If you're WFH FT when are you doing the homeschooling?

[Fressia123]

Just received the task list for the week, and TBF can't complain in the end as it's quite thorough. However it would need for me to teach her as it's not as simple. I work FT and finish around 6 as I also work around our toddler. So when do I do it?

I had key worker school support last time but I don't this time and I'm struggling. The lessons seem well planned and DD (5) enjoys them but DS (8) is the world's worst procrastinator and cannot keep his bum in his seat for a hot minute. One of his lessons today was to copy out some spellings changing the ending é.g. healthy to healthily and it took over an hour of summoning him back to his seat, and saying "now do the next one. And the next one" and of course every time I turned to DD to get her a glass of water or help her with a tricky bit of tech support (the lessons are all PowerPoint lessons which don't work on their tablets so when the slide provides a link I have to type it into the browser) he was gone like a shot.

I've had two meetings today in the morning and afternoon but done nothing much in between times - I have a big chunk of work I've done two sentences at a time on and keep having to restart because I've forgotten with all the constant interruptions.

I want a nap and a large glass of red wine neither of which will help me work better or educate better but I might FEEL better. --

On the other hand I can now teach a split digraph so there is that....

It's a logistical nightmare, mine are 7 and 10 and although school do an hour Teams call for each, they're at separate times of the day and I still have to supervise in between, juggling devices, art, maths, english, bbc bitesize, then uploading the work that they have completed too. I'm probably managing an hour of work if I'm lucky.

Good job January is a quiet time work-wise. I try and do a bit in the evening though but tbh i'm worn out from the day and just want to slump on the sofa!

The lessons and worksheets are uploaded so can be done anytime. We only have to hand it the literacy on the day, maths we mark ourselves and send the mark in, the others are done in a workbook to take in when they go back.
DH and I are both KW but are luckily working from home at the moment so can keep ds home even though he has a place if needed. It also helps I only work 5 hours a day. We're doing literacy in the morning before I start work and then the rest when I finish at 3. Will do the weekly spellings over the weekend.
I do feel it's just about manageable , but would struggle if I was full time or had more dc to be honest.

Do you have a partner?
We are doing this: i work long days Monday and Tuesday to get my hours up and get as much done as possible whilst their dad does the home school.
On a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday I do this 8.30 - 10.00 and then 1.30 to 6.30, leaving the middle of the day to do home school.
I have an 8 year old and 13 year old.

I'm live 8.30 - 9.30. My class go away and do their set work.
I'm live with groups (most useful part of the day) 12.30 - 2.45.
Whole class live again at 3.15 - but for this one I can have my child with me.

Home schooling between 9.30 and 12.30. But an hour a day for a 6 year old is fine. She'll watch some telly, her dad will take her for a walk in the afternoon. Dull as shit for her though.

I switched my kids into a different school since last lockdown. There was no support from their old school. Basically we had a myriad of twinkl worksheets and left to get on with it. No feedback and didn’t want to mark any work done. They phoned the children once the entire time. Trying to motivate the children was impossible.

Now with the new school the teachers are hosting lessons online my kids are suddenly all sweetness and light, they sit and do the work and they get constant interaction with the teachers.

Learning from home can only work for an extended period of time for primary aged kids when the teachers are online live teaching. It’s made the whole thing a million times easier.

I also noticed that each year groups lessons were being run by 2 teachers. So the pressure was not on one teacher to run the whole thing.

Feeling secretly relieved that the offering from our school is shite. It is KS1 so not exactly intense but we get about 20 minutes a day, consisting of a link to Geraldine the giraffe, a link to BBC bite size and a link to the white rose worksheets.
Honestly, 20 minutes and they are done. So yes, I’m secretly relieved but also so so worried about how much they are missing out on.

My DH works 6.30-3, so I have the preschooler and help the older two with anything they need help with (secondary and yr 6). Then I work 3-10.

I’m praying another month or two (or 3) and we’ll never have to do this ever again.

I hope they don't start expecting ds 9 to sit at a laptop for live lessons! We have worked it out so he gets 2 good hours of 1:1 attention and support from one us of each day to do set tasks and reads to us in the evening. I spend hours in meetings so I can't sit next to him. DH needs to focus so he can't sit next to him.

I do have a DP but he works on site, he's back around 6, then we have dinner and bedtime is around 730-8. He will take unpaid leave once a week to help his DD.

My job ATM is "real-time" so can't do much in the evenings/weekend.

DH is ft I'm nearly ft. I spend 2 days in school and do long days, DH does one long day in the office on his own. We both get as much done in those days as possible. Then at home for DH it's two hours of work, 2 hours with the kids, more or less. My DH starts work at 5am most days and last night he finished work at 10pm. It's more manageable for me as I can get over half a weeks work done in 2 days at school, so the days I'm at home I'll do a bit before they get up, home school then more work when they watch a film. I'm hoping next week if they do a bit of this CBBC stuff I can work in the morning then do their set work from school in the afternoon.

I'd say we're pretty lucky in the grand scheme of things. Oldest DD is bright but distracted so she shuts herself in her room and plods away and mostly needs little input just she's very slow. Younger 2 are harder although I can see the jump in maturity in my Y2 from the first lockdown so she is actually able to do more independent work this time around. Youngest is in reception and his work is a shitshow in all honesty but he's trying and we basically just do very VERY short bursts.

If they had to do live school it would be a mess though. We need the flexibility to do work when we're free.

We are prioritising the most important bits, maths and English and then doing other bits if we can. I've told school. They said she should be doing it all. I've told them I will do what we can. It's absolute madness