What happens when schools close...

[Andcake]

Does work get set and sent home for Dc...I am assuming it is not 2 weeks of Xbox as ds thinks...

Just had this convo with one of the DC and I'm guessing online learning will take place. They seem to think they'll be xboxing all day

it will be 2 weeks of xbox,he is correct!

if school send home work they run the risk of 30 odd kids doing it the wrong way and not learning in the way intended surely?

My friend's son's school closed and they've been set absolutely loads of homework to do in the interim.

they can't force online learning....maybe no computer access.....and they can't force parents to home school either

so it will be pointless if half the class complete it ,and half dont....it will all need to be re done once school resumes

DS's school always sends work when they have a snow day so assume this wouldn't be any different

What age? I’m SLT in a school and we’re planning on doing be online lessons for GCSE and A Level classes if we have to close. For year 7-9 we’ll be asking staff to put up some work online but won’t necessarily have live real-time lessons for them.

For a lot of children, internet is accessed by mobile data at home, not necessarily via 'regular wifi'. Not all children could access online learning. If schools close suddenly, I would imagine that teachers would email home a suggested list of topics for home study but I wouldn't be skypeing the children in our class . ☺
It is a tricky one, I think children taking exams have to be a priority but I did read that some of the exam boards are drawing up contingency plans to decide what to do.
Teachers would have their own children at home too so wouldn't be available online at home necessarily either.

Sabine the government may think this is the way forward to save money on education, one teacher doing online real time lessons across a number of classes

There’s very limited time left to teach A Level and GCSE courses. If we had to close for a few weeks and some students in years 11 and 13 didn’t do the work I’d set or didn’t log on for online lessons, then I wouldn’t be re-teaching it to them when we returned. I’d be getting on with revision and letting them deal with the consequences. We can’t re-do weeks of work with exams looming in May.

Our friends in Hong Kong have been off school for ages, their teachers are streaming lessons. Age 8 and 10.

Bloody hell, ineed I hope not. It’s better than nothing in a situation where we can’t open but I wouldn’t want it to be the norm.

You can’t assume kids have the equipment to dial into Skype or other online access. Our online access is dodgy as anything, our laptop is knackered and the household desktop computer is mine for work during the day, not available for online lessons.

Depending on the local demographics, it will probably vary.
When we lived abroad, in a private school so a certain expectation of laptop and wifi connection expected, we used to have regular (planned twice a year) "virtual school" days where work was emailed across and the kids all stayed at home. No live lessons. This also used to be implemented for adverse weather, or major road closures because of lots of foreign dignitaries visiting the area.

I know from friends Hong Kong and Bahrain have implemented similar systems for coronavirus reasons. Those families where both parents work are being pulled in several directions right now. I cant see our local primaries (now in UK with some very deprived areas closeby) having pupils with the computing/prinying/wifi capabilities to do this.

Feral children running riot. Probably.

Wonder what will happen with SATS too?

Ok - so I am right to expect some tasks set....not that it's happened yet just want to feel prepared and set expectations. It would be easy enough to wfh and if I'm lucky work have said they would offer spare old laptops for wider family support. Boss has school age kids and I think is as much planning for himself.

How old is he OP?

My Dd is an English teacher in China ( although was back home in UK on extended holiday from October and obviously can't travel back yet)
She's been teaching her classes online for last month , which is working well although she's not too happy about getting up at 2am to teach her pupils

What will happen for pupils due to take A levels & GCSE exams this summer if schools are forced to close? Ds is due to do GCSE in May/June, I know they haven't finished the syllabus yet in some subjects, would exam boards be forced to award based on mocks & course work?