Remote and Blended Learning

A quick guide through Seesaw

Live Zoom/Lesson Agreements

Blended Remote Home Learning Policy

In the event we have to move to remote learning for individual pupils, class/bubbles or a whole school closure, we will use Seesaw for remote learning. Your child’s teacher will use Seesaw to share learning activities and resources that your child can complete while at home. An exercise book will also be provided for children to complete these activities in if they wish.

We recently sent a survey out to parents and children to enquire as to whether some children would not have access to computer resources and would therefore not be using seesaw, thank you to everyone who completed the survey. From that, we have identified children who will need learning books to work from at home rather than using Seesaw - these have been bought and will come home with your child.

Please refer to the letters and information sheets attached above for further details regarding the use of Seesaw.

For maths, we will use White Rose Maths Materials and resources as this is the scheme that we already use within school to complement our own maths teaching. Further details of this scheme of work can be found at: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/

Children are also encouraged to use Times Tables Rock Stars and Mathletics to supplement their maths learning.

For English and foundation curriculum subjects, we may complement our own resources with those from Oak National Academy. Oak’s online classroom has 10,000 video lessons created by teachers which are available for free on: https://www.thenational.academy/ Oak is backed by the Department for Education (DfE) and, last term, provided nearly 5 million pupils with 20 million lessons.

Some frequently asked question about Oak National Academy can be found at: https://support.thenational.academy/en/

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Online Safety

When we are at home working online it is important to stay safe. The Department for Education has compiled the following useful list for parents:

Internet matters - for support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online
London Grid for Learning - for support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online
Net-aware - for support for parents and careers from the NSPCC
Parent info - for support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online
Thinkuknow - for advice from the National Crime Agency to stay safe online
UK Safer Internet Centre - advice for parents and carers

Here is a non-exhaustive list of FREE online education resources that you may wish to use with your child during school closures due to Coronavirus. This has been kindly complied by home educators.

Khan Academy

https://www.khanacademy.org

Especially good for maths and computing for all ages but other subjects at Secondary level. Note this uses the U.S. grade system but it's mostly common material.

BBC Learning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/coursesearch/

This site is old and no longer updated and yet there's so much still available, from language learning to BBC Bitesize for revision. No TV licence required except for content on BBC iPlayer.

Futurelearn

https://www.futurelearn.com

Free to access 100s of courses, only pay to upgrade if you need a certificate in your name (own account from age 14+ but younger learners can use a parent account).

Seneca

https://www.senecalearning.com

For those revising at GCSE or A level. Tons of free revision content. Paid access to higher level material.

Openlearn

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/

Free taster courses aimed at those considering Open University but everyone can access it. Adult level, but some e.g. nature and environment courses could well be of interest to young people.

Blockly

https://blockly.games

Learn computer programming skills - fun and free.

Scratch

https://scratch.mit.edu/explore/projects/games/

Creative computer programming

Ted Ed

https://ed.ted.com

All sorts of engaging educational videos

National Geographic Kids

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/

Activities and quizzes for younger kids.