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.

Why do they have to be worksheets the teacher had created?

Toasty that’s what I thought. I asked as you mentioned teaching and good to get insight.

Not sure what to do as Ds will be resistant to doing extra like Oak when he gets set exercises all day. But I can’t see that the class will progress that much if no lessons. Especially now reading pp provision.

He’s being really good too and doing it all without me having to tell him to but feel a bit stressed now.

Great idea tiny! Sharing's caring! Our school were rubbish last time but if there's anything decent this time I will Def share it

@MarshaBradyo
My advice to you and anyone else unhappy with what’s been provided:
Give them a couple of days. Most teachers had planned their normal lessons. It takes a while to convert all this into content suitable for home learning. So many teachers might not have been able to do this in time.
If it remains unfit for purpose, contact your school. Tell them your concerns. If you don’t let them know they can’t change it.
There may be good reasons for their decisions. Or there may not. But tell them.
Also. If your school is doing a good job please do tell them that too. It would mean a lot - as it means a HUGE logistical effort is working smoothly.

Oh just to add- remember schools were told at the same time you were. It’s a bit of a scramble even for the most organised!

We've had an "emergency inset day" today so nothing yet

Ok thanks. I thought it pretty good at tasks but just not sure how you learn new stuff.

I will give it some time but I think there probably is a valid reason then will have to work out what to do about it if it can’t change. Last time I just relied on Oak but I doubt Ds will double up he very much cares about following what school says he should do.

It's only Tuesday give them a a chance!! 😂

I teach in a private school and the kids are following a full timetable on teams. I teach them remote drama so nothing is cut.

My children go to a state primary and get one morning zoom call and then tasks on classroom. I'm busting my balls and I do wonder what some other teachers are doing once the work is online.

Better than last lockdown where they got a cut and pasted grid with links to bbc bitesize.

@Kitcat122

It's only Tuesday give them a a chance!! 😂

It could change yes. Or not. Not that hilarious

Reception child was homelearning yesterday and we had 5 zoom lessons, it was exhausting!
From tomorrow, reception child will have 3 zoom lessons a day and associated tasks set and year 4 child 4 zoom lessons and associated work. This is a state school (part of an academy).

The other teachers outing the work online might well be, um, teaching?
For many schools a good proportion of children are still in. It takes the same amount of time to teach 15 children as 30...

Ugh
Putting.

I teach year 1. We are giving a full timetable of lessons via Purple Mash. Maths, English and phonics daily, spelling and handwriting twice weekly, all foundation subjects. Videos recorded for most lessons. Flip charts (converted to pdfs), written activities made by us or sourced online, differentiated to the children. Instructions for practical activities. Story time with our class via zoom 3 x a week. Phoning children. Marking work and giving verbal (recorded audio) and typed feedback. I think our children are getting a good deal.

@Kitcat122

It's only Tuesday give them a a chance!! 😂

They've had months and months and months to prepare 😂😂

They were desperate to close 😂😂

I'm in a big school so whilst one teacher in my year group is teaching children of critical workers / vulnerable children, another will be setting the home learning. In smaller schools the teachers will be working late into the night to get it all done.

@Toastybutt

The other teachers outing the work online might well be, um, teaching? For many schools a good proportion of children are still in. It takes the same amount of time to teach 15 children as 30...

I thought they weren't teaching the children that were in school but instead directing them towards the online learning?

Or are the key worker children getting actual teaching, but in smaller classes and those of us with children at home are getting worksheets?

Pretty much all KS1 learning needs adult support, unfortunately.

What you want may be the opposite of what other families want.

I teach KS1. I try to provide a mix of videos, worksheets, online activities and printed packs to meet as many of the different families needs as possible. This is on top of being physically in school 3 out of 5 days as we have so many key worker and vulnerable pupils. We aren't doing live lessons as over half our parents when surveyed said they couldn't access them or didn't want them due to lack of online access/devices. KS1 pupils are not included in the government's programme to supply devices, which are not even available in the numbers promised to the older kids.

I have a mixed cohort with me in school, not just my own year group so I can't record/stream lessons even if that is what our families wanted. I think online learning for years R-3 is the most difficult of all and I would like to see the youngest ones back first when schools re-open, but I can also see why people would want the older ones back first.

I'm just hoping this lockdown and the vaccination programme will get numbers down relatively quickly.

They've had months and months and months to prepare 😂😂They were desperate to close 😂😂

No. Until the end of December we were teaching in person, setting work for isolating children alongside this and also dealing with difficult working conditions eg staggered starts, increased teaching time, increased duties etc. In my school we wanted to prepare for home learning over the Christmas holidays (which we are not paid for, incidentally) but were told not to by our head as he was sure we'd be back in class with our full cohort this week. So we planned and resourced this week's lessons for in-school teaching. Adapting that to go online, for infants, is time consuming.

And also, fuck off.

I have no issue if it’s going to take a week or so and will give it time. But if things can’t change I need to give it some thought.

They've had months and months and months to prepare

In the Autumn term we were preparing for short-term isolation periods. My class bubble burst and it was relatively easy to provide videos for most lessons for two weeks and a printed pack for those who preferred that because I was at home the whole time isolating too so I could dedicate my time to good provision for my class for a limited period. This time is much harder - it's for an indefinite period so requires different planning and has to be balanced with time in school as well as creating remote learning.

Honestly, it's shit and I would much rather be in class. But I am also in area where the infection rate is 1200+ and the local hospital is having to treat some patients in the car park.

We have had nothing for DD. Granted she's only in reception but all I've had is an email last night to inform of closure and a text to say they're posting work packs out 🙄

I highly doubt we'll have any online sessions and am fairly sure the work pack will be shit printed off twinkl.

It's ofsted outstanding in a nice area but my god I'm not impressed with them this year (she went to their nursery and it was great). They've not remotely started on blending sounds so looks like I'm going to focus on that with our own resources while juggling everything else.

Starting tomorrow we have full online timetable from 8.45 till 3.15! (Although one hour in afternoon will be offline whilst they complete the topic work). Feeling very lucky we have enough devices for us all and good wifi!

I have Y3 and Reception children. Both groups have some videos and printable worksheets for this week. No zoom lessons or any interaction with teachers at all. It was the same last time so I'm not expecting any improvement.

We have a mixture of live lessons and activities yr 1 and reception to do each day.
The teachers were out delivering workpacks to the whole school today.