Remote Learning

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.

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.

Immediate remote education is independent online learning. Pupils will have access to school subscriptions that are used to support learning. Teachers will send pupil login and password details home.  

We teach a similar curriculum remotely as we do in school wherever possible and appropriate. However, we have needed to make some adaptations in some subjects. For example, the independent tasks after a teacher input might be different in practical lessons, art, science and design technology.

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

Teams

Variety of subscriptions e.g. LBQ/TTRockstars

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:

• School will lend devices and a dongle, if required, so online learning can be accessed.
• Teachers will monitor the subscription online learning
• Microsoft Teams will be used to set work, give feedback and allow pupil work submission.
• Pupils who do not have online access can have access to printed materials. These can be collected from school or delivered.
• Submission of printed materials can be done through school office or a reasonable adaptation of collection.

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)
• textbooks and reading books pupils have at home
• commercially available websites supporting the teaching of specific subjects or areas, including video clips or sequences
• long-term project work and/or internet research activities