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What are your primary schools remote learning plans?

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KiwiKit · 02/01/2021 20:21

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?

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Ginandshinythings · 02/01/2021 20:46

@wentworthprison I agree with you. Sadly the late calls by government backfire on teachers, support staff and heads. Basically anyone a parent or carer can have words with because obviously they can't do the same to a member of the government.

I understand the frustration of parents, I really do, but school staff are feeling just as frustrated, it's very last minute for them too.

Added to the fire is parents seeing how different provisions are coping and at what standards, this then makes individual school's jobs even harder.
It's a bitter situation for all involved.

iluvsummer · 02/01/2021 20:46

We do live checkins on a mon and fri 9am, then mon-fri a 45 min live lesson in morning to go over the learning for the am and repeated after dinner for the pm lesson. Phone calls home daily to those who aren’t engaging online for whatever reason. All lessons, bespoke tutorials and resources will be available online for children to access at any time. Learning uploaded will be given feedback, feedback will also be given orally during the live sessions. Paper packs will be sent home to those who do not have tech but we will try and provide tech for those who need it from our school supplies. That is for foundation phase. KS 2 have an additional session in the afternoon.

StormyInTheNorth · 02/01/2021 20:46

@WentworthPrison Well you are going to have to try. Or you school/LA/Union is going to have to put something in place. I had no support last time. It was just me and DD for weeks in end with unsuitable 'work' in an unuseable format shived online.
Yes. I am angry. I am not sure who with but my DD has a right to an education. The state/LA needs to provide it and you are employed to teach it. It's not fucking hard to produce either a youtube vid or even 15 mins of phonics on zoom. Come on.

CheckMyLeftPhalange · 02/01/2021 20:46

Have a look at The Oak Academy. Loads of lessons on there. A full curriculum in fact.

Kjc39 · 02/01/2021 20:47

My children are in high school. From what I can see it’s just worksheets again. No meaningful education. Last time hardly anything got marked. The Keyworker children are just going to the Ict hubs and will be doing the same online learning at school. So teachers will hardly be teaching them either.

TheEchtMeaningofChristmas · 02/01/2021 20:47

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

Yes it is. It's one of the range of activities that is advised by the DoE as suitable:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/remote-education-good-practice/remote-education-good-practice

It's one I used sparingly myself (I no longer teach remotely but did so for seven months), but it's entirely OK. If you don't like what your school is providing you need to take it up with them.

Babamamasheep · 02/01/2021 20:48

@KiwiKit can you ask the school for their reasoning? We’re offering several online sessions each day, these can be live or recorded depending on year (I’m EYFS so we do all live so i can encourage/physically see work as it’s done) but there must be 2 check ins offered for every year. Work submitted and feedback given for 3 lessons a day, paper and physical resources (pens, paper and laptops etc where needed- it’s a fairly deprived area) went home weeks ago to support this so we’re good to go in case of another bubble closure. My school has had most years out at some point.

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KiwiKit · 02/01/2021 20:48

@WentworthPrison I hate being on camera too! I can see why that would stress you out. I hear you and your concerns are valid. I really am just so worried about my DS. He is dyslexic and is falling behind. It’s really hard.

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Kjc39 · 02/01/2021 20:49

Myself and my husband will have to be the teachers I guess, as well as working ourselves. My 14 year has bought herself gcse revision guides. “So I can teach myself,” she said. Disgusting!!
We both have degrees and are fairly knowledgeable, but what about parents who can’t help. Lots of children didn’t do any home learning last time.

TheEchtMeaningofChristmas · 02/01/2021 20:50

[quote StormyInTheNorth]@WentworthPrison Well you are going to have to try. Or you school/LA/Union is going to have to put something in place. I had no support last time. It was just me and DD for weeks in end with unsuitable 'work' in an unuseable format shived online.
Yes. I am angry. I am not sure who with but my DD has a right to an education. The state/LA needs to provide it and you are employed to teach it. It's not fucking hard to produce either a youtube vid or even 15 mins of phonics on zoom. Come on.[/quote]
The union has nothing to do with online teaching.

If you don't like what your school is providing, take it up with the school:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/remote-education-good-practice/remote-education-good-practice

WentworthPrison · 02/01/2021 20:50

Stormy - with all due respect you wouldn't know whether it was hard or not if you've not done it.

Armi · 02/01/2021 20:51

[quote KiwiKit]@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.[/quote]
Contact your school. Your issue is with them. Poor souls.

StormyInTheNorth · 02/01/2021 20:52

I was once a trainer before I gave up work to look after DD who has SEN. I can deliver online.

Armi · 02/01/2021 20:52

@StormyInTheNorth

I was once a trainer before I gave up work to look after DD who has SEN. I can deliver online.
Perhaps you could live steam for the nation,then.
DrRamsesEmerson · 02/01/2021 20:54

Plans, you say ? No idea.

Armi · 02/01/2021 20:55

*Stream not steam

Apologies for typo. I am posting on MN whilst simultaneously doing the planning required to ruin the life chances of an entire generation, like many of my colleagues.

StormyInTheNorth · 02/01/2021 20:56

Fine. I will. I'd likely do a better job. I shall offer my services to the head monday morning and report back.

Alright. I sound like a dick. Everyone's terribly anxious and I shouldn't take it out on random teachers but I like everyone else I am struggling to find the reserves for another god knows how many weeks of home ed.

Mumofsend · 02/01/2021 20:57

I time table of which oak academy videos to watch each day

Armi · 02/01/2021 20:57

@StormyInTheNorth

Fine. I will. I'd likely do a better job. I shall offer my services to the head monday morning and report back.

Alright. I sound like a dick. Everyone's terribly anxious and I shouldn't take it out on random teachers but I like everyone else I am struggling to find the reserves for another god knows how many weeks of home ed.

Yes, you do sound like a dick. Have a good evening.
WentworthPrison · 02/01/2021 20:58

Good for you stormy. Perhaps you could offer me some training.

On a different note, I never signed up to be filmed/recorded doing my job. I 100% don't want to do this. I'd be happy to teach face to face: individuals, groups or my whole class. I just do not want to filmed doing my job and shouldn't be asked to.

Ginandshinythings · 02/01/2021 20:58

@stormyinthenorth you are absolutely right to be angry in regards to your child's education, but her teacher has the right to a safe working environment.

It's not just delivering one lesson fits all though is it... As a trained teacher you would know this. Lessons are aimed at different individual needs, high, medium, low groups. Times that by thirty, cover all subjects, touch base, respond to emails, mark the work and continue to teach key children too. It's not that black and white.

Ofsted were due to re start too, another added pressure.

Lanzo · 02/01/2021 20:59

My children are having a full timetable of lessons, same as last lockdown, including form time and PE etc. I am also teaching all my lessons online. It isn’t anything like as good as being in school but it is better than nothing.

peacockfeather11 · 02/01/2021 20:59

First lockdown we had lots and lots of worksheets. 2 pre-recorded reading videos (teacher reading a passage). No-one marked work/called/replied to emails or messages from March-July. It was as though she didn't exist. I stopped her doing it after I realised all the above.

During 2 week close-contact isolations we had lots of worksheets that needed to be printed off and uploaded back onto Google Classroom. It felt like a lot of time was spent printing/uploading. Again, not marked at all or any feedback.

School will not agree to live teaching of any sort. Many parents have requested this.

BunsyGirl · 02/01/2021 21:00

@WentworthPrison I am expected to give training sessions to clients. These would normally be face to face. I don’t particularly like them as I am a lawyer not a teacher and have not had any teacher training whatsoever. The client training sessions are now done online, over Zoom etc. I like them even less but I don’t refuse to do them. It’s part of my job. Surely, for someone who gets up and talks in front of 30+ people day in day out, it’s can’t be a massive jump to provide a live online lesson?

MsJuniper · 02/01/2021 21:00

The school where I work has a tech-minded HT and in March we started training the children to use Google Classroom and Meets.

From the first day of lockdown we were online 9.30-3.30, providing lesson presentations and online support to complete 4 pieces of work per day. The aim was for minimal parental input so there would be equality of access as much as possible. All children who needed one were provided with a Chromebook and daily calls were made if children did not join their meets.

TAs checked attendance, marked work and provided small group spelling, arithmetic and intervention sessions which ran throughout the day. I've never been busier.

We are ready to do the same again from Tuesday!