This information is intended to provide clarity and transparency to pupils and parents or carers about what to expect from remote education if local restrictions require entire cohorts (or bubbles) to remain at home. For details of what to expect where individual pupils are self-isolating, please see the final section of this information.
A pupil’s first day or two of being educated remotely might look different from our standard approach, while we take all necessary actions to prepare for a longer period of remote teaching.
Within 24 hours
a detailed daily home learning resources pack will be available on the class
pages of the school website. Within the first day of remote education, children
will be able to access differentiated learning via Mathletics and Spelling
Frame.
We teach the same curriculum remotely as we do in school wherever
possible and appropriate. However, we have needed to make some adaptations in
some subjects as we are aware that parents and carers may not have access to
the same resources we have in school. We understand that not all parents have
access to printing and therefore the work we set needs to be sensitive to this.
We are also aware that children will not have the same art, design and
technology and PE resources in school, so we have adapted lesson appropriately.
We expect that remote education (including remote
teaching and independent work) will take pupils broadly the following number of
hours each day:
KS1 |
3 hours per
day |
KS2 |
4 hours per day |
Each morning the children’s class pages on the
school website will be updated with maths, English and wider curriculum
lessons, which will be differentiated accordingly.
Alongside this, your children will be having
TEAMs sessions, either on a one-to-one, small group or whole class basis. This
will give children and parents/carers the opportunity to feedback on how they
have found the lessons and allow staff members to assess the children’s
progress.
The school will also be using the educational apps, ‘Mathletics’ and ‘Spelling frame’ to set children learning activities.
In the first instance, if parents/carers do not have digital devices to
access remote learning we will look into providing the required electronic
devices, through lending school ones or government initiatives.
If parents/carers cannot print the required learning material they can
request for packs to be printed at school, which they can collect on a weekly
basis.
If parents/carers cannot submit work to class teachers because of
online access, they can drop the work off at school, when they collect their
next pack.
The school will phone all parents/carers to check they can access
remote learning.
If parents/carers would like to inform the school they have a lack of
digital devices to access remote learning they can call the school (01503 262059) or email:
secretary@duloeprimary.co.uk
Each morning the children’s class pages on the school website will be
updated with maths, English and wider curriculum lessons, which will be
differentiated accordingly.
Alongside this, your children will be having TEAMs sessions, either on
a one-to-one, small group or whole class basis. This will give children and
parents/carers the opportunity to feedback on how they have found the lessons
and allow staff members to assess the children’s progress.
The school will also be using the educational apps, ‘Mathletics’ and ‘Spelling
frame’ to set children learning activities.
We fully
understand the challenge parents/carers face balancing the remote teaching of
their children, alongside the commitments of having other children at home and
their own work commitments.
Therefore, we
appreciate that home learning will have to work around family commitments,
rather than simply following a school timetable.
It is our
expectation that children engage with remote learning on a daily basis. This
may be via online live sessions, recorded teaching via the school website or
assigned tasks from teachers on educational apps.
If the school
has any concerns about a child’s lack of engagement with remote learning, we
will phone the parent/carer to discuss the matter.
Monitoring
engagement will be checked by phone calls and emails with parents/carers,
recording if children are present at live sessions online, if children have
uploaded their learning for teachers to assess and through the monitoring of
educational apps which shows whether a child has completed the task or not and
how well they have done this.
Each class will
also have a daily quiz on Microsoft TEAMs, which will record the names of the
children who have participated as well as their attainment.
Feedback can take many forms and may not always mean extensive written comments for individual children. For example, whole-class feedback or quizzes marked automatically via digital platforms are also valid and effective methods, amongst many others. Our approach to feeding back on pupil work is as follows:
Feedback may take
the form of email responses the class teacher makes from learning that has been
uploaded and sent to them.
Often it will be
through the conversations the teacher has individually with a child through
Microsoft TEAMs.
Our quizzes on TEAMs
and work set through Mathletics, also gives automatic feedback to children.
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:
We will discuss each family’s needs with home learning with a telephone
call. Where it is appropriate, we will run one-to-one and small group sessions
for children so we can tailor support to them, whether it be academic or social
and emotional.
Where individual pupils need to self-isolate but the majority of their peer group remains in school, how remote education is provided will likely differ from the approach for whole groups. This is due to the challenges of teaching pupils both at home and in school.
If my child is not in school because they are self-isolating, how will their remote education differ from the approaches described above?
If your child is
self-isolating their remote learning offer will look very similar to the wider
remote learning offer. However, we will look at each case individually and
discuss with parents/carers to create a bespoke response that suits the needs
of the family.
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