekly calls as well as email contact every couple of days. If you email, they’ll usually get back the same day, or next day at the latest. I have 2 dc in reception and one in yr 3. They also encourage you to upload all the kids homework and pictures of what they have been up to. They always reply. They’ve been very good at updating the website too and have been adding loads of worksheets for the kids. I can’t complain, the school have been amazing under the circumstances

Secondary school yes (been adhoc probably 3 phonecalls). I actually expected more as ds is vulnerable medically /sen and young carer. Primary school no phonecalls but regular emails and when I didn't get back to them they emailed to check we were all ok. Actually feel more supported by the consistency of primary school.

Once before Easter. Nothing since. Year 9

Yr6 - had a call a week from the head, and one from his class teacher when I had expressed some worries I had.
Plus weekly zoom "assemblies" started after a few weeks.

He's back at school now in a bubble of 9.

I know that an email to the head will be responded to promptly.

It's a great school.

Generally twice a week. DD is in year ten. If anything I find the calls a little irritating