What have your school done for home schooling support?

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Really disappointed in our school.

-One phone all home in 12 weeks.
-2 sets of work sheets they created but had repeat tasks on ie-make a cardboard robot On different sheet
-no communication from class teacher
-no class communication so class mates can see each other
Links to websites such as bbc bite size but barely anything they have created or at least advised was what was going to be teached
-they said as of this week They were giving daily lessons out, yesterday didn’t bother to send due to IT issues, why would you send it the same day anyway? I’m not sure why they are changing the routine now, we prepared for chnage and got the children ready but then they didn’t send the work? Just feels a shambles.

In all honestly we’ve done well creating activities and intoning that off websites. Appreciating the schools have a lot on surely there are available teachers to do more with those students at home? Apparently they can start to use Microsoft teams next week.

Interested in other people’s experiences as I want to talk to them but am I being unreasonable. A bit of reassurance the curriculum is being followed and also some interaction with class mates would really make a difference.

We’ve been very fortunate with our primary - sent home with varied sheets for the first two weeks while they got their online stuff sorted.

Since then we get 6-7 larger pieces of work a week, sent on Sunday night. Often with video explanations. Includes a mix of French, Maths, reading comprehension, story writing, PE, art and outdoor learning projects. Daily marking. Weekly message from head. School are managing this with yr R and 1 in and split into bubbles, plus two groups of key worker children. I’ve been really impressed throughout.

Ours have been fantastic.
One primary, one secondary, both state.

Primary all set up using google class. Children all given their own email address to use. Timetable sent out weekly, activities added daily. Teacher gives individual feedback within a couple of days at most. Some activities are from BBC bitesize or other external web sites, but google classroom has feature where you can upload a document or photo, so Dc gets comments on all work. Some shared group activities where Dc can all comment together (they are all very positive and encouraging of one another.)

Secondary, very structured, following usual timetable, one or two live lessons per day, again daily feedback on work done. Dc are set up on MS teams so can work together on projects as well as live lessons. School flagged when Dc was struggling with one of the subjects and contacted us (and Dc) to see if support needed, made plan (via video call) and put into place extra support with us and specialist subject tutors very quickly.

They have been totally brilliant.