Work given from schools during lockdown.

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Has anyone had anything from their schools with regards to hone learning?
Out school has put a list of third party apps on their website. Apart from that, nothing.

Surely there was a plan for what happens if this happens? Surely if a pupil has bad health and has to stay off school for a long period then work can be arranged for them to do in line with their stage of learning.

A teacher friend of mine says their school has only 7% of pupils currently attending. The other teachers are being paid to work from home. But doing what? They should be sorting out what the kids at home are missing out on.

@feesh

The difference being of course that those in the corporate world would then normally have three options.

Change their annual leave dates.

Be paid over time.

Take it as TOIL.

None of this is available to teachers. I’m sorry for your children’s teachers, because they will have gone from half term? Maybe Christmas? Without a break. That’s pretty intense, and there will be no respite until the next holidays - if they are even allowed to have a break then. What a sad precedent to set.

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My dcs are in Secondary and to be honest the school have been pretty great so far.

I've had phone calls from each of my dcs form tutors several times. There's been tailored work set from each subject teacher and given out via school/home platform. They've produced a shadow timetable plus access to online websites for Maths and Science that the teachers can access and monitor the data/work accomplished.

My dd15 had a 3000 words written Drama assessment marked and returned pretty quickly too.

The head teacher has run several phone conference parent focus groups and is in touch a lot with emails on plans etc.

Over one of the phone calls with tutors we chatted about how she's finding it hard working with her two toddlers. Bloody impressive if you ask me!

Speak to your child's school if you're concerned, but also be aware that many third party materials are better than what staff could compile as we aren't experts in online learning.

For example, I could spend ages making a video input on a poem from our GCSE anthology as it's not something I've done before, or I could share a link to a 30 minute video by Mr Bruff, an excellent teacher who has already done the very thing I would be doing on the same material.
The first option means I waste my time reinventing the wheel. The second option means that the time I would have spent reinventing the wheel can go into redesigning the GCSE plans for next year to take into account the disruption.

I know what I would rather my child's teacher was doing.

Positive, polite dialogue with school and avoiding getting into the MN Coronavirus education hate is a much better way to resolve this.

We've not been sent much, very loose.

We've found this

www.thenational.academy/

after it was in the press conference yesterday and my son has really enjoyed it.

why the hate?

Just pointing out that someone hasn't fully thought through their tactics. But over react and jump straight to hate if you like.

Well, my husband has had all his leave cancelled this financial year and that’s not going to be paid back as it’s 20% pay cuts all round. These things happen to all of us sometimes. Yes it sucks, but then so did the weeks of working till almost midnight to close projects on time in my old job. It’s just part of the great rollercoaster of work.

We have been set loads and done not a lot

@feesh what makes you think that teachers don’t regularly spend their holidays under normal conditions preparing resources, marking assessments, preparing lessons? You sound gleeful that your children’s teachers are being told how to spend their non-contact time when the reality is most of us would have spent a fair amount of time working through the children’s holidays anyway