What are your primary schools remote learning plans?

[KiwiKit]

Just that really. For those of you that are in areas where schools have shut. I’m not too pleased about what our school has put in place. No online lessons at all, just new work uploaded daily and a quick group call on a Monday morning and Friday afternoon. Exactly the same as the first time schools shut in March. My DS is in year 5. What are your schools doing?

Online lessons doesn't necessarily equal better you know.

I'm a teacher and I've been in no way trained to teach online.

@WentworthPrison but surely it’s better than nothing at all? What would you suggest then? The lessons don’t even have to be live.

Why is it better than the work provided? They aren't giving you "nothing at all".

We had nothing in first lock down. DS2 (in yr1) was in isolation in December and had 3 half hour lessons a day ( they sometimes went over - up to 45 mins) with 3 linked worksheets (differentiated for ability) per day.

I am hoping for the same for my Y3 DTs. It’s plenty to keep them going. Along with some I. Line resources and home reading and making sure they get a good run around every day.

And how do you propose I'll do online lessons while teaching the key worker children too?

Purple Mash.

Worksheets on teams, nothing live at all.

@WentworthPrison because they aren’t being taught anything by a teacher? Providing a work sheet really is ‘nothing at all’. It’s not a lesson, it’s something I can get from the internet myself. Why are you so defensive? As a parent I have a right to be concerned about my child’s education.

I’m confused about the ‘teaching the key worker children’ comment, I thought the hubs were childcare where they did the work set by their own teacher?

@IfIHadAHeart

Purple Mash.

Us too. Same as the first lockdown.

What you have been given is online.

If you mean live lessons, then you need to say so.

I can't see that any specific training would be needed. The key worker children are in the classroom with you as you deliver the lesson the children not allowed in engage on teams or similar.

Sorry I should say that nothing isn’t correct but we had no online classes at all, one very basic maths worksheet per day which took my very able 7yo 3 mins to complete. And then an overly complex English worksheet booklet which took too much interpretation and didn’t have enough teaching resources with it at the right level to allow me to help bridge the gaps. We relied on bought workbooks instead as well as reading eggs as a not great but better than nothing resource

@FreeButtonBee that sounds great! Seems like your school is doing a really good job. I’d be really happy with a plan like that. Especially for core subjects.

It’s not online lessons is it? There’s not lesson or teaching

DD was yr 1 now yr 2. Last time we just got weekly worksheets. I arranged with a couple of her friends to do a skype each morning whichwirked well most days.

We are tier 4 but currently due to go to school on monday. We are considering keeping her home as dh is vulnerable.

@TheEchtMeaningofChristmas live lessons, prerecorded lessons, that sort of thing. A worksheet is not an online lesson is it?

@KiwiKit

Just that really. For those of you that are in areas where schools have shut. I’m not too pleased about what our school has put in place. No online lessons at all, just new work uploaded daily and a quick group call on a Monday morning and Friday afternoon. Exactly the same as the first time schools shut in March. My DS is in year 5. What are your schools doing?

Complain to the school, then.

I’m sure they will be delighted to hear from you, as term hasn’t even started and you’re already moaning.

I'm not being defensive. I just think schools can't win. We haven't even been told if we are open or closed on Monday. How is that conducive for us planning high quality learning? It's not. I've never done video lessons or live online lessons. I wouldn't know where to start and I honestly despise seeing myself on screen. There's also the potential for parents to film me teaching which some irate parents are actually highly likely to do.

It's a bit like asking a contractor to do a job remotely. It's a completely different job and skill set. I'm not an actress or a computer expert. I'm an expert at face to face teaching as that is what I'm trained to do and have 15 years of experience in.

When you complain make sure you ask the school if they’ve had enough money to provide teachers with laptop, cameras and microphones for online lessons. There’s no money for this in many schools!!!

They don't know yet if they are open or closed

First lockdown, our teacher focused on teaching the key worker children (off the record they said it was wonderful to have such a small class and be able to give them so much individual attention). For those not at school we were sent a few worksheets and directed to bbc bitesize links etc. Never had an online lesson although got sent a couple of videos of teacher reading a story.

We did not find this helpful and bought resources instead - Bond books, twinkl and tynker subscriptions, etc. It wasn’t cheap :(

Have taken him out of school now and doing our own thing for a bit.

The school reviewed their online provision this September and sent out a remote learning plan. Expectations all round are much clearer than lockdown 1. They provided plenty of material in the first lockdown but it was a struggle for us to access it as it required printing. It was difficult as some parents struggled to do anything and others were asking for more and more work to fill the time.

They have switched from Purple Mash to SeeSaw.

Registration will happen at 9 everyday and then there is work to do each day. It should take 1.5 hours for my year 2 child and 30 mins for the nursery child. Work needs to be submitted daily and no work for 2 days means a phone call.

@Armi ffs why is everyone getting so defensive? I’m curious about what other schools have in place and I’m not too keen on lockdown 2.0 seeing as the plan put in place first time around didn’t exactly work did it?! Children fell behind, people joked about giving up on home schooling. It was a shambles.