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School only providing 1 hour of live interaction a day!

584 replies

NotLookingTooGood · 07/01/2021 10:25

What is everyone's school experience? I am going a little crazy. We have live online learning of 2 increments of 30mns (maths & english) a day + homework that we have to supervise.

What is everybody else's experience?
The school is relying entirely on us to do the work.

OP posts:
Billi77 · 07/01/2021 10:26

10 mins a week live interaction. The rest is daily tasks. But DD is in reception

herecomesthsun · 07/01/2021 10:27

we have asynchronous learning and it is working, albeit with support from us

Delatron · 07/01/2021 10:28

20 mins of live interaction x2. No lessons. Rest is worksheets. All day.

ivfbeenbusy · 07/01/2021 10:28

You can apparently make a complaint to ofsted if you feel that what the school is providing is sub standard

Findahouse21 · 07/01/2021 10:29

None from our school, work is set via email on a Friday for the following week for us to send in daily. If we don't email work daily they chase us, but they don't give a shit about making contact themselves. Year 1.

LynetteScavo · 07/01/2021 10:30

No live online learning.

They will provide some recorded lessons and teachers are available by email.

I wouldn't dream of complaining to Ofsted.

cantthinkofanythingwitty · 07/01/2021 10:32

I'm teaching live for 30mins per 1hr lesson and then a 30min task based on the live teaching if that makes sense.

5 x lessons a day

cantthinkofanythingwitty · 07/01/2021 10:32

Secondary school

Mumofsend · 07/01/2021 10:32

They don't have to provide any live at all. An hour sounds a good balance.

PurpleDaisies · 07/01/2021 10:32

Is this primary or secondary?

Daydreamermummy · 07/01/2021 10:33

We have been sent a grid for each day with links to bbc bitesize and whiterose maths and that's it.

noblegiraffe · 07/01/2021 10:35

No requirement for schools to provide live lessons, however they should be providing links to some recorded content (e.g. oak academy, bitesize or self-recorded videos) for explanations.

IggyAce · 07/01/2021 10:36

Primary or secondary?
Ages of children?
You do realise that primary schools are facing a bit of a planning nightmare because they have to schedule live lessons so they don’t clash with another year groups in case someone has more than 1 child in the school and limited access to tech. Schools are doing their bloody best with little notice and the government don’t seem to have provided the extra laptops & tablets they promised.
My ds will have live English & Maths lessons via zoom the rest of the work is set via seesaw or workbooks that are in the home school pack provided.
I’m very happy with the planned work provided, please remember your child isn’t the only child in the school and schools are doing their very best for all children.

PurpleDaisies · 07/01/2021 10:36

@ivfbeenbusy

You can apparently make a complaint to ofsted if you feel that what the school is providing is sub standard
That’s using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Hmm
InterfectoremVulpes · 07/01/2021 10:37

At our primary we get a daily 40 minute zoom with follow up tasks for maths, English and another subject such as history/geography. Then there's stuff like TTrockstars and MyOn that he is expected to do 30 mins on each every day. So about 2.5 hours a day which seems reasonable to me.

Twobrews · 07/01/2021 10:38

Two in primary.
One had a live 'Hello' with the whole class, all muted except the Teacher.
No other live sessions planned, a grid with kind of pick your own work and links to relevant sites and videos.
The other no live teaching, just a grid and links.
One in 6th form a mixture of live and recorded and uploaded sessions. Has to log on at certain times to match timetable.

tubbycustardtummyache · 07/01/2021 10:39

Sounds reasonable. I’m not a teacher (other frontline worker) but I can well appreciate the pressure they must be under. Trying to set online learning plus teach in school (they seem to be teaching this time round at school) following a term of doing their normal job plus also setting remote learning for children who are isolating. All of this without being allowed to wear PPE in class or without prioritising them for a vaccine.
And OFSTED seem to be encouraging parents to report distance learning when it is perceived to fall short.
I think teachers need to be given a break before there’s a mass walk out. Morale must be very low currently

MsJaneAusten · 07/01/2021 10:41

There are also at least three threads with complaints about too much live content...

Perfect28 · 07/01/2021 10:42

Think logically about live lessons. Whilst you may prefer them in your situation they are much harder for many students to access who have to share devices. They hugely increase inequality.

AngelicaElizaAndPeggy · 07/01/2021 10:43

I think give them the benefit of the doubt this week - they only found out about this from Boris on Monday night! It might take a few days for proper to ramp up as teachers sort out all their systems, communications and tech.

TheSeaMonkeyHasMyMoney · 07/01/2021 10:45

They can't win

A small amount of live interaction and they get criticised. Those with enough devices for their children, and enough Internet to stream live lessons all day, say they're not doing enough.

A large amount and those with several kids but only one device, or those with PAYG Internet access, can't have all of their children all accessing live lessons all day.

Cookiecrisps · 07/01/2021 10:46

The teachers at my school are teaching in school all day but on a rota as there is a high number of key worker and vulnerable children in (approx 2-3 full teaching days a week per teacher.

The rest of the time teachers are doing 1:1 video calls with children to discuss how they are getting on with the home learning 2x week (15 mins each) and 2x whole class zooms each week to keep in touch with the class. There is a daily plan for home learning with video link for children at home but no daily ‘live teaching.’ As we had no notice of the closure ahead of the general public, we’ve got as much of this up and running this week as we can.

I’d give the school a chance and contact the school directly (not Ofsted) next week if you still have concerns about contact.

frustrationcentral · 07/01/2021 10:46

Secondary and college here

DS1 - college virtual lessons - as if he's sat in the classroom as usual

DS2 - this week he has work set by the teachers that he would have seen had he been at school. Good quality work, power point presentations with voice recordings. Next week virtual lessons should happen and twice daily tutor time

CeeJay81 · 07/01/2021 10:46

No live interactive from year 2, primary here. Just work set to do and hand in. Can email the teacher with any issues.

Secondary lessons via Microsoft teams.

toothfairy73 · 07/01/2021 10:47

Daughter in year 3 has 2 recorded lessons a day, an hour live circle time contact with the teacher and a 20 minute catch up in her learning group once a week.

Daughter in year 9 has registration at 8:30, then live lessons throughout the day with a mixture of online resources. It's a lot of self study required. She has additional needs and cannot cope with this type of learning.