School only providing 1 hour of live interaction a day!

[NotLookingTooGood]

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.

@noblegiraffe

Clients?

We have pupils and classes not clients.

Could be worse. Our secondary call parents stakeholders

95% live lessons kids follow their timetable as though it's a normal school day...No Cameras or Mics are allowed on they can type the response. Staff are dressed smart as though they are in the classroom, resources must be available if the staff member is off or they double up the class and homework submit as normal. It's very business as usual I do feel very sorry for the staff they are exhausted.

I’m in everyday teaching the key workers children as half the school are still in, I’m recording video, planning and resourcing lessons, covering all breaks and lunch as we are so light on staff, I have nothing else to give. I can’t mange live lessons on top I’m afraid but luckily parents have been happy with what we have provided.

Forgot to say it's a Secondary school.

@noblegiraffe

You're talking nonsense.

Good to see people redefining screen time to suit.

Plenty of adults complaining about the toll of being in zoom meetings all day. Getting backache, headaches and so on from poor posture and screen fatigue.

When I moaned about how hard my year 10 son was finding online lessons before Christmas this was not your attitude.

Nice to know you have changed your view on the subject or is it still perfectly normal for a year 10 to be fatigued this time of year.

Therefore not anything to do with being stuck inside on a computer for hours every day.

Anyway people really should think about what they are asking. A full timetable of online lessons is horrendous long turn. Three weeks of it before Christmas taught us that.

First lockdown we had set work to download for each lesson. It was so much better. They can crack on get it done and then have rest of day to be outside or whatever.

We are jealous of the secondaries that are offering a mixture of online and set work to download. Best of both worlds.

Truely I still have literally no idea what your problem is. I haven’t changed my attitude to anything and I have never said that sitting at a screen for hours a day wasn’t tiring. My DH works from home in zoom meetings and is constantly shattered so perhaps, given that I continue to be baffled by your reaction, the problem was that you entirely misread the intention behind my comment that my Y10 class, (who have been in and out in the covid Hokey Cokey all term), are also knackered? It’s was a particularly shitty term all round.

My two have full timetable via Microsoft teams they are expected to log on for registration then have same timetable as per usual including breaks.

I’ve no issue 8th lessons not being live but making sure someone is on hand to answer questions is vital. My DD was in the shower at 10am yesterday. I asked her why she wasn’t working and she said she didn’t have a clue about the work said. She’d emailed but not received a reply still at 3pm yesatrday so no work done at all in that lesson yesterday,

@tubbycustardtummyache Ofsted didn't encourage at all: schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-deluged-with-5000-emails-as-parents-turn-tables-on-williamson-by-reporting-superb-schools/?fbclid=IwAR12V-huna50dKoYOnJBGZ72wcFcWeTUyEdRIkDDgtNDmBAfPNk3n8IM5LE

Williamson just making up new tasks, without telling anyone, without any framework for judgement! Typical of our government. 🤯
And now Ofsted's struggling to wade through to get to actual concerns or notifications.