Teachers, What percent of your class are doing the home learning?

[RosieLemonade]

And are you worried it will peter out to nothing? I teach in a very poor area. A lot of my class have laptops provided by the school which is helpful. But the engagement is low. Some days are better than others. Zoom lessons have about 75% but then hardly any hand in the work. What is it like at your school?

I’m interested in this from a parent’s perspective - I’m working all hours to ensure we complete 95-100% of the work set. This has us working all hours including weekends to balance everything. I’m wondering if I’m pushing too hard... or is this the norm. I really don’t want my children to fall behind those whose parents can dedicate loads of time to home schooling them.

Hi we are the same . Independent learning probably about a quarter . Remote learning pupils don't download or printout hard really hard .
I don't teach core subjects , I think core subjects get a good response . I have to phone parents to ask why they haven't logged on . We have given pupils laptops and internet cards for WiFi

Great question - we have to hand in one piece per day out of 4 to show engagement so our school wouldn't know but if last summer was anything to go by we started with gusto in March and by July were on school trips most days 😀

I'd say out of the 90 in my year group, about 10 hand everything in, another 20 do some work and that leaves the other 40 with barely anything. We have about 20 keyworker children in school currently.

30 year 6s.
3 do nothing + don’t appear on Google Meet.

5 do the Google Meet + Maths quiz (although marks suggest they are randomly clicking answers), but don’t hand in English or Wider Curriculum.
4 do Maths and English but not WC.
The rest - so 18 - do everything, to varying standards.

We have at least 90% attendance for the Zoom live lessons - Primary. 90% handing in some work each week. Great majority sending in quite a bit of work. I'd say engagement is very high at the moment but I do worry about the toll it may be taking on parents and how they're balancing everything.

Not a teacher but just for another point of view, DS’s grammar school has 100% of children on every Teams lesson and approx 2-3 who don’t have their work in on time but I think it’s more to do with lack of organisation in using the teams app so missing assignments as the children who forgot usually apologise and say they’ll get it done ASAP. Misdemeanours are issued if work is not completed but they do seem to be issuing reminders first. There’s going to be a big gap between children when this is all over. Interestingly, school did not ask whether pupils have a computer, they’ve just assumed.

I would say around 23 out of 27 (other 2 kids have specialist curriculum set by the Senco).
No live lessons, but those are the numbers who regularly hand in each assignment.
The Head is following up the other 4.

Far far far too few and we are in an area of deprivation where this loss of in school education is going to be devastating. In fact it already is. They've dropped a year behind since Sept.

@LadyCatStark

Not a teacher but just for another point of view, DS’s grammar school has 100% of children on every Teams lesson and approx 2-3 who don’t have their work in on time but I think it’s more to do with lack of organisation in using the teams app so missing assignments as the children who forgot usually apologise and say they’ll get it done ASAP. Misdemeanours are issued if work is not completed but they do seem to be issuing reminders first. There’s going to be a big gap between children when this is all over. Interestingly, school did not ask whether pupils have a computer, they’ve just assumed.

What misdemeanor could they give if a child isn't in school? Very interested to know how this would work

KS3- apx 15%
KS4- apx 25-35%
KS5- apx 70%

A teacher I know works in a school in a poor area. After the first lockdown they managed to get Chrome books out to Y5 & 6 and laptops to Y3 & 4.
They are teaching half a day live teaching per yeargroup, so eg 9-12 for Y3 & Y5, 1-4 for Y4 & 6. During the live teaching, there is about 15 minutes input then teacher and children stay live online as they do the work. The other half day the children re set tasks in preparation for lessons or as follow up or practical. They are getting 98% attendance of children at home which is amazing.
Incidentally, the other teacher in the phase is teaching the key worker / vulnerable children in school - about 50% of the cohort.

100%. Affluent area. I find that it's easier to get them to do the work in live Zoom lessons than via Seesaw etc - and correcting with Seesaw is a ballache so just sticking to live works for me.

Less than 50% engagement across the school, varies across the years with year 10 less than 40%. 6th form is embarrassingly low and after crunching numbers today I've got 72 6th formers to call tomorrow as, especially some of the year 13s who did not engage last year, several of them are in danger of being asking to leave as we have no data that shows they are capable of passing. We have more than 400 students phoning across the school as they have not engaged at all and have already had phone calls. If these phonecalls don't work it is home visits as we have had no contact at all.

The depressing think about this is that every member of staff is producing great lessons. We have staff working 60-70 hours a week recording, uploading, doing live lessons on Teams, marking and providing feedback and I they are getting so little back from students. And a mouthful from parent when we call home.

@Scarby9

A teacher I know works in a school in a poor area. After the first lockdown they managed to get Chrome books out to Y5 & 6 and laptops to Y3 & 4. They are teaching half a day live teaching per yeargroup, so eg 9-12 for Y3 & Y5, 1-4 for Y4 & 6. During the live teaching, there is about 15 minutes input then teacher and children stay live online as they do the work. The other half day the children re set tasks in preparation for lessons or as follow up or practical. They are getting 98% attendance of children at home which is amazing. Incidentally, the other teacher in the phase is teaching the key worker / vulnerable children in school - about 50% of the cohort.

God that sounds amazing. We have no live lessons at all. A couple of recorded videos but of the teacher reading or doing an art task - not teaching a lesson. I am really struggling with my DD she has gone from loving school and loving learning, wanting to show off for her teacher, to never wanting to do anything, putting in the bare minimum of effort into tasks. She is completing most of the work set but only because I'm a SAHM and I can sit next to her and push her through it.

This is really interesting (and sad). Independent secondary, I only have one pupil who isn't engaging out of about 90.

About 2/10 are doing everything
4/ 10 doing nothing
4/10 doing bits

The others are in school

100%. 6th form in a state comprehensive.

It's been around 30-40% for us - but now daily phone calls to non-attenders are seeing that number increase. Frustratingly we have supplied laptops and/or dongles to every student who didn't have one, and the majority of them don't log on.

About 90% attendance at live lessons. About 60% submitting work. We had a big push to get chrome books out to all students who needed them. Engagement is much better than in first lockdown. (state girls' secondary)

Our attendance manager does loads of phone calls home every day to students who don't register. And I (and other teachers) are doing loads of calls to chase work. It's a hard slog...

@BertieBob

KS3- apx 15% KS4- apx 25-35% KS5- apx 70%

Well that is very worrying

None of you sound mature enough to be having children but at least you and have the benefit of time to get your own independent lives on track before taking that step.

@DowntonCrabby

None of you sound mature enough to be having children but at least you and have the benefit of time to get your own independent lives on track before taking that step.

Wrong thread?

Balls sorry guys wrong thread!