Make me feel better my y10 is getting one face to face appointment in the next six weeks

[Mostpeculiar]

Whereas we’re surrounded by schools offering small group teaching equating to 10-18 hours for each child, over the remaining term

I’m only talking state here, ours is a bog std deprived area comp where a lot of kids aren’t doing any work, my child’s Jan mocks where all 7-9’ s she now averages 45min to an hours work a day as she only has to hand in 2/3 pieces of work each week

Tell me I’m not the only one

You're not. Very similar here.

Same here. With vague idea that in July they may try and do some small group stuff. To be honest though I can see why, my ds has a full timetable every day, gets feedback, teachers very responsive. It's working quite well. Why change it for the last 2 weeks of term?

You're not the only one. It's taking DD about an hour to do the set work, some days a bit more, she's been offered a few Google Meets before the end of term. She goes to an outstanding school in a naice area, I'm disappointed and concerned.

Might be due to staffing

Also staff can’t be online doing all that jazz and in school

There are lots of resources online, might not be bad to start a page of resources for Y10s by subject, and by board. Maybe, even try and access Student Room

Our year 10s are getting no teaching in school and just a few hours before summer in school so you aren't alone. The online work takes about an hour a day. State comp.

Mine are y8 and y9 but obviously y9 is in y10 in September and not looking like there will be much in school then either.

My Y10 is getting a 30 min session once a week.. Nothing academic, it's for mental health. Woefully inadequate imo. Online work takes an average of 2 hours a day. Rarely marked and feedback given.

Y10 here v large comp in decent area. No online learning as yet. She is supposed to go back on 22nd for half a day a week!!!!
She is totally disillusioned, downbeat, depressed and behind with her school work, her future and missing her school friends.

All school pupils are in the same position. DS1 (Y12) and DS2 (Y10), both attend the same super-selective state grammar school. Work being offered online is not rigorous in terms of breadth or depth. YouTube, Student Room and Revision Books are the way forward.

I’m going to have to put up with bbc news going into green leafy comps tomorrow aren’t I ?! where they explain how they’ve got a quarter of the kids in each day for four five hours and we’ll see the smiley immaculately uniformed middle class kids sitting there socially distancing and everyone will think everything is fine in the world except it won’t be as my foot will be inside the telly!!

Mostpeculiar
I agree with you, and share your frustration

There's already a BBC article and Twitter post saying year 10s are getting between 5 and 30 hours in school teaching a week. Our school its zero, they can go in for a few hours and do online stuff by themselves but that's it and online stuff takes us an hour each day.

@KoalasandRabbit

There's already a BBC article and Twitter post saying year 10s are getting between 5 and 30 hours in school teaching a week. Our school its zero, they can go in for a few hours and do online stuff by themselves but that's it and online stuff takes us an hour each day.

Thought so

My son has two. That’s two lessons in all in 4 months ( from mid March to end of year)
I feel teachers have pitted their wits against any pleas by parents/ government directives etc to get back to the classroom.

@Mostpeculiar I don’t think the leafy green enclaves are necessarily doing better. DS is in a comprehensive in a desirable suburb of London and the provision has been shocking, see my post above.

Here it is 1 day a week, all year 10 being divided down over 4 days and then having Friday as an extra day so they may well cycle children through with some of them having 2 days a week.

The logistics are crazy, I believe the government has said only 25% of pupils can be in at one time and they cannot have different groups making up the 25% ie morning one set and afternoon a completely different set.

They are concentrating on maths, English, sciences and then trying to cover everything else if possible. This is alongside online learning too.

I think they are in bubbles of 10. My son is in year 9 so I only really read the newsletter out of interest rather than print it off and pin it up. I feel sorry for the pupils and the staff who must be feeling the pressure to do well under such shit circumstances.

@whataboutbob I'm sorry your DS is only getting two lessons in school. My Y10 DD isn't getting any but my DH is back in his school teaching Y10 & Y12. I'm back in my school teaching too.

I know a lot of teachers and haven't come across a single one who is digging their heels in about returning to school. I know of two who are shielding because of organ transplants or a raft of underlying health conditions.

Please don't fall for the trap of assuming that media reports are accurate and/or fair. English schools aren't built or staffed to accommodate classes of 15 with one teacher. The school curriculum isn't designed to be taught to 25% of a cohort at any one time. Neither of those decisions were made by teachers but we have to stick to them - if your DS's school can only offer two days of teaching it's unlikely to be because teachers are being stubborn.

I've just dropped my DD off at school - she's got 3 hours every Monday for the next 4 weeks. Had a huge meltdown, didn't want to go, anxiety through the roof - and she's not a girl that usually stresses about anything much at all. Think there's going to be a lot of kids who find this very overwhelming, it's going to take a lot of time to get back to normal for everyone.

I’m sorry @SE13Mummy but until I see a bit more concrete action I will continue to believe what I believe. DS1 is effectively getting 2 lessons in 6 months , DS 2 ( year 8)is getting none and despite assurances that lessons would become more involving and teachers would be providing feedback after the half term, only 1 teacher has posted an online lesson, the others just upload lessons and give no feedback whatsoever. Teachers talk the talk about safety, safeguarding, vulnerable children etc. For my kids, and for those of many other people I know this has translated into precious little. Not trying to be disagreeable here, just relating my experience and interpretation.

I am not confrontational on mumsnet, but I am hugely disappointed at the provision from schools and I am not going to passively put up with it. My eldest has had a 1 hour zoom lesson today, there is nothing else scheduled until the 23rd. That’s in 8 days. He does not go into school until the 30th. So much for face to face provision as from the15th. My youngest has just told me he is getting really demotivated, teachers simply post long documents online and ask them to read, no feedback given. FYI I am not getting this from the media, this is my experience and of course my kids’ . And for further clarification, I do not read the daily mail. My papers of choice are the guardian and Le Monde. Same issues being reported in France.

I didn’t see what I was expecting from the BBC this morning after all but I did see the Daily Fail is aware of the one off appointments, the media doesn’t seem to be making a fuss like they did with primary wonder why?

A lot of primary parents seem to think that secondary kids can teach themselves the curriculum at home conveniently forgetting what it's like to be in secondary and having subjects you find hard or require technical rooms like DT or science.

I think it could be primary = childcare = parents back to work, money in economy. Secondary = impact on child which could well adversely affect their income potential but not in this government's term of office. Though a lot seems to be geared by how loud people are shouting / petitions atm.

It's crap OP. If it's any comfort, in Scotland no secondary school children are getting any contact time at all prior to the summer holidays.
When my oldest DC was in Reception in England, I learned the hard way that you can't just rely on the school to educate your child. Apparently my 4 year old wasn't bright enough to learn the core words. So I taught her to read myself and she's currently got an Oxbridge university offer. If your school is only giving 1 hour's worth of work, take it further yourself. I get that you won't find it easy or possible to do that in every subject, so just pick the ones you can help with, or if possible pay for an online tutor in 1 or 2 subjects and focus on those for now, or teach her something outside of the curriculum. Even it it's just learning the recorder or ukalele (which almost anyone can do at a basic level) and watching documentaries while you work. Or she could learn a language using Duolingo and other online resources. It's still an education.

@spottedelk

It's crap OP. If it's any comfort, in Scotland no secondary school children are getting any contact time at all prior to the summer holidays. When my oldest DC was in Reception in England, I learned the hard way that you can't just rely on the school to educate your child. Apparently my 4 year old wasn't bright enough to learn the core words. So I taught her to read myself and she's currently got an Oxbridge university offer. If your school is only giving 1 hour's worth of work, take it further yourself. I get that you won't find it easy or possible to do that in every subject, so just pick the ones you can help with, or if possible pay for an online tutor in 1 or 2 subjects and focus on those for now, or teach her something outside of the curriculum. Even it it's just learning the recorder or ukalele (which almost anyone can do at a basic level) and watching documentaries while you work. Or she could learn a language using Duolingo and other online resources. It's still an education.

Don’t get me wrong she’s a dab hand at fresh pasta and focaccia since we’ve been locked up !!