This doesn't include NASUWT who have gone their own way but the other unions have just released this excellent statement:
www.naht.org.uk/news-and-opinion/news/leadership-news/coronavirus-joint-union-advice/
This bit is the best bit :
This is not education as we have known it. SATS, GCSEs, AS and A level exams, as well as Ofsted inspections have all been cancelled.
Children and young people have very different home lives and very different levels of parental support. It is not feasible to carry on as before during this crisis. We cannot ‘home school’ the nation’s children.
Children in school will not be following a normal timetable – with lessons and homework. The main focus, certainly in the short-term, will be on ensuring that children are safe and supported. In the slightly longer-term, teachers or educators may have more capacity to think about the learning opportunities they can provide to children in school, recognising that this is likely to continue to look very different from a whole-day timetable of structured lessons.
Whilst the immediate focus will be caring for and supporting those pupils in school, leaders and teachers are also starting to put in place processes and resources to support children’s learning at home. However, it is not possible to replicate a usual school experience at home. It is not reasonable, or feasible for schools to continue to provide a ‘normal’ school education during this time. Many schools do not have the resources to do this and we know that children and young people have very different home circumstances. Some will have good access to the internet. Others will not.
As schools start to think about how they might want to support those pupils at home, they need to be mindful of these very different circumstances, particularly pupil’s access to technology which may have changed as whole families are working from home. There may be children who aren’t able to complete online work and in these situations schools should set alternative or complementary learning activities that do not require technology.
It is important to remember that when it comes to younger pupils, schools may also want to give parents ideas for interactive activities, games and 'challenges’.
Teachers working at home can only carry out a reasonable workload, and this must be discussed with staff. Schools should also explore opportunities for teachers to collaborate when it comes to designing home learning activities.
Schools need to be mindful that their staff will have demands and pressures of their own, such as childcare and so it may not be possible for them to work a ‘usual’ school day.
Schools also need to mindful that those staff who are in school cannot be expected to be supporting home learning at the same time. Schools should not be formally monitoring staff ‘performance’ during this period.
Teachers should not be asked to personally contact individual students on a daily basis, except where they have agreed with their head teacher a system to contact vulnerable children and families. Teachers should not use personal phones or emails for this contact. It is extremely important that all schools remind their staff and pupils of their policies for safe internet usage and review whether any specific changes to the policy need to be made to take the new circumstances into account.
Schools should also consider setting out a clear statement for parents which details the school’s approach to any home learning and protocols for communication between school and home.
Until we know what arrangements will be made by Ofqual, in consultation with us, about the awarding of grades for public exams, teachers should not be setting exam-related work for year 11 and 13 students, grading and marking it, collating ‘portfolios’, and/or doing predicted grades.