Remote Learning

Welcome to our information page about how our school will deliver remote learning in the event of a bubble/school closure or if an individual child is self-isolating.

Remote Learning - Information for Parents/Carers:

In these uncertain times, we need to be prepared for the possibility of children spending extended periods of time at home. This guide provides further information about how we will deliver our mix of ‘face-to-face’, ‘blended’ and ‘virtual’ learning opportunities, depending upon the situation that we find ourselves in.

Should children need to stay at home, our aim is to provide learning experiences for children that are as closely matched to their classroom experiences as we can possibly give them. The purpose of this guide is to provide you with information about how we aim to do this and what we are asking you as a parent/carer to do alongside us as a school to support your child with learning from home.

Learning Types:

• Face-To-Face Learning: Simply put, this is the learning that takes place in the classroom.
• Blended Learning: This is online learning that is a combination of pre-recorded lessons by our teachers (the closest we can achieve to face-to-face learning) with accompanying activities that mirror those which are taking place or would have taken place in the classroom coupled with independent virtual learning opportunities.
• Virtual Learning: This is online learning that children have access to at home at any time which doesn’t necessarily require a teacher input and can be completed at the learner’s own pace (Bug Club, Times Tables Rock Stars, Espresso and activities on J2E).

Children in School:

• Children in school will continue to receive face-to-face learning.
• Children in school also have access to virtual learning resources (such as Bug Club, Times Tables Rock Stars, J2E etc.) at home. We recommend visiting these sites at home regularly to help your child with key skills in areas such as reading, spelling and maths. 

 

Individual Children Learning from Home:

If your child needs to self-isolate but the rest of their class are still in school, you will be able to access virtual learning (Bug Club, Times Tables Rock Stars etc.) and your child’s class teacher will see what you have done. In addition, activities and learning that are taking place within the classroom will also be available in their online format using Just 2 Easy. These will be shared with your child’s account and feedback will be given by your child’s class teacher on a daily basis.

Microsoft Teams

We use Microsoft Teams on a daily basis to:

• Hold morning 'assemblies' in each year group.
• Hold end of day 'Story Times' in each year group.

Live assembly and story times have staggered start times to make it as easy as possible for children with siblings in school to attend the live sessions. Both of your child's year group teachers will attend these live sessions. The teacher responsible for home learning for your child's year group will lead the session and the teacher working in the classroom will log into the session to allow children in the classroom to be part of the assembly and story time too. 

 

Just 2 Easy

Alongside Teams, we have chosen to use Just 2 Easy (J2E).

 

• All activities can be completed using J2E without the need to print anything out.
• If an activity requires children to write by hand or be completed ‘offline’, a photograph of the completed activity can be uploaded to their files on J2E. This can be marked in the same way as their other learning activities. With activities such as these, there really is no need to print anything out!

 

Access to Devices:

 

Keeping Safe Online:

We are fully committed to keeping your child stay safe online in and out of school. Whenever your child is completing online learning, whether that is after school or because of the need for children to stay at home, it is important that school and parents/carers work together to continue to keep children safe online. For this reason, we are asking that:

• parents/Carers supervise their children while accessing home learning – As we are using online platforms, we need to be paying attention to the content that our children are accessing and creating as well as the contact that they are making and receiving.
• while we have disabled the ability for children to use their cameras/microphones during Teams assemblies with their teacher, parents/carers continue to monitor their child to ensure that these remain switched off.
• parents/carers supervise their child during Teams meetings to enable them to talk to their class teacher.
• parents/carers monitor the work that their child completes to ensure that the content is appropriate.

 

 

 

Learning From Home Links

If your child is learning from home, please follow the following links to access both of our chosen platforms (Microsoft Teams and Just 2 Easy):

Microsoft Teams: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/log-in 

Just 2 Easy: http://www.j2e.com

This is where children can complete the activities that class teachers are setting for them. All activities can be completed on here. Once an activity is complete, press the 'save' icon and your child's class teacher will immediately be able to see their completed work.