For immediate learning there will be a separate pack emailed to families to support home learning for the first 48 hours. This includes English and Maths skills activities linked to the curriculum content for this term, plus additional enquiry challenges. Pupils also have access to Bug Club for reading and Times Tables Rockstars and Sumdog for Maths

We teach the same curriculum remotely as we do in school wherever possible and appropriate. However, we have needed to make some adaptations in some subjects. For example, if a focus for the term is using semi colons in their writing, pupils might be sent a skills-based activity on semi colons. If there is practical science activity that we know pupils would not have the resources to access at home, a link to a video lesson from Oak Academy or BBC Bitesize might be sent for them to access. There may be a 24 hour delay in the lessons sent home where resources match the school learning – this will then be addressed when pupils return back to school.

Class Dojo

Microsoft Teams

Times Tables Rockstars, Sumdog and Bug Club

Printed material available at reception every Monday for families to collect for the week. This is also posted to identified families where the distance to school means that this would be a barrier for them.

DFE laptop allocation has been loaned to 10 children so far and a waiting list for laptops has been collated. 15 further school laptops are in the process of being converted to be loaned to families, and additional 13 have been sourced through a charity and our Friends of Dolphin parent group are fund raising and collecting laptops. Families know to contact school if they are struggling to access work and weekly phone calls made by teaching staff, along with an online register for live lessons means we are identifying accurately the pupils that are needing support.

We have supported families to increase their data allowance through the mobile providers that have offered to do this. We have promoted this through email and Class Dojo and targeted family support. We are investigating getting further Dongles to support families through the DFE allocation.

If families are not able to submit their work online, they can send their work back into school for teachers to look at or the teachers will discuss this work and give feedback over the phone. We provide answer sheets with the printed materials so that children and families can check their work also.

• live teaching (online lessons)
• recorded teaching (recordings made by teachers)
• printed paper packs produced by teachers (e.g. workbooks, worksheets)
• reading books pupils have at home
• commercially available websites supporting the teaching of specific subjects or areas, including video clips or sequences

We expect that pupils engage as much as they can with school learning during the closure. Our aim is to get as many children as possible to access live teaching and to be submitting their work on Class Dojo. If pupils are not able to access their learning online, we would expect children to be engaging in the paper based learning at home and this is discussed at the weekly phone call by the teaching staff. Where we are concerned that work is not being completed, we will work with the family to overcome barriers.

• A regular timetable of live lessons, assemblies and virtual lunchtimes provides structure to the virtual school day.

• All work submitted will be approved by the teaching staff and acknowledged (liked on Class Dojo) and/or short feedback given by the teaching staff.
• If we are concerned about the lack of work or the quality of work/engagement in the learning, then a member of the teaching staff would talk to the family and the child about how we could work together to address this.

• All work submitted will be approved by the teaching staff and acknowledged (liked on Class Dojo) and/or short feedback given by the teaching staff.
• Pupils also have access to answer sheets (where appropriate) to self-mark work and this is an approach that pupils are used to in school.

Bespoke work is set for SEND pupils that are not working at ARE. This might be by providing different links to videos from different year groups to ensure that they are accessing the right level of teaching for their stage.

Pupils with SEND may get sent additional  resources that would support them working at home – e.g. sensory resources.

All pupils with EHCPs are strong encouraged to be in school.

SALT virtual teaching continues for pupils identified.

Teaching staff call families on a weekly basis and will talk to SENCo if there are concerns about SEND pupils not being supported at home and arrange further support.

Families can contact SENDCo or class teacher if they have concerns. 

Maths lessons: emailed to families/posted dependent on access following on/mirroring the maths being covered in the classroom at that time. This may be a combination of white rose maths videos (the scheme used in school), the screens shared in the classroom and resources/worksheets used in the classroom (can be delivered up to 24hours after was covered in class)

English tasks for KS2: emailed to families/posted dependent on access following either the sequence of learning happening in the classroom or basic skills relevant to that year group (e.g. spag). The quantity will be dependent on age/stage of your child. Some of these will need to be uploaded to your child’s class teacher on ClassDojo for feedback.

Phonics sessions for KS1: there will be booklets sent home to consolidate the sounds known and a separate booklet for the sounds they are learning accompanied with link to videos to Mr Thorne on Youtube and/or put on Class Dojo.

Enquiry Lessons(s): following the lessons being covered in class that week. This may be the screens from the lesson being sent to families along with resources / worksheets (if appropriate i.e. if the resources required for the lessons are already at home). If the lessons being taught in class are not able to be delivered remotely (e.g. if it requires additional resources such as art resources e.g. clay or pastels, or geography resources e.g maps and atlases) then alternative ‘topic’ learning will be set on ClassDojo which may make use of the Government’s ‘Oak Academy’ lessons.

For immediate learning there will be a separate pack emailed to families to support home learning for the first 48 hours.