Hi,
After reading lots of information on here about home learning I just wondered what parents would want for a nursery age child? Everyone's views are so varied.
Our nursery children do 2.5 hours a day usually and the learning is obviously play based which is tricky to replicate at home. The majority of our children have siblings in the school and are sharing devices. Yr2-Yr6 are having daily zooms but we decided its too complicated for nursery and timetabling all the older year groups is already tricky.
At the moment this is what I currently do -
- Set a weekly grid which contains 3x maths, 3 x literacy tasks and one task each in the other areas such as ICT, Science, motor skills etc. Linked resources uploaded.
- They can choose how much or how little they would like to do and send me pictures or videos on our app. I have made it clear they can do what suits and that all play is learning at this age so they can send me photos of other things too if home learning is too much and I reply to photos of walks, cooking etc.
- I reply to all work sent in real time or as soon as possible and when I am in school for keyworkers my TAs also respond to all work.
- I am available for parents to directly message from 9 - 4.
- I upload childrens work to the class feed to celebrate and share with their friends.
- 3 x recorded videos weekly e.g. story, number work and phonics.
Would you feel this is sufficient for your 3 year old? I'm really aware of how many working parents we have and that lots of the children are currently with grandparents, in addition to trying to compete with siblings doing work. However I want to do the best for them and set enough for those that want it..really I just want to be in as its just not the same for young children and not the way we do things! Thanks 