@Manteo
What do primary schools have to have in place now? Since October I mean? My DDs school had 3 classes off isolating in December and it was the same as lockdown: worksheets uploaded to the school website and nothing else. No interaction, no videos, no marking. Should I expect more than this?
Your school should have a remote learning plan in place and should be able to share that with you if asked. We sent our updated plan out to all of our parents last half term, though it actually wasn't that much different to March. We just clarified our bubble isolation and individual self isolation plans really.
We are in infant school. For whole school/class bubble closures we provide (and did from March to the summer too) daily core subject lessons with pre recorded teaching videos made by our teaching staff with accompanying tasks and/or work sheet activities. Sometimes we may also refer and link to external learning videos if we would have used these in class too. On top of this each day there are 1-2 activities uploaded for the other non-core subjects. These are a mix of activities (worksheets, onscreen activities, off tech activities, Kahoot! quizzes, etc) and may have been produced by our staff or be linked to external providers such as oak academy or bitesize, where appropriate. There are also standard weekly tasks which are uploaded every week, regardless of school closed or open such as reading diaries, etc. Copies of all work are also uploaded to a google drive for those parents who prefer to print them out and complete offline.
The lessons provided match what was due to be taught in classes at that time. In the case of class closure it will replicate, where possible, what the other classes in the year group are doing in school.it may not be exactly the same but will link to it as much as possible.
We do not do live lessons as these are not felt to be the more effective or appropriate format for our school catchment and it isn't some]thing our parents wanted. We also have a high number of KW and vulnerable children so many staff are in school full time so live lessons aren't really an option.
All work is uploaded to the learning platform and class teaching staff will monitor this and provide some feedback. Our children are very young though, so the feedback is fairly restricted in order to be suitable for them. We have a messaging and email service for parents if. there are concerns or more feedback needed.
For longer term closures we would have some telephone contact with all pupils, but not many as our feedback was that it wasn't particularly required. If someone wasn't seen to be engaging with remote learning we would be in contact though. Our vulnerable children have regular telephone contact, and some doorstep contact, as required.
For individual SI cases it's a slightly different.