Remote Learning FAQs for Parents

On the first day of home learning, your child will need to access their Home Learning via their Office 365 account. The log in details have already been emailed home, along with an information letter The academy has a limited number of devices. These will be allocated by academy staff to identified pupils, not on parental request.

Teachers will live stream lessons so that absent pupils have access to the same learning as pupils in school. Live interaction with teachers, where possible and pupil interaction where appropriate for learning. 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.
• P.E. – links to videos tutorials, that can be completed at home, will be provided

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

EYFS - Reception: 3-4 hours

KS1 Year 1 and Year 2: 4-5 hours

KS2 Year 3, 4, 5 and 6: 4-5 hours 

We use Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Teams to support online learning. Your child has their own Office 365 account. Your child has been shown how to use Office 365 and how to access Teams.

You will have received information to help you support your child with this. For pre-recorded work, we use Microsoft Sway and you will receive links to these in the information from school. Links can be found on the academy website.

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

For year 1 -6

• Live teaching (online lessons)
• Pre-recorded lessons using Microsoft Sway
• Links to Oak National Academy lessons where these match what we are teaching in school.
• Printed paper packs produced by teachers (assessed on case by case basis)
• Reading books and reading material accessed online (Accelerated Reader MyOn & Bug Club)
• Websites supporting the teaching of specific subjects or areas, including video clips or sequences

For Reception:

• 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 (at the discretion of the Principal).
• You will be given a time to collect these
• You will be asked to sign for the device 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 might ask your child to send their work back via Office 365, using email or Teams. 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.

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. 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 may invite them to some live teaching for phonics. 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 twice a w