Primary school teacher..how many kids in your class of 30 are doing homelearning? How many are not?

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Primary school teachers...how many kids I your class of 30 are doing homelearning? How many are not?

I have a class of 29. 15 children are doing the work.

great thread!

This is really interesting. @Coffeeandteach and @KeepYourDistance2m do you have any theories as to why the second half aren’t doing the learning when the first half are?

But surely it depends what "homelearning" is, as far as the teacher would be aware, DD is doing nothing, and she does do nothing of the school suggested work. It's not differentiated, it's not new, she's self motivated to learn all sorts of things, she'd be much closer to following a home-schooling approach to education - only without any peer activities.

So as far as the teacher would know she's doing nothing - she's not uploading anything to be "marked" etc. yet she's not doing nothing.

Our primary have given us some suggested activities but are not marking any work so I don't see how they would know

@Mabelannie

This is really interesting. *@Coffeeandteach and @KeepYourDistance2m* do you have any theories as to why the second half aren’t doing the learning when the first half are?

A few of them, I imagine, are doing other activities with their families and making good use of their time at home. I work in quite a deprived area and many of the children in my class are latchkey children. They don't have an adult there during the day to tell them to do their work. Or there are too many people at home sharing one computer. We have offered packs for the latter but nobody has taken us up on them. I work in primary.

They all say they are when we phone but we have looked at the website traffic and this is clearly not true. Year 1 downloads the most and year 5 the least. We ask they try to do an hour and half a day.
We will know who has done what on their return.
We have had 52% of invited children return to school and this probably reflects the same amount of children completing the home learning across school. Would imagine it is higher amount in lower years and less in KS2?

From a parental POV our primary school wouldn't know. They can see links for TT Rocks and Spelling Shed but all other links they send are outside links and they aren't marking, plus our teacher is teaching another year now and doesn't even have time to email his own class, let alone check who is doing what! There's a Whatsapp group (20 out of 32 parents on it) with maybe 5 parents constantly posting about asking for more work, but many more posting saying they've not done XYZ or anything! Those are just the ones who bothered with the Whatsapp group, so possibly more conscientious. To be honest even just 2 hrs a day seems to be a struggle for most (our school certainly doesn't provide enough resources for that!) and it's really not comparable to a full school day.

Dd hasn't stuck hugely to the school suggestions since about week 4 but she has learnt loads about things she enjoys (Greeks/Salem Witch Trials/famous women). She has barely picked up a pen but has dictated stories to me and has dyslexia tutoring once a week so goes over bits she never had time to at school. I'm paying for Maths, French and her dyslexia tutoring, which has left me broke but happy she is keeping up and getting 1 to 1 with another adult. The school wouldn't know any of that!

It's a private prep and I'd say all but one child are doing the core stuff (video lessons so you can see who's logged on), attendance is being treated as slightly more optional at the special stuff like art (to be fair the specialist teachers have struggled with the technology) and the majority have given up on the formal PE. DD has had a go at all the maths and English and a stab at all the topic stuff (with mucho mucho whinging) so I'd guess compliance is around 90%. I don't know about quality though and I do sometimes see cameras pointing at the wall and DD says but X is on Roblox! I have spent a fortune on toner.

Of 30, 5 are doing the google classroom tasks. Another 5 send me things to look at from a grid of home learning tasks we emailed home as a project for them to dip in and out of.

How on earth would you know we are told not to submit anything 🙄

Dd (aged 11) and I read midsummer nights dream in the original and enjoyed it so yah boo sucks. Yes I am “bitter” about her schools utterly lame response to this.

Our school have provided 1 worksheet on adjectives, 1 on seasons of the year, 1 of months of the year and 1 on measuring length. That's everything for the whole week. It took 15 minutes for DD to do the lot yesterday morning.

They are not uploaded or marked by anyone so no way for school to know if they are done or not.

We have bought a load of spelling, handwriting, addition, subtraction, maths mazes...... and think up our own activities like maths treasure hunts, science experiments. So DD is doing a couple of hours learning a day but it's not because school have provided the work.

Private prep: almost all children (90%) engage in all core subjects.
Most also engage in voluntary extra activities.

This is a thread for staff to comment on their classes.
Obviously its aimed at those teachers whose schools are setting proper work and monitoring the uptake.
There are a gazillion threads already for parents to complain about the lack of schoolwork, go on one of them!

As for me in nursery last week I had 85% of parents accessing the work I was putting online.

My son did the school stuff and it was very basic and he got zero feedback so we enrolled him at at online school. If what they had provided had been decent we would have done the work
So they question isn't just "how many?" it should also be "why?"

DD9 (in year 5) has Google classroom and quite a lot of the children post comments on there.

The caveat is that we have the 11+ in September in our borough so a lot of the have to keep up a good pace of learning.

I have a class of 24 and 21 are doing the work. I actually feel very sorry for them when I hear about summer schools, Saturday classes etc. They are doing really well, doing lots & I'm very busy reading them stories, teaching videos, Sways etc. I have 2 children of my own too so working all hours of the day providing work, answering emails, working at the key workers school etc.

Our school wouldn't know, to be fair. The links sent are external, I guess we could see if they log on to ttrs, but that's about it. Some send us pics of stuff, but we're not marking or feeding back so many don't bother. We have a few families with no access to technology, but due to a blanket 'no printing out of work' rule we don't pass stuff to them.

Year 2 class - about 50% are doing most or all of the tasks set on our online platform. Another few are doing some of the tasks. Quite a chunk not engaging at all and they're the ones generally that need the most input.

Year 6 teacher 3 form entry school so 90 kids and we set (English and maths task for each day + 1 other subject daily) and mark as a staff team although one person is the sendco too so she does less as is busy with Sen stuff. Just under half the kids went back last week and I would say prior to that about 15 regularly submitted all the work (we use Google classroom and I do mark it) about another 20 do most and I have seen something from about 60% however most of the ones who do everything are the ones who are now back! This is one of my issues with summer catch up...the ones that would really benefit the most won't come!

After teaching my bubble all day I normally have between 80 and 100 pieces of work to mark via Seesaw. I’ve just finished now for the day 👍🏻

Am lucky to teach in a school with supportive parents who have the means to help during this period of time.

I’m a parent (teacher too but not teaching at the moment) and from our WhatsApp group it seems around half are mostly doing the activities. Everything is getting feedback (e.g photos of a child reading would get a comment like “well done Sarah! Remember to practise those hfw”. What’s been really interesting is that now my reception child is back (very) part time, it SO SO much easier to support his learning than it was pre-pandemic because I know exactly what he has done in school because it’s all on the app from children who are at home that day. It used to frustrate me that we weren’t even told which phonic sounds they were learning over a half term, let alone a day by day before. I wonder if an increased level of communication will be a positive outcome from this.

Class of 30.
11 are doing a great job of home learning.
14 are doing what they can under their own specific circumstances. Some home learning is happening.
3 are doing very little.
2 are doing nothing despite numerous different attempts to support/different types of learning, phone calls, emails etc. Thet were offered a place with the key worker children but this was declined.