How much teaching going on if schools open in June

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Hi, any teachers out there please? I know lots of things are still in planning, but I wonder if the schools open in early June for year 6, how much actual teaching do you think would actually happen, considering everyone needs to be briefed on the new rules, gets settled into new ways of doing things etc? Do you think it would be more of getting students back into routine and building transitions to secondary schools? For those children who stay at home in June, do you think they will miss out much academically? Thank you very much for your insights.

Next to nothing. This should have been SATs week. After that all they normally do is projects, plays, residentials etc. Lots of group stuff...

They probably won't have their normal teacher, and might not even be with their own year group. It will be like wrap-around care, but less fun.

I think it will be hard to teach as normal. I'd estimate 80% of my teaching involves either touching a child's work or being within 2m of them to see how they're doing.

Also remember that Y6 would normally be doing more plays, games and projects at this time of year anyway.

I think all schools will have different approaches though. Some might be teaching full lessons, some might be doing project work, some might just be having fun.

If it'll affect whether you send him in, I'd suggest asking the school directly. Although wait until nearer June first - noone will have decided yet!

I'd think we'll want to get back into proper teaching ASAP. However hard teachers have worked to teach online - and that has been pretty intense for teachers at our schools - children have missed a lot of work and schools won't be complacent about that. There will need to be supportive PSHE input, but there is no reason not to crack on and cover as much curriculum as possible.

The difficulty will be if half the children in the clas come back and half don't. Whatever is taught then just increases the gap between those in school and those not. I'm not sure what will be the best strategy in that case.

It's all very uncertain. But we will do our best, as always.

Thank you very much for all your useful input, it is very much appreciated!

My guess is that it would be two days a week so that the class sizes can be kept small to try and manage social distancing.

My school are planning for both home learning and classroom learning. We are focusing on English and Maths only, and PHSE with a major focus on wellbeing in the afternoon

Thank you very much for your info. iLovee, those curriculum sounds very relevant to me, great idea.