Remote education provision: information for parents

This information is intended to provide clarity and transparency to pupils and parents or carers about what to expect from remote education where national or 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 page.

The remote curriculum: what is taught to pupils at home

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.

What should my child expect from immediate remote education in the first day or two of pupils being sent home

In the event of children being sent home from school, children will be sent home with workbooks to complete independently. Work will also be set on our home-school platform – ‘Seesaw’.

Following the first few days of remote education, will my child be taught broadly the same curriculum as they would if they were in school?

We will do our very best to teach the same curriculum remotely as we do in school, wherever possible and appropriate. The core subjects of Maths, English, and Reading will be our priority, however, we may need to make some adaptations in some subjects, for example, Science and Design and Technology.

Remote teaching and study time each day

How long can I expect work set by the school to take my child each day?

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

Key Stage 1 & Key Stage 2:
Work set will vary across Key Stages and year groups. Class teachers will set timings for how long activities should take the children.

Accessing remote education

How will my child access any online remote education you are providing

Our home-school learning platform is ‘Seesaw’. All children have a password for this which would be sent home in order to ensure access to work set, by their class teacher.

If my child does not have digital or online access at home, how will you support them to access remote education?

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 suitable online access at home, school workbooks will be printed and provided for children to work through on paper.

These will then be returned to school for marking.

How will my child be taught remotely?

We use a combination of the following approaches to teach pupils remotely:

• live teaching (online lessons);
• recorded teaching (e.g. Oak National Academy lessons, video/audio recordings made by teachers);
• printed paper packs produced by teachers (e.g. workbooks, worksheets).

Information on how to access all these resources, will be sent to parents and carers.

Engagement and feedback

What are your expectations for my child’s engagement and the support that we as parents and carers should provide at home?

We would like you as parents or carers to actively support school and encourage your child to complete the work set on a daily basis. It may be helpful to set routines which can be followed to ensure learning opportunities are not lost.

How will you check whether my child is engaging with their work and how will I be informed if there are concerns?

We will check your child’s engagement with remote education at least once a week.
If we feel there is a concern over your child’s engagement, the class teacher will contact you via a phone call.

How will you assess my child’s work and progress?

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 feed back to children at least once a week, individually but also at times as a whole class.

Additional support for pupils with particular needs

How will you work with me to help my child who needs additional support from adults at home to access remote education?

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:
Class teachers will work with families to deliver remote education for pupils with SEND on an individual basis.

Remote education for self-isolating pupils

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?

Work will be put on ‘Seesaw’ or in workbooks, mirroring that which is taking place in school each day.
The work will then be marked daily and the child and parent or carer fed back to over the phone.