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.

Actually just teacher’s voice in video. Doesn’t need to be face ;

But more that they feel connected to school

Just a few uploaded worksheets. The whole system has repeatedly crashed today. Not great.

3 live on line linteractive lessons, each followed by an assignment which is assessed.

State school, reception year.

Very, very impressed

From Monday we will have 3 x 30 minute daily Zoom calls with work being set for after the call. They will also do a weekly call with a TA to do reading or times tables etc. I'm really impressed, I think they have a nice balance of structure without too much pressure.

We started properly today. 30 min teams call in morning then 30 mins after lunch. Clear guidance about what to do between each session so kids can't race ahead (dd1.....)

Kids like seeing their peers and it gives structure to the day so already better than previously. Their teacher is new though so bit of a bumpy landing for her!

We’ve just received guidelines for our Y2 child. Lessons 8.30-3.30. It seems it’ll be a mixture of Zoom and Seesaw. They expect uniform to be worn and attendance is mandatory for all sessions as records are being fed back to DFE apparently.

It does seem far more demanding than my Y4 child at state primary, who seemingly only get taught in the mornings with afternoons being optional. I hear others in their class going for runs, playing video games and watching movies!

Lots and lots of worksheets and not a whole pile else. Can email them if we want them marked but not compulsory. Doesn't seem to be any distinction made for childs needs, one one mine has some SEN but getting same work as rest class and its far too much. There is no way with 2 kids, and both us working we are going to be able to keep up to date

We’ve had a few twinkl worksheets and nothing else same as last time. I’m furious to be honest.

We are year 1

We Have approx 80 kids. There’s 3 teachers and 6 learning assistants. We asked if we could expect any live learning be told no. Apparently 25% of the year are in as key worker children and that’s taking up all the teachers time. I fail to see how it takes 9 staff to supervise a quarter of the year group.

The work set is covering stuff that they did in October. It took less than 10 mins to do the entire week’s maths work

I literally don’t know how to react right now

Pink that’s terrible. There’s a link earlier on to government guidance for what has to be delivered.

First I’d look at that and use it as basis to contact school.

Y3 ds: 30 minute zoom call at 9am where they do register as a class and she talks through the work for the day. Mostly using oak academy for maths, English and science, they have links for the 2 maths provisions used by schools where they also set daily challenges and they also like children to read daily. Completed work can be uploaded to dojo and teacher has been very prompt at uploading and commenting on it with feedback today. Second 30 minute zoom at 2:30 where they go over the work and teacher reads some of the story they are studying.
Y10 ds: work set daily through teams following the timetable with teachers available in chat if needed, all of it combined takes no more than 30 minutes so I have told ds from tomorrow to message teachers each lesson if he completes the work to see what else he should do as there is very little coming through. Today was a 5 minutes worksheet for chemistry, oak academy for English which they have done before and maths sheet. Not sure if it’s ds not putting in the effort to do more off his own back or if they are a little behind the curve as it is a very small amount of work for a year 10, except history which seem to set an appropriate amount for the lesson

It’s such a mixed bag.

Our school is astounding. I know we are incredibly lucky full timetable 9-3:30pm. State school.

Live teaching, live support and chat. Run through teams and One note.

Registration, assembly, English, break, maths, lunch, get active, afternoon lesson (varies re, phse, online, music, art, coding etc) then finished with 30 minutes Of story time.

Year 3 and above have all been sent home books, and a device. Year 2 and below could request a device.

The staff are working so hard and doing such an amazing job.

Hats off to parents who are working and not getting this provision!!! To be honest even if you aren’t working without this provision it would be hard!!!

Three live lessons online a day in English, Maths and another subject. It’s day one of home schooling and already I feel exhausted by it all.

pink we've exactly the same, it's why I created some threads in Primary Education to help those in a similar boat.

They get the kids to log onto Google Classrooms first thing. I don't know whether that's an ass covering thing, I think it might be, to avoid DfE attention.

Wow looks like schools have done really well to get so much high quality work up and running. I expect these are mostly the tier 4 schools and schools that knew they would be shut. Schools that were told they would definitely-absolutely-for certain- be up and running will be providing live lessons because there’s no way they’ll have had time to prepare anything else. People seem to love the live lessons. I guess that’s families with one computer per person in the family!

For us it's Twinkl worksheets yet again, an absolute disgrace. Have gone straight to Oak Academy this time and will just focus on maths, English and outdoor exercise.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/teacher-assessed-grades-gcse-a-level-gavin-williamson/?fbclid=IwAR38p4iKiVEAXBL6TVpKsu7YQ4L73gNDAYz0iPw85ORdERIm70d4r-vv0

Mr Williamson said schools in England are "much better prepared than last March" to implement home-learning.
He said: "We are far better placed to cope with it than we were last March.
"We are now better prepared to deliver online learning, this is an important step forward in supporting children to make the progress with their education that they so desperately need, and we'll also do what we can to help their parents."
He added: "We have set out clear, legally binding requirements for schools to provide high-quality remote education. This is mandatory for all state-funded schools and will be enforced by Ofsted.
"We expect schools to provide between three and five hours teaching a day, depending on the child's age. If parents feel their child's school is not providing suitable remote education they should first raise their concerns with the teacher or headteacher and, failing that, report the matter to Ofsted."

@marshmallow Is this for primary or just secondary? Our school is not providing any teaching so far, only links to YouTube, White Rose and Twinkl. Piecemeal and not possible to complete without constant parental input.

Ds (y1)has had 4 short teams meetings today with a task set after each one to complete independently. Individual reading sessions will happen at least once a week on teams. DS needed supervising throughout to keep him engaged but the tasks weren't to difficult for parents to try and complete with them.
I'm hoping as time goes on he will need less supervision as he gets used too this new way of learning.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/actions-for-schools-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak/guidance-for-full-opening-schools#res

@marshmallowfluffy

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/teacher-assessed-grades-gcse-a-level-gavin-williamson/?fbclid=IwAR38p4iKiVEAXBL6TVpKsu7YQ4L73gNDAYz0iPw85ORdERIm70d4r-vv0

Mr Williamson said schools in England are "much better prepared than last March" to implement home-learning.
He said: "We are far better placed to cope with it than we were last March.
"We are now better prepared to deliver online learning, this is an important step forward in supporting children to make the progress with their education that they so desperately need, and we'll also do what we can to help their parents."
He added: "We have set out clear, legally binding requirements for schools to provide high-quality remote education. This is mandatory for all state-funded schools and will be enforced by Ofsted.
"We expect schools to provide between three and five hours teaching a day, depending on the child's age. If parents feel their child's school is not providing suitable remote education they should first raise their concerns with the teacher or headteacher and, failing that, report the matter to Ofsted."

Interesting. So seems that we should go to the Headteacher (as they have decided the online provision) and then OFSTED. I might do that, actually.

Our school is doing 2x live zoom task introductions everyday, with tasks then completed either online or on worksheets sent home. The teachers are marking the work. The work is exactly the same as those in school.

Parents WhatsApp is a mix of "this isn't enough" and "how can I fit live lessons around my own work?" So I'm not sure it's possible to please everybody

YANBU

Each of my kids are getting three virtual classes per day.

I'm in a TA in work while our teacher is working from home which makes sense since we only have 7 children in from our class so it frees her up to manage things online and to answer any Dojo messages.

We have set it up so we have differentiated work set on Goggle Classroom with two live lessons a week (the children at home are doing the same work as those in school). The live lessons are on a rota to ensure there are no clashes between different year groups so that way siblings will not be effected.

We have also been doing video calls so the children in school can see and speak to the children at home. The general expectation is that this is all compulsory and that work must be submitted so that our teacher can mark it from home.

We did our first live lesson today (recorded for safeguarding reasons) and it went very well. Just like a normal lesson in school in fact only it was done virtually.

I hope parents will be pleased, we have been working none stop to get it all up and running.

Year 1 and year 4
Each gets three zoom lessons a day between 30m and 1h, some tasks to do and submit to the teacher.

Y4 does it alone on Google classroom
Y1 writes and does the worksheets and we photograph and upload to a teacher page

I'm very happy with what we are getting, Yr 2

9am teacher video to introduce the day
3 teacher videos in English, Maths and a foundation subject with associated tasks to complete
3pm daily Zoom with the class to say hi to teacher and friends, ask qs
Teacher also fully available on Class Dojo messages all day

This works for us as we've been tag teaming between one working and one with my son. Along with breaks we've just finished at 4.30! I'm knackered! Videos are better than live lessons so we can both fit it around our meetings.

Teacher has also messaged to me to say she will be providing differentiated maths from next week, as my son and a few others need more challenge. I can't ask for more really.