Year 6 lockdown education

[Emmaheather]

Interested to know how year 6 kids are being supported/taught by their teachers during lockdown.
My son is not going back to primary as they can't safety accommodate them (which I accept). So far school input has involved link to some worksheets which take about 1 hour each day.. No teacher contact, no feedback on work, no class contact, no answers to the work set so we can't even check it. Is this usual?

I don"t know what others are doing but at my daughters primary she gets about 5 hours work day. The teacher also marks the majority of the school work. She is in year 6.

We get three pieces of work a day. Maths, english and something else. About an hours a piece. We are bulking this out with Joe Wicks, Bitesize and sats books

I have a year 4 and a year 8. The primary are setting work, more than an hour a day, maybe a couple, but nothing is marked by school, we get the answers sent with worksheets.

Secondary have been a little better, plenty of work set, all must be submitted, but to date little interaction. After half term we have a new timetable, that w3 are meant to stick to, which DD1 isn’t impressed by. She prefers to get up and start early, done before lunchtime

Our school posts learning sheets at the start of each week with some maths (usually a link to oak academy) and an English activity, and something arty. The kids aren't asked to submit anything and no one checks if it is being completed. The teacher has called once for a very quick 'are you still alive' check.

The work my yr6 child gets from school amounts to about two hours a week, far, far less than my child in y1 who is at the same school. We don't any detailed feedback just the odd 'good work' or 'well done'.

I have subscribed to IXL, spent a small fortune on books, he does a number of oak national academy lessons across the week and he writes stories, newspaper articles and book reports to "supplement" the school work. Sometimes I wonder if he gets the least work from school because he'll be somebody else's problem by the time we see a proper return to school.

Worksheets here, they take about half an hour and it’s a rare maths sheet that doesn’t have a mistake either on the question or on the answer sheet. We have had two telephone calls and the teacher did give links to websites when more work was requested. Child gets no individual feedback on what she’s been encouraged to post to school and due to space issues it seems unlikely that she will go back to Primary at all.

Secondary are beginning to send out transition information, also riddled with errors. It does not give me confidence in the system although I know the school is considered to be very good.

Fourteafallout - that was exactly my thoughts about neglecting year 6. Makes no difference to the primary school. Sorry to hear your experience has not been supportive.

Enb76 you have one more call than me and mine was from the head because I complained, not really about my son☹️ I hope secondary is better and that as year 7s they will get some support.

It's a very sad way to end primary school.. good luck!