How much contact has your primary school aged child had with their teacher?

[georgedawes]

Please can you tell me how much contact your primary school aged child has had with their teacher since March. I'm specifically asking for kids not yet back in school and not about emails with work set etc, but actual direct contact (telephone, zoom etc etc) with their teacher.

My reception age DD is now back at school but before she went back in June, she had had zero contact in any form.

Thanks user. I'm not trying to start a teacher bashing thread, just genuinely interested. Maybe I should've asked for contact with parents too.

None

Not too bad here, a call every couple of weeks and an email or a couple of emails in between.

None

Two class zooms and bumped in to her in the street. They are final year group too so not even going back in September!

Nothing at all.

DS2 is year 5. I have had contact with the teacher, led by me but the teacher has been very quick to reply to my emails. DS has had no contact with his teacher.

Please could you say what year your children are in? Should've asked in my OP. My child is yr5 and we've had no direct contact at all.

1 phone call at the end of April.

DD is year 3, no contact at all. I tried to invite teacher and TA on a class zoom I was arranging and both declined. Other schools in the area have had a lot more interaction so some of us are a bit disappointed by the lack of contact

Thanks everyone. Seems similar to our experience for a lot of you. Have you had work set? We have but it is not teacher marked. Basically here is the work and then over to us.

As a parent we had one call towards the end of May, they were introducing an online learning system and it was to talk through that. That's the only direct contact we've had. Although the return to school has been very well managed.

She quit 2 weeks into lockdown so none

Whoever is covering her is doing much better at setting work tho so I'm not complaining!

Very limited work set too. Stuff posted on Tapestry but mainly links to stuff on Twinkl or YouTube stuff, we've mostly had to find stuff ourselves.

Year 5, no direct contact. Actually, that’s not entirely true, she did upload a video in March to class dojo.
Only a phone call after a distressed email from me.
His teacher has teens and was only rota’d in to school one day per week.
My eldest has had huge amounts of high school work but also no direct contact until 2 weeks ago when his maths teacher started delivering an hour per week over zoom. Year 8.

None. Her teacher called once in early June to check in but dd wasn't with me (it wasn't a scheduled call).

Y3 contact has been weekly email in response to submitted work. I class assembly.
Y6 use an online stream and their teacher has been responding to the class on there. Had a phone call from class teacher plus one from hlta re transition.

Y6 teacher is a good friend though so we've seen her when we've swapped books, plants, birthday presents, cakes etc in a socially distanced manner and I've spoken to her pretty much daily so unofficial intact is high - and probably formal contact would have been higher with others.

My two had weekly phone calls from their teachers at the beginning but after the Easter holidays they said the teachers would only be calling parents of vulnerable children. My year 5 has had weekly Zoom calls with his class where they have done quizzes etc, so that has been regular contact. The teacher has also regularly told the children that if they need any help or a phone call they can email him. Their work is set on google classroom and the teacher puts a message on every day welcoming them and saying something about the work which has been set for the day. My younger child is year 1 and went back to school in June. Before then they had a couple of class zooms but it didn’t work so well for that age group!

Hardly any work for year 5 either, until a a few weeks ago.

One phone call since march (no option to hand on line learning in either so this is literally the only contact).

Oh year four

Seems a similar experience across the board. I've been really supportive of schools as I know how tough the situation is (key worker) but am saddened actually that there is basically no plan to interact at all with my child from march til sep.

Y1 pupil- 2 phone calls to me, no Zoom or similar but children encouraged to email and teacher will respond.

OH is a Y3 teacher and did a day of google hangout (8am-5 with a quick bit of lunch and loo breaks in between) to any pupils/families who wanted to, most did and it was a long day sat at a computer!

Year 3 here. Has had a weekly class zoom with the teacher for the last 3 weeks. Nothing interactive before that.

Since Easter the year group teachers have done a 5 min video each week uploaded to purple mash that the kids can watch on a Monday morning just saying Hi and what kind of work will be set for them that week.