Do you think they’ll be summer catch up school for secondary school dc?

[sunshineanddaffodils]

Or is it going to be more of a childcare thing for primary schools? My dc are year 8 and 10. They’re trying their best with home learning but it would be wonderful to have something for them over summer with their peers.

My DC are same age and I am kind of hoping there isn't, I just want them (and me!) to feel free of school work. I want to take a week off work and them not have anything they have to do and actually have some holiday time.

Hahahaha. NO. It was just Boris saying something he thought would be popular. There isn’t any plan. Or any time to put together a plan.

Who do you think will be taking those catch up sesssions?

Cos most teachers have already worked through a couple of half terms, unpaid, and will need time to plan for whatever the exam boards decide is the way forward.

Just wishful thinking on my part probably as dd is really missing school. I think it will probably be more of a childcare scheme for the primary schools.

Have you sorted out social bubbles for them? If not, do that. Get down the park with some of their mates. 6 kids together in the park, making vague attempts at social distancing (ie, a football or some tennis racquets), sitting o a rug having a picnic. Adults can stay away from each other, or take it in turns to have half an hour to themselves somewhere.

I think it’s a non starter it won’t be qualified teachers doing it, so no point. The teachers need a break as do my own children who have been working all the time so need a break from school work. We won’t be attending any summer school catch up and mine are year 7 and 4

Teachers will need a break. Currently we're rewriting SOW to cover what has been missed and producing resources in triplicate for the first term, one for in school delivery, one for online delivery and a third for students who can't access online resources just in case when we go back we have to do blended learning or we have to shut / lockdown over winter.

@ohthegoats it's tricky as their friends are quite spread out - school is in the nearest town and dc come from all over the place.

I can't imagine what the government have got in mind, OP. I know one teacher whose been working throughout, doing longer hours with the children as keyworker children on an extended day. She didn't get her Easter break. On top of which she's setting remove learning for her class and in regularly contact with parents who want it. She says she's exhausted. If campsites, hotels are opened in July, then some families will want to go away.

Even if some teachers are willing to do, whether paid or not, they've probably got partners who've taken time off work in the summer holidays to be with them, so they'll surely want that time off, ie it won't be continuous.

I'm intrigued to know what will be announced.

I doubt it. Most likely teachers will be asked to put together a booklet for kids to do at home no time to make, implement and staff and real meaningful plan.

I dunno. Basically, I still cannot fathom why state schools striked out zoom live lessons. And did some weird hybrid workpacks/parent teaching/unschool thing. When private and schools around the world just put the teachers on live. Apparently England is so backwards and poor (compared to the rest of the covid countries) that state schools couldn’t possibly do this cos kids weren’t equipped.

Anyway, given that state secondaries are where they are, I think the exam boards with Ofsted and Ministry of education should pay one set of the country’s best teachers and film them NOW with their Summer term lessons. If Springwatch can do it, so can the Min of Ed.

Then use the BBC on TV and iplayer to deliver the goods starting 1st July for 2 months; and gov’t give one off exemption for TV licence for any schoolchildren’s families just for the Summer. We should be out of confinement this Summer so the poor teens who have neither TV nor smartphone nor laptop nor anything, can go over to friends / aunt’s / whatever, to watch it all. Hell, even football stadiums. Masked up.

Why, we might even shoot up the PISA tables from however far down we are lurking.

5 hours a day 9am to 2pm
Only for secondary

@blackpeonies

5 hours a day 9am to 2pm Only for secondary

Is this what you want/ think is happening? Or has it actually been released somewhere?

@bea No not at all just chatting away anonymously on mumsnet knowing precious little

Hope not. It's been very stressful supporting her through school work at home for both of us. We need the summer holidays more than ever before.

Already been told by the head in the newsletter that it wont be happening in DD2's school. The schools didn't know anything about it when Boris announced it.

Said something in the briefing today about money for them not sure what though, maybe the usual clubs which go on for working parents in summer?

I don't think so OP. I know the govt said something about summer catch-up classes, but the govt have said various things and I agree that a) teachers need a break and b) DC also do. My DC have been working every school day doing home schooling and they're getting through the rest of the curriculum for this year. Neither of them (Y7 and Y4) need yet more school work over the summer - particularly as school between Sept-Christmas is always really full on and may be even more so this year. IMO what they need right now is social contact with other kids and some organised sports. Those would be VERY welcome over the summer.

same here, organised sports and social contact is what's needed here not more lessons although they have missed loads of currculum I'm sure. Cut the curriculum for the next couple of years and organise some social stuff. Lots of 11-15 year olds are in that very awkward stage of not quite up to organising their own social stuff but their parents don't know each other. So hard!

Very good point @azaleanth90 !

Personally I would prefer if government and schools efforts went into making sure that all children can return fully in September. There needs to be a reduction of the content for those taking exams next year with clear guidance given to teachers in good time so they can plan.

@blackpeonies...that was so funny and actually genius. Just read it out to my husband.

I dunno. Basically, I still cannot fathom why state schools striked out zoom live lessons Safeguarding.

And did some weird hybrid workpacks/parent teaching/unschool thing

National Curriculum suspended.
Parents not teaching children.

When private and schools around the world just put the teachers on live. Apparently England is so backwards and poor (compared to the rest of the covid countries) that state schools couldn’t possibly do this cos kids weren’t equipped

Very few UK schools give their staff laptops so rely on teachers funding the teaching of, er...your children out of their own pockets.
Many students don't have laptop of their own/at all/access to broadband

I’m both a teacher and a parent.
My son goes to school in Wales. He is year 10 going into year 11.

He has been offered 2 hours a week at his school. Pupils are in groups based on alphabetical order, not friends. He will not be learning...it is for checking in only.

The term has been extended for a week. So that’s a possible 2 extra hours. In exchange, my son will now lose a further 5 full teaching days in October.

As my son has been bullied in the past. Punched and filmed; had belongings stolen etc, I have decided I will not send him in for two hours of what is ultimately going to be form tutor time. Certainly not without a friend there anyway. So he just gets an extra week off next year when we could potentially have aimed to be back to normal.

Welsh Government have really ballsed this up.