Home Learning for Year 2

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Anyone else just getting very basic instructions from school and not getting either worksheets or live/recorded lessons? The school is apparently concerned some students couldn't access these so it would disadvantage some. However I think they are just disadvantaging everyone at home by doing this. (Pupils in school are being taught by their usual teachers.)

And no, I'm not going to complain, I'm managing and realistically this DC has no SEND and meeting age related expectations so can manage with whatever I teach him for a few months but I don't understand the logic of it.

That's exactly the situation we have for our year 1.

We get worksheets to download, with no instructions of what we're being asked to do.

We've also been told that there's no live teaching available because a) the teachers are providing teaching to the keyworker kids (currently 20%) and b) some parents struggled to do video parents evening so no one can have anything at all.

I'm not particularly happy - my child is so disengaged with her learning because she's literally not seen or heard from her teacher since before xmas.

We get recorded videos, which work well for us (internet issues). Mostly from Oak or White Rose, but some from teachers themselves.

Just worksheets without explanation aren't that much use overall. We get some lessons as just PowerPoints, and they are little more than a starting point. (The French was interesting... I don't speak French, so trying to teach the correct pronunciation was difficult. Thank goodness for YouTube!)

Why wouldn’t you complain if what the school is providing is shit?

Yr2 - we get 3x zoom per day, each 20-30 min each - one focused on maths, another English and the final seems to be story time or a mix of things

Works really well

The zooms are crucial in the sense that the school also provides links to videos etc that you can use to understand before the worksheets, they also let us pick up their maths workbooks and gave a note book for doing English etc in

Videos of their teachers for music and PE as well

Great provision and they are also providing comments on all work uploaded on a daily basis

And we are both working FT, our DC has the pdf from school on the tablet plus some alarms so just clicks the link to join at the right time

@FreakinFrankNFurter Because it will just annoy the school and won't make any difference to what they provide? Lots of people have already asked for different things apparently, and they've said no for the reasons above.

Y2, we get a few pre recorded videos from the class teacher and basic worksheets to complete. Some links to YouTube videos with the child to complete maybe 3 sentences on. We've been doing that but I have also been working through some workbooks from Amazon.

My DC has no sen and seems to me to be behind expectations although his parents evening's have always been positive. I'm very concerned when he gets back into the class room he is going to be miles behind the 10-15 children that are being taught by his usual teacher. Not only are they going to benefit from actual teaching but from the small class size. That and I have two other DC to manage (and to distract each other).

I'm SAHM so I acknowledge I'm already in a better position than many who are juggling work as well but I felt it was more equal last year...I probably sound bitter but I don't begrudge the children who are in getting an education. I do think it's going to cause issues when they get back. Speaking to my y4's teacher in September she said all children, bar a few with very eager parents had similar gaps, this time there will be a huge divide.

I am getting 4 hours of zoom lessons. Home work for every class. PE and extra curriculum is included such as going out and exploring trees, plants and habitats. For apparent who has nothing else, the child gets full lesson with full attention. Putting dd in a room and leaving her to it has not help. I find playing on the floor.

Oops I meant the zooms are not crucial due to the other links...

doesn't it just increase the inequality as it depends on how good your parent is at accessing other work knowing where to look, having time, having skill, technology etc etc?

I suppose the most vulnerable ar ein school but then there are also the sen kids which might not be.

They are required to provide live or recorded teaching.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/952443/210114_School_national_restrictions_guidance_FINAL_14012021.pdf

I would speak to the school and ask them how they are going to meet the requirements.

They need to have:

• an average of 3 hours work a day
• an online platform that allows "interaction, assessment and

feedback"

• daily checks that pupils are engaging with the work
• teaching that includes "both recorded or live direct teaching time and

time for pupils to complete tasks and assignments independently"

If your child isn't getting that at the moment, I would want to go through each point to find out how the school will be providing it.

Year 2 here.

We get work uploaded daily. Tends to be a white rose maths video and worksheet, an English pdf on spag, a piece of reading comprehension, a maths meeting video which is about 10 minutes, covers stuff like times tables, we might have another pre recorded video from the teacher going through spag. Then 1 PE video, 1 collective worship video and usually a science or geography video with work set in the video. And a weekly video going through the childrens work and one from the head going through what each year group is doing. And from friday the are trailling a 25 minute zoom session!

So a lot really, certainly 3 hours plus. It's excellent if you have time to do it all and can get a 7 year old that focused for so long.

I am still worried tho. Am telling myself that the dcs that are in may be in front of ds when they go back but am hoping that the teachers spend additional time with the dcs that haven't been in.

In the meantime I would maybe buy some additional resources or access white rose maths yourself maybe? And BBC bitesized is very good and twinkle is supposed to be good as well. Keep up with reading and keep practicing maths as it's practicing things they already know that will cement it and do things like times tables, number bonds to 20 etc. If it helps we are doing 2 times tables at the moment. Oh and numberbots and tt rockstars are good as well.

Year 2 here, we only have 2 live sessions a week with the teacher, bingo or something to just to check the kids welfare really. We get a grid every 2 weeks with 16 tasks, plus reading(uploaded books) and TT rockstars. We upload the work on to the hwb. It's enough for us, especially as its Welsh language and mine is rather limited.

Blackeyed I suppose for me that is the crux of it - at least when they are in school there is some element of a level playing field (although you will still have DC that aren’t supported with homework / reading no matter - whether lack of interest, or there is willing but not capability or resources)

It feels like teachers are going to be in for a rough ride trying to figure out where the various DC are when they get back after this with much broader spread than usual

And yes parents with means will be topping up any way they can - whether spending time, additional worksheets, clubs or tutors etc

@minniemango the Headteacher has said in a video to parents they won't be doing live teaching. We have had maybe one video a week of a couple of minutes long explaining a particular point (eg what < and > mean) plus recording of teachers reading a story so I assume the school would argue they are providing recorded 'teaching' even though for 4 weeks it totals less than 10 minutes of actual teaching. They ignored guidance last lockdown and when the rules eased had the kids back on rota, which worked really well. I just don't understand the thinking on this one.

What actually are you getting then? What online platform are they using?

If I was you I'd probably use Oak Academy lessons. You could do English, Maths and another subject every day.