Will schools continue to support remote learning?

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What do schools plan to do if a significant number of parents choose not to send their children in because:

• they don't want to risk their children bringing the virus back to a vulnerable person in their household
• they don't want to expose their children to the risks of peak hour public transportation
• they don't want to take the risk that their children is one of the unfortunate ones to actually get serious symptoms from the virus
• any other reason(s) they feel like, because the government are not mandating that parents send their children back

Will schools continue to support remote learning for the children who do not return? Obviously, schools will have to continue to support the years which are not returning yet, but will they have the resources to run separate programs, one for the onsite Year 6/10/12 students and one for the remote Year 6/10/12 students? Or will the onsite students simply be sat at screens at school rather than at home?

Nobody knows. Maybe someone should actually push the government for Specific answers.

I would hope not, what a ridiculously heavy workload to land on teachers.

I'd guess parents choosing to keep kids at home will be pointed towards Oak Academy etc.

I'd doubt it.
Do they support online learning for kids who are off long term sick?

Ours is for the time being (From June 1st). I can't see it being viable for long though.

At ds’s school the onsite students will be in for two hours per day with their class tutor, not subject teachers. They will not be learning any new content.

I'm a teaching assistant. At our school the children coming in will be supervised by a teacher whilst they do their online learning. The school have made it clear it will be child care not teaching. They will still be supplying support and setting work on google classrooms etc online for the children at home. I think that is the same for a lot of schools from what I've gathered but obviously can't comment for all.. Hope that helps.

The children going back in Y6 at our school are doing remote learning in school. So, exactly the same as what their friends staying at home are doing.

We have been told that this won’t continue in September though if all year groups are back.

Our secondary has said it will continue posting online work for any y10s who don't return when school starts for them at some point later this term.

We are for the older children who have subject specific teaching (Y6 and Y4-Y8 key worker/vulnerable). Only 25-40% of the eligible year groups are returning so they will be doing the online learning at school while everyone else does it at home. I don't think it's a great solution at all but that's what we were told to plan for in our staff meeting this week.

I think the younger ones are splitting year groups in half and doing both.

In our school only the children of critical workers who were already in school for childcare are going back into the classroom on June 1st.

The teachers will be signposting us towards national oak academy etc and there will be less support available should we have queries.

Schools wi have to come up with something for their shielded pupils, and those who live with someone shielded from whom they cannot isolate within the home,

Unless/until there is a specific policy to remove medically vulnerable children from state schooling

I teach Year 6. At the moment, we don’t have clear numbers for how many will be returning after half term - parents have not replied to emails or are ( understandably) unwilling to make a decision.

So I am planning another week of remote learning in the same format as we have so far - 5 sessions each of Maths, English, Topic plus single activities for Dance, Music, Art and a lot more!

My plan is that when I’m in front of my class (whatever size) I will be able to expand on the material and add discussion and additional activities. It would be unhelpful to plan for a school lesson and then expect parents to support it or students to interpret it themselves.

I'm a teacher of one of the primary classes not coming back yet. I, however, will be in full-time with one of the smaller split year groups or our key worker/vulnerable children (we have 20+ so need them split into two groups). Our key worker provision had been shared at a hub with another two schools on a rota basis but we are having them back in our own school from 1st June).

I will still be putting up weekly plans for my own class but at the moment I post at least 1 video daily plus extra explanations of tasks which I just won't have time to do when I'm planning and teaching every day. I will still post planning for the week and will try to do at least one video to stay connected to my class but I can't do what I'm currently doing. I don't know how we are going to manage our welfare calls either.

My dd's school (state lower school) has specifically said that they will be continuing to provide online work for all children who aren't in school regardless of the reason why they are not in school. They have been amazing throughout this whole situation tbh. The headteacher wrote to all parents yesterday with a very detailed plan of what school would be like for those going back (they're only allowing Reception back initially, year 1 to go back once they've perfected and tweaked the process). The headteacher was very positive in the letter and also posted a video online showing parents and children what the reception unit now looks like which was reassuring to see.

However, come September, I can't imagine they will be able to continue posting online work for those not attending school due to the amount of work that would entail. I think that is fair enough though.

Im actually planning work for the autumn that can continued to be out online and not Submitted by the vast majority online

Our school will. No new learning will take place and the learning pack will be made to fit what we'll do in the classroom, with some adaptations depending on resources available at home.

Im a teacher in secondary and I will say it is something that has been mentioned as a consideration. Its the workload that is the issue - what I set online for my students is not what I would deliver in a classroom. So if I had half my year group in and half out I would be having to set two lessons to cover the same topic. So double the workload.

I do think it is a world of unknown but think those who are thinking of keeping students off long term by choice they may need to accept if school is offering something they may need to work with it not demand more.

We've been told that the same work that's being set online will taught in the classrooms for those that have returned, so that everyone's doing the same. I suppose it also helps the teachers to keep a distance in the classrooms if they're teaching the stuff that's been designed to do independently. (Although I have a Y1 child so I use "independently" extremely loosely!)

I suppose it depends on the homeschooling age group and what school currently does.. Ie for my primary school children they fill in a maths and a spelling book at home. Links to some white rose maths, comprehension topics and 1 or 2 other topics could do if like (Easter, animals, geography or alike) are uploaded by one of the 3 teachers for that year on rotation basis each Sunday or Monday for that week. Proposed schedule of work has been same from beginning.
No work is sent back in for marking or review... In this case highly possible in my opinion to do both...

My local secondary does more online training, work is sent in (chased if not recieved) and marked with feedback provided... In that case I can't see teacher having the time at all, it'd just be impossible expectation in my opinion...

Our primary just sends out links weekly. So I’ve no idea if that will continue but regardless we are doing our own thing now anyway so I suspect we’ll be fine.

Meant to say it would be nice if Oak Academy continued as my son really enjoys that.