1 zoom call per week, no live lessons, 1 video uploaded each week.

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My son's primary school is just adding worksheets from twink and whiterosemaths onto their school's website, and aren't doing much else. There are no live lessons; sometimes a video is loaded and some weeks there is no video lessons; one reading book uploaded per week; no loggins for websites to provide other reading material; there is one zoom call per week etc.
They are providing exactly the same provisions as the lock down last year whereas i was expecting something more. Sometimes the worksheets are upload and there is no explanation about what needs to be done.
Am i being overly dramatic? My son is in yr 2 so maybe they are focusing on older children.

As a primary school governor, I am under the impression that schools have been expected to plan and up their game in case of isolation/bubbles closing/lockdown across the school.

The school's remote learning policy should have been on the school website from last Monday at the latest. You might want to see how this compares to your experience, and if necessary, ask questions of the head about the remote learning provision. In the meantime use BBC Bitesize offerings and Oak Academy.

As the previous poster said, they must have a remote learning policy available on their website. What you’ve described does not fulfil the requirements from the latest government guidance. They should be getting at least 3 hours of teaching/work a day. It doesn’t have to be live but there would be some live and/or recorded teaching. There should also be some dialogue with the teacher, ie, work handed in, marked and returned. Checkout the government document on remote learning.

And no, it’s not ok to say they’re focussing on older children. All the children are entitled to an education from the school.

My year 2 daughter is getting 2 live English and 2 live maths per week plus pre recorded videos for the other days.

Whereas we provide lessons from 8.45 until 3.15, all live via zoom, covering the whole curriculum.

They aren’t meeting the guidance from DfE by a long way. The rules are clear - must be three hours a day (not necessarily live, but that much content), there must be adjustments made for pupils (I.e they need to know how children are doing and adjust accordingly). In your case, they are failing on both fronts.

I know everyone wigged out when Gavin Williamson told parents to complain to Ofsted, but in this case, it seems appropriate (assuming you’ve spoken to teacher and head and got nowhere).

No, that's rubbish. I have a daughter in y3 and one in reception. For year 3 there are live lessons, videos, classwork with presentations, different types of work and a timetable. They have masively upped their game. New teacher I guess at have helped. My reception aged kid is getting less input, but it's harder for that age group.

Hey. Year 1 teacher here!

Definitely doesn't sound like enough.

Just to give you an idea of what my online learning consists of each day...

Video call with class - chat, game and share a chapter of our novel.
Link to Oxford Owl for online reading.
A phonics teaching video & activity.
A English teaching video & activity.
A maths teaching video & activity.
A daily handwriting/spelling video.
A daily wider curriculum video & activity.

Year 2 DD here.

She gets 1x prerecorded maths or english task per day. The other lesson is live streamed as it's being taught and then uploaded later. Then there's worksheets to go alongside it which are explained both in the video/live lesson and on the description.

2x a week theres a half hour class zoom call with either the teacher or the headteacher.

The other subjects theres a description of the task plus links to youtube/bitesize/whatever and an example of the work.

Teacher is posting personalised comments and also seems to adapting work so if I send something in DD hasn't understood another worksheet or booklet comes up thats better for DD to do.

It works well so I definitely think you're not getting a good deal.

That doesn't sound right. We're (secondary) not doing all live lessons because the children find it exhausting to sit in front of a live screen all day, but they have a full timetable and access to teachers all day.

Every child is timetabled five hours, which are a mixture of live lessons, recorded lessons and work set, but even for the recorded lessons and set work, teachers are available during the allocated slot to answer queries by email.

Their provision offer should be on their website.

I would query the provision but you also need to consider if they have a high amount of staff off sick, isolating or with child care issues. Is this a blip or the standard they are working at?

They don't have to provide live lessons but They should strive to be the best they can be. Ultmately they will be answerable to Ofsted for this.

I feel we are getting too much for Yr1, and the live lessons are painful to sit through if I'm honest. I don't envy the teachers.

We have 2 live zoom lessons a day. Follow up tasks and worksheets added. A science, writing and geography challenge each week. The teacher reads a story (upload a video of it) daily. Spellings, reading books, exercise /dance along videos.

There should be a remote learning plan in place. But I suppose it fully depends on your sons school, resources and teachers ability to work.

Personally my DCs school is doing a lot but we have some very demanding parents. One of my DCs is in yr2 and they have been a focus as there was a big gap in where the children where compared to where they should be with this year group when returning in September. I guess if your sons class is doing ok they may be focusing on other yr groups.