Remote Learning FAQs for Parents

If your child is in Year 1-6 they will receive live streamed lessons for English, Maths, Guided Reading and Topic. They will also receive a minimum of 1-hour of self-directed tasks each day.

If your child is in Reception or Year 1 they will receive short bursts of live learning and asynchronous tasks linked to their learning e.g. phonics.

Your child will receive a letter with their login and an additional letter on how to access Microsoft Teams

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. 
• For PE, activities will be provided

Live streamed lessons run from 9am-2pm. There is also additional 1-hour of work provided each day for children to complete each day. We expect that remote education provision (including remote teaching and independent work) will take pupils broadly the following number of hours each day:

Reception and Year 1 = 3-4 hours

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

We use Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Teams to support online learning.

Your child has their own Office 365 account for emails.

Your child has been shown how to use a Chromebook and how to access Teams.

You will have received information to help you support your child with this.

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For year R - 6

• Live teaching (online lessons)
• Pre-recorded teaching of phonics
• Reading books pupils have at home

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 SIM if needed (if available)
• 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.
• 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. 
• 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 will ask your child to send their work back via the assignments section on Microsoft Teams. 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. For additional information please watch https://youtu.be/s3FmXKPpJnE
• We will sometimes use online quizzes to check if your child has understood what they have been learning.

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.

If your child is not in school because they are self-isolating, we will follow the same approach as above. We will contact you to discuss our child’s learning at least twice a week.