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Next thread. DD's birthday so can someone link.

I'm also wishing we would hear something from the high school about how online learning will work. We've had great info from the primary school, I think the first thing the head teacher did before she even took her coat off was send round a "We're back, we're working on it, if you need any help with tech please let us know asap" type message, then yesterday a full weekly timetable and loads of info on how to log in, how things will work etc. It's been great.

Not a word from the high school at all, not even a holding "We're working on it" message. I hope it comes tomorrow so we can be sort of organised for the start of the week. It's all so stressful.

But in a way I'll be quite glad if we have to sit down and work out a timetable of who has to do what online when, last time we just got a bunch of work for the week and you could do it whenever you liked. We really suffered from the lack of structure and timetable. I tried to set up a timetable but no-one was interested in my timetable. I think they would follow one from school though.

Yes, @Rae36 I’m hopeful of set online work that he is to complete by set dates, rather than the “do it if you want worksheets” of last time.

Then it’s between him and the school, not me.

And we are fortunate to have tech available, though pretty rubbish WiFi and printer

What are we thinking about my May 1srr wedding? Was hoping for 27 day guests and 20 more at night
Am I dreaming?!!!

May 1st obviously....

@Rae36 if it's any consolation DS14 is back at his online school today. It's private but the provision last time was just as you describe with great dollops of emails and no particular structure.

We got an email yesterday about how it would work, a roll call this morning and DS appears to be immersed in activities, corresponding to his school timetable.DH has switched off access to his gaming laptop and xbox during the day, so as he is holed in his room, I'm assuming he is doing school work.

So far it appears much, much better than previous time round.

Let's hope that blue line takes some inspiration from the current virus gradients and heads steeply upwards!

Better times - 1st May, I'd think you'd possibly get a wedding with 20 people if you're very lucky. But I don't think any more than that.

One of the other schools in our area is looking at 1 literacy, 1 numeracy and 1 other session per day. I just want to know the details so I can plan grandparent zooms, outside exercise and alter 2 yo's nap schedule to suit!

I think with a LO in the house if you manage the numeracy and literacy your doing ok

Hopefully deaths will fall quickly as NS today said half of care home residents already vaccinated. 1/3 of total deaths so far have been in this group. (there are only 35,000 care home residents in total).

2.7m looks like a high estimate. That is 60% of the entire adult population - not just over 50s plus healthcare. (The BBC article on England's priority 1-9 list came to 25m but acknowledged there was double counting within the figures)

Tried to find equivalent flu vax info for Scotland without success. NHS says they have 2.4m doses available for all eligible groups with 75% of 65+ vaccinated. The NHS England figure for doses given, as opposed to available is 14m.

deaths are already falling overal, despite BBC headline saying something about 350 ish over festive period, which turned out to be 14 days worth.

Is it too much to ask for just some proper figures and decent analysis?

I’m hoping this time round DDs school provides some sort of learning. Last time it was a link to Sumdog and that was it

At the risk of sounding heartless. Could part of the fear be in the first wave they didn't know how to treat covid, people affected were older and died quicker. Where younger people are less sick so don't died but clog up the hospital for longer.

Still very stressful for the staff treating them.

The (secondary) school I work in will have pupils working to timetable as far as possible. Each teacher will post work for their own classes so pupils will primarily interact with their own teachers.
This will be a mixture of live teaching, completing and submitting posted tasks and direct online interaction (discussions etc).

We'll see how it goes.

No details about home learning here for primary school apart from a message on seesaw to ask if we have the book we will be reading at home as they don’t have enough. Turns out it is the same book as my older son read during March lockdown but we’ve not to read ahead as it will spoil the work! As it’s a roald Dahl book and child is eight we have rather obviously already read it even before my older child used it for class text. We’ve also listened to the audio book for a car journey. Sure my son won’t be at all bored with that 😬. Wondering if I am allowed to opt out (he did all the work with his brother btw as it was more fun than his work)
Last time we had books and worksheets and jotters sent home on the last day of school but nothing this time. Also our iPad just died so I’m going to have to look for another one I think 😬
Our school also asked if we had access to a device rather than if we had one each and we needed to use the printer a lot last time. If we hadn’t had one it would have been very tough to get the work done. Thankfully working at home meant we had stuff like that plus unlimited paper 😊

Icanboogie that's sounds great but really does rely on kids having their own device, not just access to a shared device.

What we don’t have is any space to work apart from the kitchen table which we have to eat at as well. Looking at loft beds now 🙄

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Icanboogie that's sounds great but really does rely on kids having their own device, not just access to a shared device.

All pupils have been issued with an iPad (Glasgow) but bandwidth (and charging ) will almost certainly be an issue. My thoughts are that if a pupil can't get on at the lesson time they can access everything later and see what they've missed.

Like I say, I have my doubts, but we'll see how it goes.

I think part of it is that we still don't have proper figures on people "with" and people ill or dying "from" covid. It's more endemic in society now so more people admitted for any reason will have it when admitted or catch it when in, lots of slips trips and falls this week so people be in with various broken bones and a % will be positive, that % will be a lot higher than the summer and the % of people in hospital for any reason will be higher.

We don't really have the transparent figures to know.

Still waiting to hear what's happening for dd who is in S3. She's stressed already as they have to drop a subject and that's to be done by March. Hoping to get some info from her high school soon, NLC.
Ds is back to school on Monday - I took annual leave this week as I didn't know what would be happening. He's in S1 and is at an asn school - not sure if most pupils will be in of just key worker's kids (me and dh are key workers).

Just Incase this could be of use to anyone - there are free resources on this link for 3-5 and 5-7year olds to help with home learning. I’ve had a look and there is quite a few to choose from and for free 🤗

resource-bank.scholastic.co.uk/content/40114?fbclid=IwAR3qSHL8lyjNdDtAIMiovE-Ndmtuw8tOqStZPWelT2t8G3vXYA6mRuSu4HA

This might be useful for those with younger children? Was shared in another group.

No, at this point in, and with all the privations we face data collection still rubbish. Vaccine roll out info still patchy. No idea whether the govt is making plans to catch up kids with skill lags rather than just funnel them out with estimated grades.

No idea when they'll go back - I'm still clinging to hope that it'll be feb 1 because we don't know what the numbers will do yet.

My work are meant to be organising new laptops for us all, no fancy spec or programs just bog standard windows stuff. It's 14 weeks before we can expect to have them from placing the order. Even if councils pulled their finger out now to get devices to people who needed them it probably wouldn't be possible. They should've been doing it months ago.

Last time round dc2 teacher didn't have a computer and was posting notes from her phone on seesaw and blurry photographs of worksheets, dc1 got a pile of twinkl worksheets dumped in a good drive in March and left to it. No other contact or interaction.

I can see school from where we live and the teacher car park is full today, so hopefully they're working hard to put something decent together. I don't hold my breath though.

How come tiny charities and community organisations could move services online in a matter of weeks and schools have had months to prepare and can't do it?

Icanboogie - I'm mighty impressed by a large council like GCC. Go them!

There definitely hasn't been blanket provision across Lanarkshire. The other councils that have heard of doing it are Borders and one that's so small it was potentially outing for poster to say which council she was in.