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.

*but they’ve covered the ‘summer catch up’ angle.

Be careful what you wish for.

Personally I think if they run a scheme it will only be open to disadvantaged children run by volunteer teachers with set plans and free school meals.

Nobody else will get any schooling.

@ec "I dunno. Basically, I still cannot fathom why state schools striked out zoom live lessons" You wrote: Safeguarding.

"And did some weird hybrid workpacks/parent teaching/unschool thing" You wrote: "National Curriculum suspended. Parents not teaching children." I suggest you take a nifty at Article 26-1 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

ec "I dunno. Basically, I still cannot fathom why state schools striked out zoom live lessons" You wrote: Safeguarding

That's because safeguarding on Zoom is an issue. If you think it isn't best to check out with your school why so.

And did some weird hybrid workpacks/parent teaching/unschool thing" You wrote: "National Curriculum suspended. Parents not teaching children." I suggest you take a nifty at Article 26-1 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Don't tell me, tell the government.

camdennewjournal.com/article/schools-urged-to-provide-live-lessons-via-video-calls-during-lockdown

“I do want to make it clear that actually the decisions here do not rest with the local authorities. They do rest with the schools. We support, provide guidance, we encourage and we challenge, but every single state school in Camden is adjudged to be either ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ and we trust our schools’ leaders to make good decisions in terms of meeting the learning objectives for children.”

Tory group leader Councillor Oliver Cooper said he would like the council to encourage schools to move towards the remote working lessons via a screen, “even if it’s advisory”.

As the debate continued online, writer and entrepreneur Julia Hobsbawm said: “I think I speak for many parents of pupils in Camden’s secondary schools facing the prospect of no return before September, that we urgently need a published plan on virtual class teaching either by Zoom or by Teams/Office365. Currently there is completely inadequate provision.”

"Our schools face very different challenges but nevertheless, are we being ambitious enough? Are we doing enough to try and provide more than just material being uploaded on Google classroom, which is what is happening for my children?”

"The issue was raised at the first meeting of the Town Hall’s new cross-party Covid-19 Oversight Committee, which is examining Camden’s response to the coronavirus crisis and was itself using video technology so that councillors could take part from the safety of their homes.
Some fee-paying schools are teaching four hours of lessons in this way, but state secondaries in Camden are largely relying on pupils downloading material to learn from, the meeting heard."

Who gives a fuck about what some minor rag says?

I’m in a state school, I’ve been delivering Teams lessons.

However only 5 out of my class of 24 are bothering to attend.....and they are the clever ones....

I'm assuming the provision over the summer holidays will be similar to provision over the Easter & half term breaks - key worker & vulnerable children only and more like a holiday club than "school". Anything more will be a bonus. This is just a guess really

Since when have borough councillors been experts in pedagogy?

Doing something in NI the first 2 weeks of holiday apparently but for primary and early secondary

<a class="break-all" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-53057829?intlink_from_url=www.bbc.co.uk/news/coronavirus&link_location=live-reporting-story" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-53057829?intlink_from_url=www.bbc.co.uk/news/coronavirus&link_location=live-reporting-story

Encouraging news from Luxembourg

today.rtl.lu/news/luxembourg/a/1534745.html

What TheEmoji said is key. There's been so much clamour for live teaching in state schools, but one of the biggest problems is that the kids who would engage with it are the same kids who are already engaging successfully with whatever offline work has been set. The big divide isn't going to be between the private school kids and the engaged and motivated state school kids, even if their provision has been quite different - it will be between both of these groups and the kids who are unengaged. Because of this, the only way I can see any form of catch-up working is if it's universal and compulsory. Which means it would have to be September not summer, and the govt would have to bring back compulsory attendance ASAP (even if that's on a part time basis).

Yes, I've heard that argument too - that if there are summer schools it will be the hard-working, engaged and motivated ones who aren't behind anyway that will attend, while the disengaged, unmotivated and truly disadvantaged won't.

I think attendance at live lessons should be compulsory,just like attendance at school is.

However, before we do that, every child needs to be able to access an individual computer.

Although Teams can be downloaded onto a mobile...... and nearly all of them have a mobile....although some won’t be able to access it, l think a lot more could

I think attendance at live lessons should be compulsory, just like attendance at school is

Under lockdown at my school all live lesson were treated exactly the same as if at school, the roll was taken and absences recorded for the school to act on.