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Our Remote Learning

With the announcement of the national lockdown on January 5th, all schools were instructed to close for all pupils (except children of critical workers and vulnerable children) and move to remote learning.
With that, we put in place our revised provision for remote learning during this time.
Daily Learning
- Every day, our class teachers host a Microsoft Teams meeting for everyone in their class to join. This is an opportunity for the teachers to talk through the planned learning that day or reflect on previous learning.
It is an opportunity to for children to share work they are particularly proud of and ask any questions they might have about the learning tasks ahead. The daily teams meeting often includes the class teacher reading a story book/chapter for the children to enjoy as a class and is a chance for the children to catch up with their class mates.


- Our class teachers produce a daily guide for every child to follow at home to support their learning. These include instructions to a range of activities linked to the child's national curriculum objectives and links to the videos made by their class teacher. This is shared via the class blog on purple mash and is also emailed out to all families by 5pm the day before.
Our teachers produce 2-3 recorded lessons every day for the children to watch, follow and engage with. This will always include an English and Maths session.
These sessions are pre-recorded, so that children can watch (and re-watch if necessary) at a time that is most suitable for their own home learning situation.
Additionally, our teachers set a number of activities and tasks for the children to engage with on Purple Mash, linked to the NC objectives.
The balance between live and pre-recorded content
There are a number of articles in the media about whether schools are choosing to use 'live' or pre-recorded content. If you have a child at secondary school the chances are they are running more 'live' teaching sessions which are generally appropriate to the age and stage of the pupils being taught. Like most primary schools, when planning our offer we have chosen to use pre-recorded lessons for the following reasons:
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They allow the content to be paused and re-played which is often useful with primary age children
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Families can choose to work through the content at their own pace and in an order of their choosing (to fit in with children’s mood and preferences)
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They allow flexibility for families where there is more than one child in a household needing to share a device
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Where internet connectivity is intermittent due to faults or demands on the system, learning is not interrupted
