school provision what are you getting?

[Didkdt]

I think we might have a better idea of school provision if we can see what other schools are managing to provide, what do you get from your school?
Do that’s use Teams Zoom Google classroom?
Are they using other sources like Oak Academy or CBBC
Do they get daily or weekly contact group contact
Can you/they access the teacher
If they need to be in school what’s the provision?

My kids are at 2 different schools, DS gets each lesson pop up on time with a live teaching session or a teacher’s recording of a lesson, often the teacher stays online to deliver the whole lesson
They can also access through chat either their subject teacher or another member of that faculty
Personal Tutor does daily registration fir 30 minutes you have to register you can stay to chat it’s teams video
If you miss sessions parents are contacted sharpish to see if you need to be in school.

My DD has work set the night before so you can print stuff off they work through Zoom and Google Classroom any questions go into the class chat and gets a swift reply
Registration each morning and work is submitted 3or 4 times a week, teachers do some videos but they also use Bitesize children have a Zoom session.

Who is this helping? What is the point?
Do your dc have a school policy re equity or ICT provision, do your dc have any teachers with small children at home or who are covering keyworkers or who aren't well themselves?
I see nothing constructive in your post.

My ds school does:
2x zoom calls a week, purely social.
Then daily he gets literacy, maths and two other subjects (although one is often a collective worship video)
Each subject has a little explanation video attached and they're marked and responded to quickly.

I'm happy with the amount and quality generally.

At my school we set online daily:

Phonics or spelling
Literacy
Maths
Another subject
A meditation or well being activity
PE
A story

Plus two teams lessons a day.

We also offer paper packs if people prefer them, 1-1 teams sessions when needed and the TAs ring each child twice a week to chat to the family and hear the child read.

We're fairly relaxed about what gets done as long as parents are engaging with us on a daily basis. We fill in an engagement register and SMT go out and visit anybody who isn't engaging.

My kids do more than yours.

Teacher, live lesson all day 9am-2:45

5 year old child has 5 things to complete every day. Topic, phonics, maths, literacy and physical activities. Done through recorded videos and tapestry.

Both children have to submit all work by 3:30pm

Secondary school. Live lessons for all subjects following the normal weekly timetable from 9am to 3.15 (usually five lessons a day). Live lessons are around 30 minutes on teams with 30 minutes to complete the uploaded work in assignments. It's actually quite exhausting!

Three teams a day, live with teacher.2 half hour ones where teacher teachers and all children participate. She explains the work and answers any questions. Then she posts a story in the afternoon.
English and maths every day - an hour each, fully resourced, we just have to print it and then a foundation topic each afternoon I with activities to do if we like. One spelling test as well.
Loads of interaction all day, we can private message the teacher and she's available to talk and she marks and returns all work promptly.
She's also put the work up in advance for us so we can do some over the weekend to lighten the load as im a key worker and my DH is trying to work and homeschool so I do some at the weekend with DD.
School is incredible. This is year 1

Prep school. Full timetable of live lessons, 8am til 5pm (shudder)

Dc secondary school full day of live lessons following the timetable they would have at school.
Dn (who I am currently running home learning for as in my childcare bubble) at primary school have English, maths, phonics, 20 mins reading and one subject activity per day. They also have a teams meet or zoom meet once a week with friends and teachers. Their school uses dojo and constantly updates it with daily challenges and also once I upload dn work they always comment on it with feedback

DD (year 11) gets around 10 hours per week of live lessons (on Google meets). Other learning might include pre-recorded lessons, set work that is submitted and returned with feedback, occasionally links to other resources such as online videos etc, all via Google classrooms.

She also has to log on for registration at 8.30 each morning, which includes time with her form tutor and the odd pre-recorded assembly. We have had phone calls from home from her form tutor and head of year as standard, kids who are failing to engage are apparently getting much more contact than this. I am aware of several kids having been supplied by the school with IT equipment.

I'm very happy with what's on offer. The quality of remote teaching and feedback is excellent. DD isn't actually that keen on the live lessons, and feels that she studies more efficiently when they're not happening, but they do break up the day a bit so on balance, I think she's glad to have them. We also had an online parents' evening.

I think the school is doing its very best, and the teachers seem to be bending over backwards to ensure that the kids are not being disadvantaged by the school closures. I have been impressed by what they have done tbh, and just hope that the teachers are not struggling too much under the pressure.

It's a state comp, fwiw.

Primary school, 2 x 1.5hrs live lessons in morning. An independant learning task in the afternoon and 30 min catch up/social at the end of the day. We collect the packs from the school playground on a Friday afternoon. Worksheets and jotters are photographed and uploaded into Microsoft teams when I remember.

I have three all at different schools
Year 7 - full timetable using Google Classrooms with mixture of live, recorded and task based lessons. Also daily live tutor group. Provision is great but can get overwhelming - some of the work is more than can be done in the lesson, and some teachers do a live lesson then set work when there is only 10 min left. I think they could do with a bit more time in the day for exercise and well-being. Children in school do the same work under supervision
Year 5 - uses Teams. Daily live session with teacher to go through day’s work, some of the tasks have recorded videos from one of the year 5 teachers. Teacher and TA both at home so children can ask questions at any time and get quick answers, and I think she calls individual children or smaller groups to go through things if there are issues. Daily work includes maths, English, guided reading, wellbeing and one other rotating thing, plus expectation of reading and Timestable Rockstars. Children in school do the same work under supervision, and I believe children at home struggling for devices have been leant iPads.
Reception - brief video message from teacher, email with phonics and maths videos/tasks. No recorded or live lessons from teacher. We do get quick comments back on work. Teacher and two TAs are with the children in school.

Live lessons every day from 8.35am-3.25pm including morning and afternoon registration. Have to contact school with a reason if they don’t log on. Late marks if they don’t log on on time. One school has just been talked down from requiring uniform on the top half. They’ve now gone to dark coloured smart clothing on the top half. Topic changes every hour or so, high school moves onto new meet with new subject teacher of course. Live upload the work by scan, photo, or various electronic submissions roughly every hour.

P.E. time is filled with learning about nutrition, healthy eating and sports science elements, along with a set of youtube workout links to complete, we are encouraged to send in pictures of the children doing the videos at our primary.

Homework is set in addition, primary and secondary.

State primary. Three tasks put on Seesaw each day, plus a 30 minute Zoom call (which DD detests, so I'm grateful there aren't more live lessons).

We submit work, and get a single comment on each task, but no marking, which is pretty frustrating. Not sure how fast the teacher responds, as we haven't been asking questions. Can submit at any time, which we massively prefer, as it allows us to get outside in daylight hours, and do some of the work later.

Mainstream secondary (y7 & y9) full day live lessons on Google Meet, with registration. So 08.30-15.00. Breaks as per timetable and 10 minutes shaved off each lesson to allow comfort measures. Work uploaded to Google Classroom prior to the lesson with Slides/pdfs needed.

All children have cameras off. All children can choose whether to use the chat box or microphone to communicate. Work done in the lesson is uploaded to classroom and short feedback given. E.g. DD2's maths teacher said "Could you make sure you copy down all the info I write on the slide, so that you know how to answer the questions later."

We must email in as usual if our children will miss school or have an appointment during school time.

DD1 (Special School, year 10). All work for the week is uploaded to Class Dojo on Monday. Tutor time by Zoom every morning. Work done is being monitored, but also messages to say that the learning is what's important, not the 'work'. They are still hoping to use work done at home for their Gateway awards, so we have to sign declarations about the work they do to say how much help was given.

Y5 - work set on purple mash for parents to print ready for the lessons.
9-10 daily maths - interactive with whiteboards and explanations. Kids complete work and parents upload to purple mash for feedback.
10.30-11.30 English - comprehension lesson or grammar lesson so far.
1.30-2.15 story, PE or music.
Extra curricular sessions uploaded to do in own time.

Really pleased to be having the zoom sessions as dc enjoys them and is motivated to complete the work. It also gives me some time to get things done, but aren't too restrictive as we can still get out and do things during the day.

Secondary dc have full timetable on Teams.

Y3, no online lessons, live or otherwise.

Materials, worksheets, PowerPoint slides etc are uploaded to school website at start of the week, along with the timetable that is being taught in school. We have to keep to that timetable all day and upload photos of work on an app at end of each lesson. Sometimes we get a ‘well done’ comment, often nothing. It’s a small thing but DS likes to please his teacher and the lack of acknowledgement is becoming an issue for him.

I’d like there to be some live interaction just to give structure to the day, and help DS to stay motivated but school says they have no plans to offer it - probably understandable as they have a lot of children with no devices, or in families where several children are sharing devices.

I am already very far behind with the work that pays our bills...

I’m sorry I did forget about DD and assembly pe activities and challenges.
Homework is an interesting one, DS homework is set in the school day DD has none
There is interaction all day with teachers if she wants it but not the level of live interaction some have DH thinks they could set more live time,

Live lessons have really helped us. Dd is dressed and ready at her desk daily for the live lessons that start at 9am. She has a little break and then gets back to her desk for english at 10.30. We then have time to have lunch and go out before the afternoon session. Her time on zoom gives me time to get housework done guilt free.

Y5 - advised to follow the usual timetable, which DD is doing as she needs structure. Daily task for English and Maths, plus 1 other subject, then also expected to spend some time doing activities on Times Tables Rock stars, Spelling Shed, Numbots, Reading Planet. Twice weekly class zoom calls, daily optional maths drop in on Zoom if they are struggling and want to ask questions. Expected to upload work daily via Purple Mash and they get feedback through that. School bought Kindle Fires using pupil premium money last Spring for all students on Pupil Premium and have bought WiFi dingles for those that needed them.

Y8 - live lessons on Teams all day following normal timetable - some might be live teaching the whole time, others might be a task set and then time to complete it independently. Expected to upload all work via intranet, also some homework. I had an email last week saying how well she was engaging so I expect those who aren't engaging are also getting emails/calls. School are providing paper packs for those who need them.

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Secondary in since I am a critical worker - following the same work as those at home. He is sat at a desk on a laptop and does exactly the same. TA at the front supervising. Very few staff in school which has 10% of students in.
Another at a different secondary - similar in that same set work as those at home. He likes it more since he can concentrate better due to smaller class numbers. Very few teachers in since most working from home. TA's supervising the in school students.

Oh deepest joy. Yet another thread on home learning provision.

@AriataBrown

Oh deepest joy. Yet another thread on home learning provision.

And yet you felt compelled to open and comment instead of just scrolling on to something that interested you 🙄 yawn....

DD is year 4. Her teacher sets English, reading, maths and times tables each day plus another subject eg history, PE, spellings, art etc. They use pre recorded videos, links to work sheets, dojo, oak academy, purple mash.... They also have one live teams lesson per day. The children in school follow the same work as much as possible and join the daily teams lesson too (DD goes 2-3 days a week when I work.) The teachers are in school with the key-worker children on a rota so when her teacher is in school the children at home have pre-recorded videos instead of live. They've set a timetable 9-3 but we find it doesn't actually take that long.

DS is in year 7 and is attending school full time as he has an EHCP. All lessons are via teams whether they're at home or in school. 8.30-3pm with a short lunch break. The screen time isn't doing him any good but walking to school and back helps. I know those at home are struggling to fit in fresh air and exercise.

@AriataBrown

Oh deepest joy. Yet another thread on home learning provision.

A tip that might assist you. Avoid the threads that make you yawn or don't interest you. If you don't have children learning from home or if you do and quite happy with their provision and have nothing to share....scroll on by...

@Imiss2019

And yet you felt compelled to open and comment instead of just scrolling on to something that interested you 🙄 yawn

If you are tired have a nap