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Yr 11 support for students self isolating

16 replies

mumma24 · 08/12/2020 13:45

I would like to know what your school are doing to support them

Live lessons?
My daughter has been asked twice to self isolate and left to her own devices to get on with the work set. No or very little (1 a week) live lessons.

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Disneyvillain · 08/12/2020 18:19

Hi OP, yes when my DD had to self isolate she had live lessons. Fortunately the school seems well set up for it. Sorry to hear about your daughter’s experience.

silkiecat · 08/12/2020 19:05

Y9 and Y10 here, luckily no self-isolation so far for y10 but y9 is on his second two week one. Work is coming through as tasks on show my homework, first isolation there was 1 live lesson, this one I think there will be 2 live lessons this week. It's really hard to hear the teacher on the live ones and the kids are so loud. My DS y9is ASD so I have to do everything with him. Its hard for the teachers as well as they are teaching as well as having to put lessons up on show my homework.

It's a bit annoying as both DS's have been caused by drama lessons as whole class goes out each time as they all mix. I wish they would stop the mixing in that lesson but difficult to teach then I guess.

silkiecat · 08/12/2020 19:06

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SansaSnark · 09/12/2020 06:54

We are doing live lessons for students self isolating where possible (luckily not Y11 yet) but it is dependent on freeing up a teacher by amalgamating classes of the students still in school - so if, say, only 20 students were off it might not be possible.

When we can't do live lessons, we are providing narrated PowerPoints and meaningful feedback on any work completed.

That said, I ran a live lesson for Y8 yesterday and only about 1/3 of isolating students turned up. The recording is available to watch later, and I know some students have poor internet connections, which is an issue.

We don't do live lessons where the teacher is also teaching students in class as it's considered a safeguarding risk. I think it would also be really difficult to manage.

blametheparents · 09/12/2020 06:59

I wish that the DFE, or Ofsted, or whoever would give a definitive answer on ‘safeguarding’ with regard to live lessons.
I know of local schools that won’t run live lessons at all, will run live lessons (but not record them), will allow live lessons to go ahead (but not at the same time as students are in the classroom being taught), and countless other combinations of circumstances and ‘safeguarding’ is used as the reason every time!
I’m so confused!

GrasswillbeGreener · 09/12/2020 11:56

Mine are yr 11 and yr 13 at independent schools. Both have set things up so that classroom lessons can be largely followed by isolating students. Or, particularly the last couple of weeks, by overseas boarders who've gone home early for Christmas. I get the impression that my yr 13 has routinely had several class members online in most of her lessons since October.

KittyMcKitty · 09/12/2020 13:00

If a student is self isolating they just join their normal class via Google Meet. My dc did this for the first couple of days of term as were self isolating- it worked well for them. During lockdown 1 lessons were via Google Meet so they all know how to use it.

The schools been really fortunate with just 2 positive cases (just close contacts had to isolate).

PetCheetah · 09/12/2020 13:07

DS year 11 has had 2 periods of self isolating. The work's set on Google Classroom and the teachers are available by email. The last period most lessons were live by Google Meet.

Todaythiscouldbe · 09/12/2020 13:12

DS Y11 is on day 3 of isolation, his whole year is off so it is a bit different but he has live lessons all day. Strangely though we have been told that if a teacher is teaching elsewhere they will set worksheets. As I firmly believe year 11 should be a priority I don't quite understand how a teacher timetabled to teach would be elsewhere but we're going with it for now - he's lost 4 out of 14 lessons so far.

Hoppinggreen · 09/12/2020 21:56

Full lesson timetable on TEAMS plus homework

XelaM · 10/12/2020 00:24

Full lessons on Teams following the usual timetable, but it’s a small prep school with the whole year group isolating, so it’s much easier to manage. Also to the poster who said kids on live lessons were loud and didn’t attend - why doesn’t the teacher get them to mute the microphones and take a note of attendance? That’s what my daughter’s school does

XelaM · 10/12/2020 00:25

Also they were all given laptops to take home to ensure every child is able to attend the lessons

MadameMinimes · 10/12/2020 16:28

Xela- I think that poster was talking about when the child is one of just a few at home and is tuning in for a lesson where there is a full class of kids on the other end. There’s often a fair bit of background noise in those cases and often students can hear the teacher speak but miss out on the other side of the conversation because they can’t always hear the person that the teacher is talking to. I have done these sorts of lessons and the larger the group and the more kids physically in the classroom, the harder it is for those at home to follow.

MadameMinimes · 10/12/2020 16:40

We mostly do full lessons on teams. Sometimes that isn’t possible but for the most part the timetable is fully live. I’ve taught live lessons when I’ve been isolating at home and my whole class are in school with me/my screen projected onto the board for them, ones where I’ve been in school and they’ve all been at home, ones where some of us the class are in school with me and some are at home joining remotely and some where I’m at home and so are all the kids. When all the kids are at home it generally works better than when there’s a mix and teaching from home when the class are all in school really depends on the class being well behaved and wanting to learn. It worked well for me, but I’m a member of SLT and I have only had to do it with very studious GCSE and A Level groups. I realise that an NQT with bottom set year 8 would likely have a different experience, which is why we don’t necessarily do those lessons in every circumstance. Sometimes it’s better to just set cover work for the supply teacher.

TicTacTwo · 12/12/2020 10:17

Y10 here and he has his first self isolation atm. His school currently does 3 double lessons a day.

He logs into Microsoft Teams for Form and each period. Each period is 60 minutes of live teaching and up to 40 minutes of work about that teaching. If the teacher is unable to teach (due to illness, covering a class or self isolating at home) then they send a pre-recorded lesson or up to 100 minutes of work instead.

Our school is a comp and the difference between lockdown and now is light and day. School were supposed to set up online working plans by 22nd October (?) and while it's not as good as real school, he's having a much better quality time than lockdown

Angel2702 · 12/12/2020 10:27

My year 10 had been doing love lessons all week, they had a couple of whole school practice days of working from home to make sure everyone was set up and it worked.

The whole school is now online only from yesterday and all have online lessons either live lessons or pre-recorded with teacher checking in via email

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