Remote Learning FAQs for Parents

On the first day of home learning, your teacher will be in touch to agree plans to gain access to the live Microsoft Teams platform asap. In the case of any technical issues or difficulties, they will provide alternative work by email or organise printed packs to be sent home short term while these issues are resolved..

This will include work to complete for maths and English plus links to online resources for the wider curriculum. The vast majority of children should be able to engage with live teaching from their first day of absence.

We teach the same curriculum remotely as we do in school wherever possible and appropriate. However, we have needed to make the following adaptations:

• For art and design technology, we have made adaptations to the practical parts to make sure that children can complete tasks using what they have at home.
• For science, we have adapted some of the practical work for the same reasons as in art and design technology.
• During PPA afternoons (MFL, PE & Music) children may be provided with project work or activities to complete at home.

We expect that remote education provision (including remote teaching and independent work) will take pupils broadly the following number of hours each day:

Nursery, Reception & Year 1 = Up to 3 hours

Year 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 = 3-6 hours

We use Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Teams to support online learning. Your child has their own Office 365 account for emails.

Learning from Home Resources

Your child has been shown how to use a Chromebook (if loaned) and how to access Teams.

You will have received information to help you support your child with this. If you have any questions then please call our office and they will signpost you to additional support - 01202 727910.

We use a combination of the following approaches to deliver remote education:

For year 1 -6

• Live teaching (online lessons)
• Pre-recorded lessons using PowerPoint
• Links to Oak National Academy lessons where these match what we are teaching in school.
• Printed paper packs produced by teachers (e.g. workbooks, worksheets)
• Reading books pupils have at home
• Commercially available websites supporting the teaching of specific subjects or areas, including video clips or sequences

For Nursery and Reception:

• Live teaching of phonics and small group work
• Information for parents to support learning at home, including information on PowerPoints.

We recognise that some pupils may not have suitable online access at home. We take the following approaches to support those pupils to access remote education:

• If your child does not have access to appropriate technology, they will be offered a Chromebook and 4G data dongle if needed.
• You will be given a time to collect these, or arrangements will be made for delivery to the home.
• You will be asked to sign for delivery and will have the opportunity to ask for support in setting this up.
• In the extremely rare occasion where access to technology is still not possible, you will be invited to collect and return paper packs to school. This is only offered as a last resort.

• Your child is expected to complete the work set.
• Where your child is invited to a live lesson, they are expected to attend. Where they do not attend, we will make a phone call to you to ensure that this happens. Absence will be logged as unauthorised.
• We expect parents to support their child’s learning, including ensuring that they are available and online for any live teaching.
• You will receive information about what we expect during live teaching. Please ensure that your child follows these expectations.

• There will be daily live teaching sessions which will allow teachers to check on your how well your child is doing. • We will offer smaller group sessions to support some pupils.
• If your child is not online when we expect them to be, we will make a phone call home to check.
• If your child is not completing and submitting work, your child’s classteacher will call you to discuss this. They will talk to you about how you can help.

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:

• We might ask your child to send their work back via email. This might be through their email account or yours. A photograph works well for this, but your child’s teacher will let you know what we need.
• We will sometimes use online quizzes to check if your child has understood what they have been learning.
• Your child will have at least two opportunities during the week to speak to their teacher about their work. This might be during a live streamed lesson, or it might be in a small group intervention time.

We recognise that some pupils, for example some pupils with SEND, may not be able to access remote education without support from adults at home. We will work with parents and carers to support those pupils in the following ways:

• If your child has special educational needs and/ or disabilities, we will speak to you directly about their support. They will continue to be supported by the adults who work with them in school through live teaching or additional recorded information. This work will match what they would access in school as far as is practicable. There might be some circumstances where this is not possible, but we will speak to you directly about this.
• For younger children in Reception, we will invite them to some live teaching in small groups for phonics and small group work. We will help you to get them online for this. We will also send information about activities you can do at home to support your child. This will include some pre-recorded lessons and stories.

If your child is not in school because they are self-isolating, we will follow the same approach as above.