@SaltyAF I’m in a deprived area of Wales. School is printing work for those who have no access to devices. No live lessons at all here - we’ve been told it’s because current system is working well, and they don’t want to isolate children who may not be able to access live lessons.
Yr 5 DC is getting work via goggle classroom. Anything they don’t understand they can post questions about, and usually get a response within an hour or so.
We also have seesaw so parents can directly message teacher and talk through any issues.
20% of kids are in at our school, so teaching staff are in school on a rota - when it’s their day in school they usually post to let children know there may be a delay in answer questions/marking work. But they get to it as soon as they can.
All work gets posted on a Friday evening for the following week, in case there are families who can’t be online on school days due to work commitments.
Maths work is labelled by day, usually 4-5 worksheets per day. If it’s a new topic there is usually a short video clip from school staff explaining it. Other subjects it’s usually a link to a YouTube video, or a short video of school staff, followed by questions about what they’ve watched. English this week for example was a video of a teacher reading The Great Realisation, then talking briefly about it. Then there were a series of questions for the children about the poem. Science was a YouTube video about pollination, with drawings they had to label afterwards.
DC is getting daily tasks for Maths and English, and about 1 hour per week of work for all the other subjects.
There’s also a weekly competition for which class within each year can read the most books. The child which has read the most words each week usually gets a “shout out” from the class teacher in a Monday morning video they do to briefly explain what work the children have been set for the week.