Remote Learning FAQs for Parents

If your child is in KS2 you would have already received a Chromebook for their learning. Your child will receive three lessons a day. These lessons will be 30 minutes long(min) and will be direct modelling to support the independent work that your child will be set safely through TEAMS classroom.

Everyday your child will receive a Maths and English Lesson.

Each week there will be two humanities lessons, a science lesson and 2 further wider curriculum lessons that were due to be taught this term.

In KS1 and Reception you will receive three lessons a day. One of these will be phonics.

Reception will use Tapestry to also send further work home.

Year 1 and 2 will use a SWAY for independent work and links to learning.

Your child will be sent weekly PE challenges to ensure they are still being active for their wellbeing. You will receive information about how to log on to the lessons through an email.

You will receive a phone call if your child is absent on the remote lesson. You will receive a personal wellbeing call from your teacher once a week. If you have any difficulties with connectivity then please call the school for support.

Yes your child will be taught the curriculum as best fit that they would have experienced this term. 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

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 and Year 2 = 3 hours

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

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

All KS2 children have a TEAMS account:

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.

KS1 use Microsoft Office Teams

For pre-recorded work, we use Microsoft Sway and you will receive links to these in the information from school. EYFS will use Tapestry for work and challenges.

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For year 1 -6

• Live teaching (online lessons)
• Pre-recorded lessons using Microsoft Sway
• 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: (Teams and Tapestry)

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

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.

• 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.
• 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 teacher will call you to discuss this. They will talk to you about how you can help.If necessary, your child will be invited in for learning in school.

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 tutorial 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 Nursery and 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. We will contact you to discuss our child’s learning at least once a week.