Brontë Academy Trust Remote Learning Offer 

This information is intended to provide clarity and transparency to pupils and parents or carers about what to expect from remote education where national or local restrictions require children to remain at home.

With a combination of daily live lessons and independent work, we feel we are providing a flexible approach to home-learning that enables all of our children to maintain contact with their peers and teachers, and to continue following our enriched curriculum as closely as possible.

The remote curriculum: what is taught to pupils at home

A pupil’s days of being educated remotely might look different from our standard approach, while we take all necessary actions to prepare for a longer period of remote teaching. 

What should my child expect from immediate remote education in the first day or two of pupils being sent home?

Children will have received a work pack from their teacher which contains a range of core and foundation subject tasks. This should be sufficient to last for 1-2 days whilst the school prepares for online learning. Children can also complete other tasks such as maths, reading and spelling. Children will also be provided with an exercise book in which to complete work.

For remote education, will my child be taught broadly the same curriculum as they would if they were in school?

We will teach the same curriculum remotely as we do in school, to ensure our children do not miss out on key learning and can transition back into school smoothly when necessary. In some cases, we will have adapted work to make it more suitable to be completed at home, but it will still reflect our broader curriculum aims and objectives.

Remote teaching and study time each day

Children in all year groups will follow scheduled lessons. All live lessons will be delivered by a class teacher using Google Classroom.

Some children will receive live intervention sessions for reading, writing and maths throughout the week delivered by the teacher or teaching assistant. Each class will receive a weekly timetable of work. 

How will my child access any online remote education you are providing?

We are using Google Classroom to deliver all of our live lessons and to upload work documents for all subjects. All children have an individual login and have been shown how to use the system. 

If my child does not have digital or online access at home, how will you support them to access remote education?

We recognise that some pupils may not have suitable online access at home. We take the following approaches to support those pupils to access remote education:

• Parents can request equipment from school in order to access online lessons.
• Parents can contact the school office if they require additional equipment or support.

All online work will be designed to be accessed without the need for printing and can be completed in the exercise books provided by school.

What are your expectations for my child’s engagement and the support that we as parents and carers should provide at home?

We ask that all children will have an adult nearby for assistance when using Google Classroom (younger children will need more help to navigate the system) and that children have a plain background and are muted during sessions unless the teacher is in discussion with them. Please refer to our Child protection and Safeguarding policy on our school website for more information.

If you do not have enough devices for your children to access live lessons at the same time, we recommend you create a timetable at home so your children get a mix of live and recorded sessions. Parents must notify the class teacher in advance if they require a recording of a lesson.

Teachers will not have the capacity to give detailed feedback on every piece of work submitted – rather they will give feedback to specific children who may need further support.

How will you assess my child’s work and progress?

Feedback can take many forms and may not always mean extensive written comments for individual children. Our approach to feeding back on pupil work is as follows:

Parents can be assured that teachers will look at every piece of work that is submitted through Google Classroom or emailed to them. Where necessary, they will provide individual feedback to a child with suggestions for improving the work, or they may just acknowledge receipt of it. Teachers might give general feedback to the class in the next live session and/or adapt their lessons to pick up on common misconceptions

Additional support for pupils with particular needs

We recognise that some pupils, for example some pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), may need additional support which we will provide in the following ways:

Depending upon teacher and teaching assistant availability, children will receive small group or one to one intervention sessions to work on specified areas of need. t.

Teaching assistants may also join live lessons to provide support.