BBC to start broadcasting lessons from 20th April

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It seems the BBC is stepping up as a public broadcaster to provide an education during lockdown. A TV channel, online lessons, resources, podcasts.

www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize

This has the potential to be a fantastic resource. Will the DfE start actually doing some coordinating? Centrally mandated lessons on TV could really help reach disadvantaged kids who don’t have access to the devices needed for what schools are offering. It could also save teachers a massive job in trying to create their own content.

Watch this space, I guess.

It's like going back to them old days when you couldn't sleep and only had open university programs to entertain you. Brilliant idea though. I think all this wfh and home-edding will really change how society is when this pandemic is over

I really hope there are lessons on the TV channel and not just online. One third of our students have no access to WiFi, so cannot access our efforts at providing online learning.

Yes, the TV channel could be majorly useful - but hard to provide lessons at every level on one channel. Do most families have the facility to record lessons that are broadcast at weird times?

Isn’t it on the red button on tv?

No idea, what happens when you press the red button??

Hallelujah for this!

No sport on red button - this is a great place to put it.

I'm really looking forward to these lessons! I hope they are really old school, like Look Around You.

Could shape a generation!

Look and read! Can we have look and read back? And maybe time and tune??

And spywatch. Don’t forget about spywatch and that damn peacock 😂

Spy watch was a look and read! What else was good?

The provision looks amazing.

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/coronavirus-education

“ BBC Bitesize Daily

Every day, 6x20' programmes, Bitesize Daily, will air on BBC iPlayer and BBC Red Button targeting six age groups, from 5 to 14, where teachers, experts and famous faces cover off what that age group should be learning that day. Each programme will be available on BBC iPlayer as well as having its own regular slot on BBC Red Button aiding routine and daily structure.

From Bitesize Daily, parents and children will be directed online to BBC Bitesize for an age appropriate ‘daily drop’ of specially curated videos, quizzes, podcasts and worksheets to bring to life core curriculum subjects such as Maths, English and Science. As well as being offered suggestions on how to extend learning around the home.

These shows are aimed at all children across the UK and split into age groups 5-7 years, 7-9 years, 9-11 years, 11-12, 12-13 years and 13-14 years.”

“Bitesize Daily Online

Bitesize Daily Online will deliver a newly created Maths and English lesson every day, for each year group from 1-10. Resources from BBC Bitesize, other parts of the BBC, and trusted education providers, are being brought together to create these easy-to-follow daily lessons in the core subjects. As well as offering resources in Maths, English and Science, parents and children will find resources for other subjects such as history, geography and art. The online content will also complement the daily broadcast with video, quizzes, infographics and articles that help children build on the learning from each broadcast. The website will also house guides offering help to parents about how to teach their child, advice for effective home schooling, and guides for pupils with SEN (Special Education Needs).

On social media, parents will be able to access further advice about teaching via BBC Bitesize Facebook and Twitter which will be updated regularly with helpful guides.
BBC iPlayer

BBC iPlayer will serve up specially curated content to showcase the very best curriculum-related videos and programmes. Organised by year group and subject, it will be easy for children to find and navigate further support for their learning.
BBC Sounds

Two brand new daily education podcasts will be available on BBC Sounds aimed at parents of primary and secondary pupils. Each episode will last around ten minutes and will be a guide to help families home schooling find content on the BBC that supports their education and wellbeing. Both podcasts - BBC Bitesize Primary Planner and BBC Bitesize Secondary Planner - will be available on voice devices too.”

BBC Four

BBC Four will devote a block of programming each weekday evening to shows that support GCSE and A-Level curriculums to feed the brains of students during these shutdown days.

The channel will bring back premium factual programmes presented by some of Britain’s most authoritative voices on Science and History. For students studying Science, programmes of interest for them include Pain, Pus & Poison, Chemistry: A Volatile History, Blood & Guts: A History of Surgery and Shock & Awe: The Story of Electricity. And for students of History, highlighted programmes include Mary Beard’s Meet the Romans, Michael Wood’s Story of England, Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain and Tunes For Tyrants.

These factual programmes are in addition to the previously announced Shakespeare plays which will see BBC Four broadcast theatre versions of Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado about Nothing, Othello and Hamlet.

The BBC will also broadcast the much loved BBC adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream from Russell T Davies and Anthony Hopkins’ King Lear and there will be further classic drama adaptations on the current exam syllabus confirmed soon.

Thank god for that! Now we might get furloughed though!

Great for me as a parent - I teach sixth form though so not much help for my teaching!

This is telling in the latest DfE guidance

There is also a large chunk saying staff should be paid as normal this term as funding being provided to schools at usual level.

Yes, we’ve been told were paid as normal until
September as the money’s already there. In fact, as college is closed, payroll for the next two months has already been completed.

Mind you, we’re expected to teach all our courses as normal to the best of our ability and put in the same number of hours (albeit perhaps at different times) so I don’t see why we wouldn’t be paid.

Well, the BC Bitesize Daily schedule is up for next week.
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons

I'm not sure it looks that great TBH. The maths is definitely under par compared to the White Rose home learning, so I really hope White Rose carry on.

I will probably direct my class to the science, history and geography- but not English and maths.

Does anybody know where to find a schedule for what will be on iplayer?

In terms of English, as I suspected , these are the resources that already existed : and have probably already been used.

I agree, and based on that I'd say they will run out during about week 3. What then??

Oh, and there's no year 8 or 9 English!

There is but it’s not every day (same as maths).