Primary kids in Ireland - is your school providing online teaching?

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Just that really - is your primary school providing actual teaching via Zoom or video? Or are they just sending out lists of work to be completed in workbooks etc? Is Seesaw just like workbooks but online?

Email and seesaw here. This week got a zoom call but no learning allowed!! Can't understand it. My niece in the class (2nd) as my ds, is learning fractions all week so by live learning on Zoom.
Schools shouldn't be able to pick & choose. It should be a mix, with the lesson recorded for those that can't watch live

Schools have been told to pick and choose according to their circumstances and the population of the school.

One hour class google meet lesson a week, a google meet assembly and usually something else like another hours google meet lesson or catch up call. The rest is seesaw or google classroom activities with some videos recorded by the teachers, and filling in worksheets, books or in their copy books. I have first class and third class kids.

Oh yes feedback comments on everythinge - a recorded message or comments on the work.

My DS is at a special school and I believe they have been doing really well. Half an hour lesson every morning then an added class meeting twice a week. Teacher sending lots of worksheets etc and encouraging us to email completed work back to him to put on class website, which is incentivising for DS. A pack of reading books, educational jigsaws, number lines and worksheets was also sent home at the beginning of term.

We are also linked in with some other daily online special needs learning, apart from school, which helps, but I have no complaint about the school.

[quote Cluas]@Taikoo, while I don’t think it’s that unlikely that schools won’t be reopened until after the Easter holidays, no one, not even at the DofE, has made a decision on that yet.

It may make sense for Heads to behave as though this is definitely the case, and to encourage staff to think ahead as though they will be distance teaching till Easter, but they simply don’t know, because no one has made the decision yet.[/quote]
The decision was made. It merely has not been shared with most other people.
5th March is just to keep the parents somewhat quiet.

My dd is in 5th class and the work is put up on seesaw, the teachers usually put up a short video explaining how to do the maths and irish which is great, and then put up the correct answers later in the day. Some of the work has to be uploaded, some you correct yourself. She has 3 zoom sessions a week with her teacher, its more chatting about how they are getting than anything else, and 2 zoom sessions with her resource teacher, which are actually classes. We can email the teacher if we have any questions or concerns. I am happy with the level of support that we are getting.

I have a 4th and 6th class. Parents get sent the work for the week on Sunday, print outs etc. Work is on see saw each day for the kids, with a mix of workbook assignments, links, teacher videos. They have a zoom class once a week. The 4th class zoom is generally a bit of structured fun and catch up chat. The 6th class one is corrections and working through problems.

I think that my 6th class dc is getting a great bit of experience in managing his workload ahead of secondary when he’ll be doing all that after a full day of school.

We also get a video from the head every week with updates for the parents, and assurances that they understand that there can be issues at home. And a separate message for the dc instead of assembly.

I have no complaints. It’s clear, consistent and very manageable. I definitely wouldn’t want daily zoom classes.

No online teaching here. Lists sent through see saw of what parents should do with kids. Then we’ve to upload and they correct, must take 30 minutes in total for them (I’m a former teacher so know a thing or two about correcting homework).
I think it’s disgraceful, they should be providing online lessons each day, instead they are doing the bare minimum and expecting parents to do the work.

Teacher here. Doing Zoom classes each morning where they do all the learning and then off to do the work in their books. School has to stagger the Zooms so only one child in the home is on at any one time due to devices/ supervision. Getting positive feedback. As well as learning it puts structure into their day and enables them to see each other and keeps that contact. The children are amazing at how quickly they took to it.