If you dont want to send your kids back to school in june...

[ScottishStottie]

Will you still be expecting the teacher to be setting work to do from home?

Not sure whats going to be happening here but i imagine that once teachers are back in the classroom then thats the lessons they are teaching and preparing for, i cant imagine they will have the time to do everything twice in different formats.

So if you are keeping your children off are you preparing lessons/school schedules to properly home school them?

I have the impression that some people hope it won’t.

Hope doesn't come in to it. I don't think it is likely. In our school reception and y1 take priority and y6 may return in the first week of July but parents have been warned that not all those children who want to return may be able to because at that point they will be very close to capacity with social distancing measures. So, I expect mixed schooling is on the cards.

Ours are reopening to R, Y1, Y6 in June and will no longer be setting online work for those year groups. Those whose parents choose to keep them home will be directed to Oak Academy / BBC Bitesize online lessons.

My year 6 daughter’s school said they will be only opening the school to the key workers children from 2nd June because the government has not met the 5 test.

My son's teacher has been teaching key workers' children as well as sending daily work, 4 subjects per day out and emailing each day too - the school will carry on to this effect after 1st June.

Our kids are in Y2 and Y3, so not applicable at the moment.

And we haven't made a decision yet re: sending back or not.
It would depend on:

• does it seem safe enough (How many kids per bubble? What's the infection rate in our area? Are hospitals coping well? Is there lots of new cases of that strange inflammatory syndrome? etc.)
• and does it seem sane enough (are they expected to wash their hands so often their skin goes red? Will they be yelled at for picking their nose? Will playtime be sitting on the floor on your own in a 2m chalk circle? etc.)

If we feel it's in our kids best interest to stay at home, we will keep them here, and stay in touch with their school (as teachers can feel almost like family for small kids), but any work set by the school will be a nice extra, not a must have (BBC bitesize, Oak Academy, and other more specialised resources like White Rose Maths, should work just fine for us)

Our school isn't providing online learning for anyone choosing not to send them back.

So a bit of a mixed bag of what schools are doing!

Yes understand that those that are opening part time and for age groups not yet back that online work would continue, i meant more the ones that are reopening full time to thise age groups. Although notnsure how many schools are able to actually do this. At least a couple are judging by responses on this!

Our school will be offering both. Teachers who are able to go into school will teach in school, those shielding/vulnerable will WFH and manage the online learning platform. Also, teachers in school will not be required to mark books so that will free up a lot of time for them.

Our school is not opening (nor most schools I imagine). Even if they were, they were planning on sending work home for the 90% who didn't sign up.

Honestly I'm fucking bored of these goady, pathetic threads trying to make people feel like they should send their kids back to school. It's not happening. Get over it.

I wasnt being goady, just interested in what the parental expectation is and how that is working in practice. Totally understand that its a parents choice, and support the councils and schools that have said that no fines would be issued. But was wondering whether everyone was aware of the full potential outcomes of that choice.

Our school have said they'll continue to set work for home learners...... and if they didn't I'd be fine with that, they won't get the same sort of learning as having to homeschool 4 different ages children single handily won't be easy but we will definitely try our best and adapt to make the best of it.

Yes we are still setting work.

But was wondering whether everyone was aware of the full potential outcomes of that choice.

How very patronising of you.

Firstly, the large number of people who don't consider it safe to return their children to school yet probably won't change their minds just because you point out the teachers will find it hard to send work home and teach in school.

And secondly, you're grossly underestimating teachers if you think they'll just forget about the students at home. Teachers don't generally operate like that, even though it will double their workload, as you point out.

I made my decision knowing 1 school is setting no work at all (but they are available via email contact with suggestions if needed - usually in the form of directing towards a website / app).
The other school has been updating their website with 'home learning'.
This weeks was directing towards White Rose Maths to work on 1 area.
English was directing us to Phonics via youtube & 4 words the yr1's are to learn.
Last but not least, Art was the child looking at pictures from 1 Artist and then making their own using household objects / natural objects.

So whilst it's.... nice? that all my childs year group are covering the same few things there, I'm still ''filling the gaps'' in regards to actual home learning that covers the rest of the time. I made my decision knowing this.

Our school is continuing with everything online so no change for us.

Our school is only setting online work, the children who go to school will just complete the same work but supervised by teachers. There's no actual teaching. 2 days a week offered. I've declined.

My sons school is still sending work for children not attending.
My son is nursery which isn't opening anyway but I'll be keeping him home until i can be sure emotionally he can cope and the changes have lessened.
I'm an early years teacher so will plan to the curriculum as I have been.