School only providing 1 hour of live interaction a day!

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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.

I don't know why you want live learning??? It's a nightmare for young kids. Constant noise and interruption and technical difficulties.. younger siblings screaming in the background.. it's terrible. Waiting on the call why know it all little kids unmute themselves and should out the answers.. kids who constantly "put up their hand" to tell the class it was their dog's birthday. I get it's nice for kids to see their friends but personally my kids are just sitting around wasting time while other kids slow them down. I prefer recorded lessons with the option to contact the teacher by at any point during the day for further support.

@TT23

I don't know why you want live learning??? It's a nightmare for young kids. Constant noise and interruption and technical difficulties.. younger siblings screaming in the background.. it's terrible. Waiting on the call why know it all little kids unmute themselves and should out the answers.. kids who constantly "put up their hand" to tell the class it was their dog's birthday. I get it's nice for kids to see their friends but personally my kids are just sitting around wasting time while other kids slow them down. I prefer recorded lessons with the option to contact the teacher by at any point during the day for further support.

Agree so glad we don’t have live for primary

My partner is a secondary school languages teacher. Providing live lessons working from home per normal timetable throughout the day. Then spending several hours after school day and most of the time weekends preparing PowerPoint lessons, worksheets, tests, knowledge organisers for the various year groups, and providing individual feedback on homework submitted by students (typically photos of what they have written down, and emailed). Most evenings working until 10ish, with perhaps an hour or so break for dinner and give her own three school age children (two in primary) some attention.

All for less than 20k per year (also NQT year, so first year teaching).

Daughter is a teacher. Her school have recorded the teacher doing each lesson to camera. They have spent the past few months doing it. Then feedback provided online plus one very regular call home to tutor group.

Live lessons tricky due to having to be in school for key workers kids, safeguarding issues and parents not at all keen on it (interferes with work / not enough laptops / intrusive).

You can't please everyone.

Agree so glad we don’t have live for primary

We just have one session - it’s a hello and this is what you’re doing today and a story sometimes. It’s not any educational value but for my 6 year old it’s making a massive difference. He loves seeing his teacher and friends.

Eldest (9 and 7) are having all live lessons, as per their normal timetables. Supported with some links/docs. No issues with age, lack of technical ability, annoying younger siblings.

They also have live morning meeting and live afternoon wrap up.

Youngest, 4, is having live morning meeting and 1 live 1-2-1 a week. More if we require it. The rest is prerecorded and links sent through every day. Covering maths, phonics and a specialist lesson every day. And a recorded story time.

I'm impressed with what the school have done, really solid and well thought through.

I think different schools have had varying feedback from parents.

No live interaction or videos at all. Year 1 and year 6. Worksheets set which require cutting and stockings so ideally printing. Yesterday no access to any of the working until 3.45!

@CarlottaValdez

Agree so glad we don’t have live for primary

We just have one session - it’s a hello and this is what you’re doing today and a story sometimes. It’s not any educational value but for my 6 year old it’s making a massive difference. He loves seeing his teacher and friends.

True actually I would like that any connection like this is good

Ds can message on their platform and sees his friends names, including those at school (no idea how many but would suggest they are on devices too).

Teacher / TA responding immediately so not quite seeing them but really helps

For my Y2 son - a 6 minute 'check in' in the morning, 10 in the afternoon. Tasks set which so far have taken about 30 minutes to complete. No live or recorded element whatsoever.

I don't think it's acceptable - over half of the class are in school being taught by a teacher, those of us at home have another teacher assigned (also school based) all day but no emails are being answered so I'm at a loss.

Daughter actually in secondary school teaching key workers kids today / doing lunch duties etc.

Meanwhile kids at home getting same lesson and she responds to e mails. Best she can do in circumstances. You can't be in two places at the same time.

2dc’s in primary, reception and year 1. No live stuff yet as the internet connection is so dire teams and zoom don’t work very well. Even school have admitted it’s a real problem. They are putting up learning videos and providing plenty of tasks, which are great. Also calls and emails. They see the teachers and ta’s though when we drop sibling off at preschool attached to the school so regularly contact is maintained.

Prerecorded welcome video for DC7 and a timetable of tasks including links to yoga on YouTube & PE with Joe. Some of it is coming out of the pre-prepared packs they put together in case of class isolations. Some maths, some spellings, some phonics games, plus Purple Mash.

DC9 has a 30 min Google Meet first thing with whole class, then lessons in GClassroom with links to videos to explain the maths.

I can’t do any of my own work, but I expected that. It’ll have to be done when they’ve finished/tonight. Fortunately it’s the kind of work that can be done that way — I know not everyone’s is.

Still, it’s early days and both schools are doing very well in the circumstances. I’m happy with it and will be sure to tell them, to counteract all the moaning they’ll be hearing from elsewhere, judging by this thread

@MarshaBradyo
@zaphodbeeble

Wrote, emailed, phoned School last time. No reply.
Caamhs also forwarded my letter (concerns from them re his MH)
NO reply.
I don't have time to go via Governors etc. I doubt County will do much. It's an Academy in Special Measures. Fucking Williamson should visit. It is not an 'education' in any shape or form.

None, we won’t be getting any live interaction, my son is in year 2 age six. We have been given a pencil and an exercise book and told to do oak national academy work. I understand teachers are stressed and stretched, but it seems so unfair at the different standards of lockdown learning throughout the country.

No live lessons, no marked work, basically no interaction. All printed out in packs and collected by every family (or sent home with keyworkers).

Happily, I am able to shift my own study to the night (full time student) for the main part and am up to teaching and marking the sheets provided with relative ease. The DCs school has a very high proportion of children with English as a second or additional language; in at least one case, I know the primary carer does not speak English above the absolute basics. Fuck knows how they will be getting on.

However, I like the school. It's tiny, with few staff. I will not be complaining.

@noblegiraffe - absolutely - my DD's school is using Oak. I'm suprised more schools aren't using it (and Bitesize) - I mean surely that was what is was made for?

Personally I don't get the argument that kids at home can't be taught because the teachers are in school teaching (!) KW children. Why should those at home be penalised even further (bearing in mind that they are also missing out on social interaction, classroom resources, exercise, etc.)? If 3h of solid learning is enough for primary (I agree that it is), then teachers should have enough time to provide learning for both groups.

My YR 12 has a normal timetable, lessons on Teams for 30-60 minutes then work to complete
Given they had such a short space of time to set this up, I am incredibly grateful the teachers have managed this

My Year 6 is sent work to complete every day - maths, English, topic. A mix of videos (not done by the school)and worksheets, with some spellings and Times Tables Rock Stars.He is completing it all by lunchtime. He also has a weekly challenge and has been sent some PE ideas. It looks like they are going to have a class Zoom once a week.
My Year 8 has timetabled lessons as usual, through Teams, most are live with the teacher.

Oh, work isn’t marked or even seen but they can email in anything they want to show the teacher. They do send the answers to the maths so we can mark that.

Nothing live. A few worksheets and links. Hope it improves next week. I am not sure why home learners can't be told what those in school are doing each day so at least we can follow the same work.

No live interaction the school sends work and they work through it.

My child goes to a state school and it’s brilliant!! I’m so impressed with my eldest daughters teacher!

She is in year 6 and the teacher does live lessons from 9:30-2:30 mon-fri.

Reception child gets some interactive videos from her teacher asking them to do tasks and also some videos to watch. All work has to be submitted at the end of the day by both the kids.

Just a shame they are missing out on social interaction and constantly within the same four walls otherwise it would have been a complete win win

We have no live lessons.... and that is absolutely fine for me! Live lessons are not great for parents, as it doesn't allow flexibility.

Instead, we get 3 pre-recorded lesson intros to watch at any time during the day and it explains a task the DC need to do. We then do the task offline and send it back on the app. It means I can do homelearning with DC when it meets my work schedule, rather than frantically trying to do a legal conference call at the same time as DC is on his Live lesson. This is at Primary.