Remote Education

Remote Education

Information and support for parents and carers of children who are learning from home.

If your child is well but required to self-isolate and cannot attend school, the school will provide daily learning for them to complete. Learning will reflect what is happening in the classroom to ensure that your child is not disadvantaged by being unable to attend school in person.

The curriculum may be delivered to your child in a variety of ways depending on whether the whole class has been requested to self-isolate or whether it is an individual case.  In the case of an individual, the offer will differ due to the challenges of teaching children both in the classroom and at home.  In both cases, children will be taught a planned and well-sequenced curriculum with meaningful and ambitious work each day in a number of different subjects and feedback will be provided.  Learning might involve activities such as:

• live teaching (online lessons)
• recorded teaching (e.g. Oak National Academy lessons, video/audio recordings made by teachers)
• online quizzes
• textbooks and reading books pupils have at home
• commercially available websites supporting the teaching of specific subjects or areas, including video clips or sequences
• long-term project work and/or internet research activities

KS1

Children will be expected to complete between 1 and 3 hours of learning a day, as directed by their class teacher, depending on their age.

Parents and carers have been invited to join Class Dojo where daily learning will be assigned for your child as well as messages from the teacher.

Completed work can be uploaded in the portfolio section for your child’s teacher to see and give feedback.

Further information about how to access this platform can be found here:

How does my child log on to Class Dojo from home?

KS2

Children will be expected to complete 4 hours of learning a day, as directed by their class teacher.

Children have been issued with log on details for their own Google Classroom accounts where daily learning will be assigned for your child as well as updates and messages from the teacher.

Completed work should be completed on or uploaded to the Google Classroom for your child’s teacher to review and give feedback.

Children can log on to their Google Classroom here:

Google Classroom

Oxford Owl e-library

All children have access to a range of reading material, at their appropriate level including phonic stage, on the Oxford Owl e-library website:

Oxford Owl e-library

Each child has their own log on for where they can access the reading homework the teacher has set for them to complete. Children should read for at least 10 minutes daily.

How can I support my child with Remote Learning?

Establish a routine for study, including rest breaks and time for exercise.  A suggested KS2 timetable might look like this:

Your teacher will provide regular feedback and responses to your learning through Class Dojo or Google Classroom.  You may also be contacted by phone if engagement with remote learning becomes a concern.  Feedback may take many forms, including comments on work and next steps for improvement, computerised marking of online quizzes, whole-class feedback on a task or one-to-one conversations with the teacher.  The amount of teacher feedback will depend upon whether the whole class bubble is closed or if a single child is self-isolating, due to the demands on the teacher to teach both in school and to children at home.

If my child does not have digital or online access at home, how will they access the remote education?

If your child does not have digital or online access at home, contact the school office on 522469 for further information on ways we can support you.

• We may be able to make a laptop or ipad available for use with remote learning.
• We may be able to provide a dongle to allow access to the internet.
• We may be able to supply hard copies of work.
• We will provide further information on how work completed can be shared with your child’s teacher.

If my child needs addition support from adults at home, how can the school support me?

We recognise that some pupils, for example some pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), may not be able to access remote education without support from adults at home. We acknowledge the difficulties this may place on families, and we will work with parents and carers to support those pupils in the following ways:

• Contact with the SENCO, Mrs Eagar, to devise an individual remote learning plan.
• Targetted work to address statements on your child’s Pupil Passport.
• The type of activity set will be taken into consideration to meet the needs of your child.