What does the remote provision for your kids look like?

[ProvisonalPaulina]

Even in our own family we have a huge spread of what's on offer for the kids and I'm curious what it looks like for everyone else.

We have:
YR4 private school - full live zoom schedule with the teacher teaching the key worker kids in person simultaneously from the classroom. All specialist teachers are live as well.

Nursery attached to private school- full sessions in person

YR 11 state school: a few prerecorded slide decks and one live zoom fortnightly.

Year 1 state- power point with daily activities with including pre recorded you tube video. I’m quite disappointed as was expecting some live interaction.

Yr 12 state here - usual timetable via teams with usual teachers

Secondary private.

Full timetable live via MS Teams.
Registration into each class compulsory (parents contacted if child fails to register)- how each teacher teaches varies from teacher to teacher, but most common is teacher introduces topic/teaches, task then set, children work and either submit at end of lesson (or at a later date if continues for homework), marked and feedback given a day or two later. Sometimes other resources (Hegaty Maths etc) used as appropriate. Teacher remains available on teams for questions throughout lesson time. Homework set as usual. Non submitted/poor quality work chased up as per usual.

PE lessons are pretty creative. Either goals set on Strava, or sometimes PE teachers stream themselves doing workouts etc for children to follow, sometimes they team up with non PE teachers who are prepared to be a bit silly and give it a go. Soft touch on making children participate (beyond registering at beginning of lesson). Probably the one lesson that is fairly optional, but its fun so the children like to be part of it. Very much done in a fun, lighthearted way - more an encouragement for teens to get up and be a bit active and a bit silly, rather than any attempt at serious sport.

Assemblies/Form time/PSHE etc still running online.
Co-curriculars running (but obviously limited to what can be done, but things like school newspaper/book club/local history/coding club etc are still running but online).
Big upping of pastoral care, extra support/counselling available as needed. Parents and children have named pastoral contacts who can be contacted at any time through the school week for issues, and will generally get a reply within a few hours/next day at latest.

Just as it was in March.

From an education perspective, its pretty good.
Socially its hard on the children, but there's really not much more that I believe the school can do. Pastoral care is strong, no-one slips through the net.

Y8 has 3-4 Satchel One (Show My Homework) lessons each day this week which are links to videos lessons and then writing tasks and a test at the end and next week he goes on to Google Classroom live classes (we've been asked to switch off the camera. He lets me supervise some of his work but I got thrown out twice because I was trying to get him to expand on what they were asking him to do 😂
Y6 has 2 Live Google classroom lessons a day with the camera (except he refuses to have camera and sound on him at the moment). The rest of his work is tasks that he does with our supervision.
Both boys have Xbox tasks. Apparently. But that can wait till later!!

Yr 1 state - Incredibly confusing attempt at uploading worksheets on Google classroom. Teacher insists we can click on the worksheets and type answers but no one can. Each equation or sentence is repeated in a block of 9 on every page, so if you print it out you waste all your ink printing out one question 9 times.

Nursery called earlier to say they will take ds due to his additional needs so I'll forgive them the shit home learning for taking him off my hands

Sorry the Y6 is Teams not Google.

Year 7 & 10 full time table of live lessons on teams, homework set on show my homework like normal. Very impressed as they also have form for 25 minutes were they can interact with tutor about any issues etc.

Year 4 absolutely nothing! Not surprised they did this in the last lockdown just said read once a day and times table rockstar. Very very unimpressed with this.

Year one state. On Google classroom three tasks set per day (one phonics, one maths, one something else) and one class call (short) with a teacher. Everyone had difficulty uploading the work completed. But I’m sure it will get better.

Year 5 state. 3-4 activities uploaded daily, 1 maths, 1 English, usually a topic and a fun activity eg something physical or art. Feedback given on the submitted activities the same day. No zoom lessons or other contact from teachers.

Better than last time! We also had oak academy videos during self isolation periods last term, but no sign of those yet this week.

State Yr 3 and 5. Google Classroom being used for the first time. Theoretically will be 1 maths, 1 English, 1 topic added each day plus spellings and use of various apps. It's very slow and not intuitive so far plus they don't get very far without me over their shoulders the whole time. No face to face scheduled. This is going to be a very long term.

Dds year 9 and 12 have a mixture of lessons set and live lessons. I don't necessarily think live is better than it being explained in writing and them having to work through it and submit it so I don't mind which it is

Scottish primary
No live teaching.

Teacher available for contact via messaging on google classroom for 1 a day. Will reply outwith this but not as quickly. Otherwise timetable with worksheets and links to websites listed weekly. The parents have to organise, teach and supervise.

My kids will be in school, if it is there own school I imagine they will get some work done but last time the hubs didn’t do any teaching so we had to do it on weekends and evenings which was a nightmare.

Year 8 & 9 state - full online timetable of live lessons on teams. Tutor time, p.e, drama and dt... nothing left out. We are delighted - it was pretty good last time but they have really nailed it this time and children loving it. Primary has good range of lessons, not so much live but they are a bit young but well thought out, phone calls from teachers and zoom meet ups. Teachers are amazing aren’t they.

It would seem a lot of schools have gotten over the whole "we can't possibly have cameras on the kids" hang up from last time and are now insisting cameras are on. The live teaching has been so much better than the set work from Year3 lockdown.

Year 3 and Year 5 state primary
We were new to the school having moved them in September following the dire provision from our previous school in the last lockdown.
From today (first start of term )
Regular parent updates on class dojo as well as personalised messages to parents :
Google classroom
Morning live check in / register - 20 mins
4 pieces of work uploaded by 8am - teacher online all day to answer questions.
Marked immediately
Work had presentations and videos through out to explain what the children had to do.
Assemblies and other social events planned weekly
They have merged the classes in the year though with some teachers and ta's doing the key worker children and the others online. Very very well organised - have no idea if they will maintain this pace because they must be exhausted

People keep mentioning" it is so much better this time". That's because in the last lockdown the government specifically removed education as the function of the schools, it was simply childcare. This time schools are aiming ( in the main) to do the job they are meant to do. It won't be perfect and some schools will still struggle but it won't be the same as last time!

State Reception: 4/5 prerecorded videos on Tapestry for phonics, literacy, maths, story and one other along with a suggested timetable that also includes Reading Eggs, Cosmic Yoga etc. Class teacher commenting on photos uploaded. They knew last week they were shutting so had a bit more time to prepare and being Reception I can understand them not doing it live. You do need a parent/carer on hand for most of it, so not being live also gives more flexibility.

Nothing as yet.

17 year old, penultimate year, not UK.
5 live lessons (Google Suite Meet) every day, 6 days a week. Lessons will last 45 minutes.
Students' cameras have to be on. Attendance compulsory.
Can't fault it.

Year 7 and 11, independent
Full online live lessons to regular timetable via Teams, with the teachers they would have had in school. Tutor time and assemblies also held. Lunch time club activities are on the Online timetable but don’t seem to have started yet. After school GCSE revision sessions were still happening but don’t know now they just announced exams are cancelled. Homework for Y7 is suspended as the school say pupils are spending enough time online. For PE they have been given a short HIIT workout that they complete during pe lesson and are to report back measurements/improvements each week.
Children have been instructed to have microphone access, camera on (was optional last time). Uniform not required.
Teachers very responsive to messages.

Only niggle is like someone else mentioned breaks and lunchtime are at different times so means I’m doing multiple lunch slots/snacks. Otherwise excellent and both kids very pleased with the lessons. Just missing the contact with their friends.

Gosh your yr11 stands out

Here
Yr11 - full school day with timetable lessons live
Yr6 - activities, videos and live chat response from TA and teacher takes about 4 hours

Worksheets uploaded on English / phonics, Maths, Topic and another "soft" area every day.

Teachers upload a hello video, but there isn't much in terms of instructions or recordings of actual teaching etc. Lots of links to YouTube videos.

As another pp said, I have to organise, teach, explain, supervise and upload every single aspect of every piece of work myself. The system is not intuitive and is fiddly and my children could not access it independently.

I have two DC and they are slower workers with suspected SEN.

To get everything we need to do done between them, allowing some time to eat and exercise, is taking 7/8 hours a day.

It's confusing, draining and lonely - and we're only three days in. I have no idea how I'd attempt it on top of a full time job (I work p/t).

Y11 State full timetable mostly via teams . In lockdown 1.0 they used Show my homework to a bigger degree and online lessons were less. Now lessons are broadcast from the classroom so as to include keyworker children. Individual Feedback via show my homework. Super impressed. They’ve also kept the girls motivated despite exam cancellation and the syllabus being predicted to be practically complete by half term.

Private school : yr 3 and yr 6. 4 x 1 hr zoom lessons per day plus tutorials so busy 8.30 til 3.30pm with 2 breaks and lunch

Y12, absolutely amazing, full time table, regular meetings and sign ins.
Vulnerable kids in school, and those who couldn't travel home.