My DD is 10 and attends a local primary school. It’s a relatively small school - 1 class per year, circa 270 children including nursery.
In lockdown 1 there were no video sessions at all. Local authority didn’t allow, apparently, so just work set on Google classroom. I have a friend with a child in school in the neighbouring county whose child had 4 hours of online lessons a day.
Fast forward to this lockdown, and there are 2-3 tasks set per day on classroom, and 2 virtual meet-ups of between 15 and 30 minutes a week (usually 40 mins total). No live lessons. Tasks not marked, no feedback given. Local authority has limited hub places to 20% of headcount. So it’s hard to see what the staff are doing all day (not teacher bashing at all - they are usually exceptional, but the maths is off somewhat here).
Asked friends with children in the 2 nearest primary schools. One has support staff running the hubs and all teachers at home delivering 3-4 hours of live lessons per day. The other has an hour’s live teaching in the morning and an hour’s drop in session in the afternoon for well-being/socialising, checking queries about the work. Same local authority, almost exactly the same demographic (but bigger schools).
No sign of junior children returning to school here. AIBU to wonder what the staff are doing?!