What online provision is your primary giving?

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My primary is stating that it is complying with DfE minimum guidance. We are getting worksheets and lesson plans uploaded, links to online lessons (from third parties) and one zoom call a week.

Am i being unreasonable to expect more? The KS1 lessons need almost permanent adult support and the lesson plans are really hard for me (as a non-teacher) to follow.

If it makes a difference, we're in an affluent area, the school is a pretty well funded faith school. I know we're on day 1 but I want to know whether we should be asking for better.

Y4 primary school. I’m very impressed, a vast improvement on last years twinkle sheets, workbook and minimal contact with the teacher. Dc has had live lessons from 9 am to 1 with breaks and pauses for reading etc. Afternoons are for solo work with a final zoom call at the end of the day.

Dc2 in Y2 prep isn’t back until Thursday. But I’m expecting a similar level of input on seesaw.

My only reservation is it’s been a very sedentary day and dc have had minimal exercise. I ended the session early for a dog walk and fresh air at 2.30pm.

Work set via an app, no online lessons, no calls, no live discussion. Last time we had spreadsheets and nobody marked or even asked after their work. They could have been building worlds on Minecraft for six weeks solid and the school would be none the wiser.

Normal school timetable live via Teams including assembles and kids asked to wear uniform. No parental input required apart from logging them on.

What are people doing if they only have one device that the children need to share? Mine are not having live lessons but were given a full day of work each on Teams. Because they were sharing we have only just finished the work now.

Have the schools provided devices?

One of my kids is having to make do with my phone.

Our school is proffering some BS of no Zoom lessons due to safeguarding & not being able to monitor what content is being screening to our children....so they don't trust their teachers then?!!?

Just say its due to tech issues than that, slightly more believable!

Three zoom sessions a day for my DS’s Primary. Same as when their class had to isolate.

Anyone else familiar with purplemash?

We stopped using it last time becayse I thought it was a cop out and not teaching them anything. Using that too. Very disappointed.

@Icenii

Anyone else familiar with purplemash?

We stopped using it last time becayse I thought it was a cop out and not teaching them anything. Using that too. Very disappointed.

Yes, its awful and our school is sadly relying on it heavily

Ours has improved from an almost non existent base but not as much as people here

Secondary is full school day as described

But primary is exercises set which does take time but wondering where the learning part comes in as no video time. I mean dc will do it well and maybe the odd link to a video but is it more extended homework and not necessarily new learning?

What are other people thinking about no lessons?

Im very familiar with purple mash.
We've got 4 lessons a day, all on purple mash powerpoint presentations.
One class teams meeting a week.
Seems like enough work, I'm worried about tech problems, we only have phones and a rubbish old tablet, no printer.

I have one in Y6 and one in Y9. Both state schools.

Both are in front of the teacher all day via Zoom with the rest of the class. Teachers teaching as if they are all in front of the class. Work pack sent home yesterday so they have the hard copies to work from.

Y9 is following the usual timetable with usual teachers via Teams.

Registration at 9 which is counted as attendance.

Time off for a break and lunch. Timetables sent via email so parents knows what the kids are up to.

DD primary is also still differentiating in maths as DD has a zoom link with another teacher as she is in a lower set.

Reasonably affluent area but the neighbouring schools are nowhere near as impressive according to local Facebook complaints.

I appreciate we are very lucky but I think this is the standard all schools should be told to achieve.

@realunicorn

Yr 6 - sign into google classroom, link to a meeting.

She's literally sat listening to her teacher do the normal school day, he screen shares the questions so they can see the questions ( before lessons he posts these as a file for those who prefer to have them printed and have access to a printer)

They all had a break at usual time - some stayed on the call and chatted some went away for snacks etc.

Lunchtime everyone logged off for an hour.

Then the afternoon lessons in real-time. The day finished with sir reading some of the class story as usual and then they did a pe lesson.

Very very different to the first lockdown when they all had to fend for themselves. It appeared to go very smoothly.

Same here but on Teams. 5 x lessons daily to normal school timetable

Resources available to fill in online or on paper.

Workbooks will be sent home this week.

@Elzbells

I have one in Y6 and one in Y9. Both state schools.

Both are in front of the teacher all day via Zoom with the rest of the class. Teachers teaching as if they are all in front of the class. Work pack sent home yesterday so they have the hard copies to work from.

Y9 is following the usual timetable with usual teachers via Teams.

Registration at 9 which is counted as attendance.

Time off for a break and lunch. Timetables sent via email so parents knows what the kids are up to.

DD primary is also still differentiating in maths as DD has a zoom link with another teacher as she is in a lower set.

Reasonably affluent area but the neighbouring schools are nowhere near as impressive according to local Facebook complaints.

I appreciate we are very lucky but I think this is the standard all schools should be told to achieve.

That is so much better I’m also concerned about lack of differentiation

I’m shocked that schools are still just using twinkl etc! We were told to be ready in Oct even though it’s a bit last minute this time.
We are doing staggered online live lessons - maths and English every day per year group. We can’t overload on this due to families with multiple children. Then reading comprehension work every day and topic tasks all set on Google classroom - and expectation that staff will be online 9-3 to support and monitor work etc. We have half staff doing online and half doing key worker lessons. Then a couple of staff working from home calling children who don’t show up etc. Paper packs sent as absolute last resort for a very few children who are not able to access online. Also set up extra sessions online for children who are struggling to keep up.
I can assure you we are not sitting on our arses. I would take it up with the school if work is not provided.

Microsoft teams meeting at 9am & 3pm.
Morning one will discuss the work for the day, morning prayer & any questions.
Afternoon one goes through the work for the day with a little quiz on the work set & afternoon prayer.
9.15-12.15 they have SPAG, English & maths.
Twice a week live music lesson at 1 and live french lesson at 2, both 45 mins.
The other 3 afternoons are a mix of science, geography, history, RE, art and PE.

They’ve asked parents with more than one child in school to go to school between 1-3 today to collect a laptop so each child has their own device to work on.

I really cannot fault them in any way.

This is a Catholic state school, fairly small. 1 class per year with 30 in each class.

Toasty do you think it’s possible for students to actively learn and move forward without lessons?
If they just do exercises?

For reception it was read your school reading book, go on reading eggs and complete the activity set on mathletics.

We had a whole class isolation period in October and I’m expecting 4 pieces of work a day. We had phonics, literacy, numeracy and on other (PE, RE, creative). They were interesting, engaging and bloody difficult to do with two full time jobs.

In addition (as DC asked to do it) we read an extra book, did a read write inc work sheet, did a small Lego kit and went for a walk with the Christmas present camera where we took photos of the letters making up her name and looked for digraphs. I thought it would just be car registrations, but we found loads.

Oh and pop box boogie on milkshake this morning.

Prep school - Full online teaching timetabled from 8.30 to 3 (Y5) with resources uploaded to Firefly beforehand. No intervention from me. Kids in uniform. Head has a skeleton plan in place before the holidays as he was anticipating this. Impressed with the provision.

@PolarExpressislate

A few links to sites, a work pack which is not marked, no online lessons because according to the school not every one has internet access. I am sick of teachers now, sat on their arses for another couple of months getting full pay whilst our children's education is non existent .

sat on their arses

Where else are they supposed to sit?

@MarshaBradyo well they can practise skills but new learning needs teaching really.
We would do more live lessons and did when just one year group was off- but the families just don’t have the devices and the government didn’t provide what it said it would of course.
I think most of our families would not be able to do 9-3 online all day so not sure we should all be doing that.

Reception age child here getting two live sessions daily (phonics in the morning, storytelling and sharing with the class in the afternoon) plus a daily timetable of online work that is well organised and has lots of variety to appeal to different children.
The teacher is brilliant on the live sessions and it is wonderful because he gets the key worker children in school and the children at home all joining in together as a class. Hats off to him!

Year 5 - task one - timetables rockstars, task two - write a diary entry/story , task three- make someone smile. That's All!!

DD has been given worksheets on Google classroom. No Zoom/Teams meetings. No contact with the teacher, other than uploading the completed worksheets.

It's a shitshow, basically. I'm sure her teachers will say that they are "on their knees" and "worked into the ground", they aren't even worksheets the teachers have created