We recognise that learning from home will present certain challenges, with multiple family members sharing devices and space and parents needing to work and supervise children simultaneously. Having taken this into account, we trust that the programme outlined below will help to overcome some of these challenges and allow for patterns to be established within each home, fitting in with work and family schedules.
Work will be set by teachers each day, but the Online Teaching and Learning Programme is flexible and we understand that there may be times when pupils cannot be online. Please provide us with feedback as we value your comments. Your feedback could be via an e-mail to your child’s form tutor or subject teacher or via one of the questionnaires sent to you from the school.
Our Online Teaching and Learning Programme is designed around the school’s existing curriculum. This is the curriculum that your child would be working to when in school. Of course, we need to make adaptations to take account of delivering via the online platform. Our programme blends a mix of online and offline content and experiences, including:
Synchronous Online Teaching with the whole class
This is when a teacher connects online with a class group. This could be for form time or a specific class. Teachers may arrange this for part of a lesson in order to minimise elongated periods of time on the screen.
Synchronous Online Teaching with a group
This is when a teacher connects online with a smaller group of pupils. This could be for a specific aspect of academic work, e.g. an English teacher working with 4-5 pupils. It could also be for a wellbeing check in when a member of staff checks in with a group to discuss how things are going in this new way of working.
Synchronous one-to-one
There may be instances when 1:1 input is required. This could be, for example, for peripatetic music lessons etc. Individual teachers may also wish to connect with pupils 1:1.
Asynchronous teaching
This is when a teacher pre-prepares teaching input, often by a short video and uploads for pupils to view. This is an effective way of delivering short pieces of teaching content to support learning.
Asynchronous learning tasks
This is when a teacher sets tasks and activities for pupils to complete. These usually follow some teaching input. These tasks may reinforce previous learning or apply new learning.