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Home learning for Year 1 child

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Lightbulbs · 20/01/2021 21:46

I'm both a teacher and a parent and I'm wondering what other schools are providing for remote learning in a week for a Year 1 child.
Live or pre-recorded videos?
Zooms/ Teams/ Google classroom?
How long for?
How much work set?
Any 1:1 meetings?

It would be interesting to get a picture.

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SnowFields · 20/01/2021 21:50

My Y1 DC has 12 (live) Zooms per week (each lasts around 20 mins) with scheduled days that include links to prerecorded YouTube videos by the teacher to help with phonics and maths etc. Work set throughout the day and teacher contactable throughout the day.

No 1:1 but several 1:3 Zooms.

NailsNeedDoing · 20/01/2021 21:52

I’m a TA in Y1, ours are having a daily zoom for registration but they’re only 20 minutes each and no real teaching. They then have videos from oak academy and the like for English and maths each day with tasks that need to be submitted, and one more topic activity. Then they’re asked to read and practice spellings.

What’s your school and your dd’s school doing?

AmoElCafe · 20/01/2021 21:55

I have a year 1. She gets 2 live zoom meets a week (Monday and Friday). Daily video explaining the days work.
We get phonics, English, maths, ‘shared reading’ and then a piece of topic work each day (RE, science, history etc). Recorded video of the teacher reading a story every afternoon.
No 1:1.
All work submitted is commented on.

bookworm14 · 20/01/2021 21:58

DD in year 1 has two live zoom lessons a day (usually phonics or maths, plus the kids get a chance to share news/toys etc). We also get daily phonics, English and maths plus one other subject to do at home.

winetime89 · 20/01/2021 22:01

my school is not that good. we have a few recorded videos showing phonics/ art. Also we have links to download worksheets that need a printer, if you don't have a printer your just unable to do them as they refuse to print anything or provide packs.

musicinspring1 · 20/01/2021 22:04

My year 1 has three live lessons a day from their class teacher - 10 minutes each. A mixture of stories / explaining tasks and games.
Work uploaded to online platform daily and any that is returned online is marked /and or commented on by the next day.
I’ve been very impressed ! State school , one form entry.

AmoElCafe · 20/01/2021 22:23

I’m glad we don’t have more live lessons than 2 a week. I have a year 1, a year 2, a toddler at home and a job... I wouldn’t be able to facilitate them.

bubblebubblebubbletrouble · 20/01/2021 22:31

My yr1 dd gets phonics, English, reading skills (haven't worked out the difference yet), maths & an other (geog, history, re, art) per day. Spellings & common exception words weekly. Daily reading 15 mins.
It's set on dojo with a mix of slides/youtube links/phonicsplay and worksheets on dojo portfolio. I'm not finding the electronic option particularly user friendly but am working full time so haven't tried that hard.
1 x 20min live zoom French class per week.
1 x daily pre-recorded video from her teacher
I would probably use it as a base and tweak it if I wasn't working but it's ok.

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snowone · 20/01/2021 22:47

DD is year 2. We are getting 1 zoom A WEEK, and a couple of live videos (2/3 mins each) the rest is worksheets and powerpoints. I'm a teacher myself and the students in our school are getting 4 zooms a day, all with live teaching.
DH is struggling to work and teach!

Fleurchamp · 20/01/2021 22:47

*disclaimer - this is a private school.

We have a daily 1:1 (15 mins) with the TA to do reading.
A weekly 1:1 with the teacher (for DS, up to 30 mins, usually less as concentration wanes) and one evening a week to sign up for parents to speak to the teacher about how their child is doing (this has been great as she has tailored some work for DS).
5 recorded lessons per day - with work set (all work can be done without printing) which is marked and commented on each day.
Weekly group session with 5 children per group.
Daily story time.
Daily PE lessons.
Weekly assembly - this is really cute as the head mentions children and shows off pictures/ arts and crafts/ video clips etc that we submit and really fosters the relationship between school and home.
They are also organising socials for the parents via zoom.
I am really happy with it, I have a younger child to wrangle plus work. Being able to watch recorded lessons is really helpful - we get the work the day before so I can work out a plan for the next day.
There are never more than 2 live sessions a day - I don't know how you manage to fit in life and work around live sessions - do they provide recordings or is it, miss it and miss out completely?

SellFridges · 21/01/2021 08:10

Year 1 DS gets:

  • Morning Teams call with a phonics lesson, a summary of the work for the day and time for questions/news
  • Four pieces of world set online a day (maths, English, reading and something else), sometimes with videos recorded by the teacher (videos are becoming more frequent now they’re in their stride)
  • PM Teams call for questions/news and a story

Whole school assembly is once a week by Zoom.

badlydrawnbear · 22/01/2021 10:51

2 zoom meetings a day except when the morning one is replaced with zoom assembly. The morning zoom is a chat about the work and usually the teacher reads a story in the afternoon one.
Then there are lessons set with pre-recorded videos of the teacher and/ or worksheets. She is supposed to do 2 maths lessons, phonics, literacy and handwriting everyday plus a lesson from the other subjects (history, geography, science, art, music, r.e etc). This is set on BGFL 365 which is a terrible website (though I have no experience of the alternatives).
It takes us longer than the school day, as I also have to help DC1 who is in year 5, and neither of them will work independently, they can’t both watch videos at the same time and I can’t send one to another room because DH is working, and 2 zoom meetings per child a day takes up 2hrs.

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