Are schools returning ON or FROM 11th?

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Is the guidance for schools to return ON or FROM 11th?

We were due back on 19th and have a UK holiday booked for the week before.

Council's publish their school term dates years in advance and our childminder gives us her year planner too. ON 11th will bugger up a lot of plans. Teachers will also have made summer holidays plans and shouldn't miss out on their holidays.

Does anyone know when we can expect further guidance - especially from our local Council/ school? I'd really prefer it to be ON 19th.

Nutty it's so tough when they don't share your love for reading. For my new S2 I having been doing Roald Dahl short stories as I needed to find material that's available online (the stories are saved as PDFs) and enjoyable. Would short fiction be a compromise? I have tried to keep the tasks varied. So one language analysis task, one writing (letter, newspaper article , text message conversation) and one broadly creative (create the crime scene, design a stage set..) and the pupils have really bought into it. Dry reading tasks won't engage learners . I also encourage them to create their own tasks if they want to do something different and the results have been amazing. Would your DD respond to a challenge like that?

Reading newspaper articles together. Give her a highlighter to spot unusual words, sentence structure, imagery, unfamiliar vocabulary.

I tried to use the BBCBITESIZE stuff for differentiated material for an ASN pupil and he told in no uncertain terms that he was not a "wee wean"! .

Lidlfix - I’m so jealous you seem to be allowed to do interesting stuff. I’ve taught nothing but RUAE since April.

Murray that's grim! For all concerned, no chance to do all fun things that help stop RUAE being the boring part of the course. I am lucky I have lots of autonomy, I do appreciate how fortunate I am. Though I am worried about how I can maintain this in "blended learning" , not that I have any idea what that means yet .

Thanks so much @Lidlfix

She loves doing challenges, just not anything I set her because I'm a nag apparently.

She's currently doing some kind of exercise about tv adverts for English and came down to ask for my help. So at least she wants my help today.

I remember being told to read more newspapers, and I did, and that's the difference between me and DD. She is very stubborn and says no.

Nutty not only am I a nag but a whole barrel of cringe... until their pals wanted a hand

Thanks for the offer of help with the English Lidl . He’s been given a RUAE to do with quite an engaging and topical subject - he hasn’t done it yet but I might try and persuade him again tomorrow. The book he’s supposed to be reading remains unread by his bed as it has done for the past 4 weeks. I have to decide whether to bring the mood of the whole house down by getting on his case which would lead to strops and arguments or just hope he’ll really pull his finger out when school starts back up again. I suppose the upshot might be that he’ll not do very well in his Highers next year and who knows what the Knock-on effect will be. Trying not to catastrophise. He, as I said, worked so hard for his Prelims but lost all impetus when the exams were cancelled. Has become totally cynical about the education system. I know he’s not alone in feeling like this but it’s hard work trying to constantly keep encouraging when I feel I can’t really help.

Stay - that sounds so hard . When you think of what they experienced; losing what they were working towards, their familiar routines, their social lives, part time jobs, summer holiday plans... in a space of days. And then we expect them to pick themselves back up.

There will be so much effort put in to getting pupils to the same starting point as we have many in each class who will have been ill, caring for siblings, suffered bereavement, sharing tech between many... or just not able to access remote learning as they are not in a place to.

Your concern about bringing down the atmosphere of the whole house is spot on. Really, for the few weeks till the end of term, would it be catastrophic if he does not engage? He'll pick back RUAE , maybe need a study guide or to watch the DVD (if there is one) to catch up with the novel.

Certainly we are being told that in the early days of return that the emphasis will be on reassurance.

Stay - that sounds so hard . When you think of what they experienced; losing what they were working towards, their familiar routines, their social lives, part time jobs, summer holiday plans... in a space of days. And then we expect them to pick themselves back up.

There will be so much effort put in to getting pupils to the same starting point as we have many in each class who will have been ill, caring for siblings, suffered bereavement, sharing tech between many... or just not able to access remote learning as they are not in a place to.

Your concern about bringing down the atmosphere of the whole house is spot on. Really, for the few weeks till the end of term, would it be catastrophic if he does not engage? He'll pick back RUAE , maybe need a study guide or to watch the DVD (if there is one) to catch up with the novel.

Certainly we are being told that in the early days of return that the emphasis will be on reassurance.