How much notice do you get for live lessons?

[MrsAvocet]

I can't decide whether to speak to my sons' (years 10 & 13) school about this or not. Generally I am extremely supportive of the school and I think the staff are working very hard in difficult circumstances. But this one thing is really irritating me - we get virtually no notice of which lessons will be live. At best, they find out first thing at the morning what's on that day and at worse they literally get told to be online in 5 minutes.
Aside from the number of times I've ended up serving lunch in 3 sittings which is a bit frustrating but not serious, it's causing problems for DH with work. We live in a rural area and our broadband is not the best so if he is on a work Zoom/Teams call and the boys log onto live lessons he often loses his connection. We can just about manage 2 simultaneously but not 3. If we got a schedule from school - even if it was only on Monday for the rest of the week - he could move at least some of his meetings to times when the boys won't be online and it would help a lot.
I am sure the teachers must know how they are planning to deliver their lesson well ahead of time. It did occur to me that it might be a deliberate policy in order to make pupils use the school day entirely for study and not plan anything else. I guess that's fair in a way, but I think that consideration needs to be given to other family members use of the internet. I'm sure we're not the only family in the school having this issue so I was wondering about asking if we could get a live lesson timetable at the beginning of each week.
What is happening in everyone else's schools and do you think my requrst is reasonabls?

yr8: Can be as little as 2-3 hours notice.
yr12: has a very fixed schedule, same as in person time table

My school has made it clear that students are expected to be working during lesson times and following their timetables. Still annoying when you're told one won't be there because she'd gone to ASDA with her mum (because apparently that's the only time they have together all week) or someone tells you another student has just walked their dog past their house.

Y12 DD has all her lessons live as per her normal school timetable, including having to login daily at 8.30 for registration.

My school has a fixed timetable for students so they know when to be on.
My friend's school has all students on their normal timetable, just taught through Teams/GoogleClassroom.
Another it's a case of instructions are given in morning registration.

All 3 are subject to change depending on staff being in work and well / staff being able to deliver the lesson and not being called last minute to cover the key worker rota.

We’ve got one in primary and one in college, primary we get the weeks plan on a Sunday so know the live lessons for the week. For college he sometimes finds out on the day but his lunch break is always at the same time so we can work around it. We are also struggling with internet connection, with 2 doing live lessons and then my DH doing live meetings it’s a bit of a struggle at times.

My eldest two ds are at secondary school and both are following a rigid timetable based on their original timetable. Each lesson is live on teams.

My youngest at primary has three life lessons a week at the same time each week. All lessons are put on google classrooms.

Years 9 and 12. They find out first thing in the morning on the same day. Dd2 has daily live registration at 8.30 and she checks then. There might be a live one at 9am. We're all able to be online at the same time though so it works fine for us.

Just to clarify they follow their normal timetable and have work for each lesson but they aren't all live. Which is fine

Dd follows her timetable. Live lessons are there in the morning listed but she double checks at the start of each lesson just in case. As lessons follow her usual timetable, lunch is a set 30 minutes. Her dt teacher did forget to send us a list of ingredients so she couldn’t do that today. I didn’t have any yeast

They wont be having lessons in lunch hour surely? My daughters lunch hour is 1-2 so thats3 when I give her lunch....

If their lesson isn't live they're supposed ti be doing work that's set ...

And no you can't ask af the beginning od the week.

The expectation will be that they are working for the school day, which may or may not include live lessons.

I’m teaching my full timetable on Teams so for my subject it’s just their usual timetabled lessons that they’ve had since September. On the odd occasion a lesson is cancelled e.g due to a meeting etc. they would know about a week in advance at least. Your dcs school sound very disorganised.

YANBU I teach and add my live lessons to Teams calendar by setting up a meeting. All lessons are live for our students except some lessons which are project based like art/drama. The students know exactly which ones are live and which are project based. It sounds badly organised and quite stressful for the students not knowing what to expect. Personally not one to complain to schools but I would find this really stressful as a parent but also as a student. I like a plan!

So you need to say something as if lockdown happens again they need to get this sorted out.

All ds and dd lessons are live as per timetable except pe (different secondaries). They both still get break and lunch time , at different times as one has 5 lessons a day one has 6 (60min vs 50min lessons)

No notice of whether it is a live or not live lesson.

However, this doesn't matter as They are expected to be following their normal timetable and be online for registration at 8.45 and for lessons at the exact lesson start time- when the work gets posted- either a live lesson or some other work.

Lunchtime and breaks are as per when they are in school so I know they'll need to eat 12.10-1.10

Give them a cold lunch or something that can be served in their own individual lunchtimes if they're not the same? 🤷🏻‍♀️

DC in Y7 and Y11. Both are working to their normal timetable. Most lessons have live elements whether that's input at the start or a discussion in the second half after independent work in the first half. Lunchtime and breaks are fixed and are the same every day so if someone else needed to be online (we don't, DH and I are teachers and in our own schools), it would need to be scheduled for before school, during lunch or after 3.15pm when live lessons stop. My DCs' teachers sometimes have to cancel live lessons because they've been called into school to cover keyworker provision as someone is unwell so even if a live timetable were provided for the week, it's subject to change.

In secondary aren't your children just following their normal timetable, which may or may not include live lessons?

Our broadband can cope if we don't have cameras on