Lessons are always shared via Teams in each class. A calendar invite will be sent out by your child’s teacher inviting them to join the lesson. This will go to their school email. A follow up link is also added to the OneNote pages to facilitate access to a recording later.

Your child has usernames and passwords for Office365 and the various online learning resources that we use. Do let us know if you do not have the password information sheets which we provided you when they started school, for your child to access the home learning activities. You can also refer to our IT Helpguides, which are available at HTML or as PDF for download.

Hopefully this iwill not be needed again, but we are ready. We have put measures in place to enable us to still deliver education to pupils whilst they are at home. Teachers are able to deliver lessons virtually through Microsoft Teams video calls and assign work in Teams, with the activities and resources being accessed through the class OneNote. The resources in OneNote link to the online activities through programmes such as Purple Mash, Accelerated Maths and Literacy Planet, to name a few. Where activities are completed on paper children should have their exercise books and pens from school. Lessons delivered during a period of closure can be accessed either live, or later via a recording, as we recognise that siblings may find it difficult to access live lessons at the same time. We have designed a good mixture of input and individual work to fill each school day. Our expectation is that children will engage with the school work from home. We will still register those who log into the lessons from home, support them virtually in achieving the work and will mark and feedback to children on the work that they have submitted through Microsoft Teams assignments.

We have confirmed that our insurers are happy for pupils to borrow a school device to enable them to access online lessons. We would rather not have to manage the loan of equipment where your children can access their work from your home devices. Please be aware that any damage to the device carries an excess of £250, so children will need to be extremely careful and keep the device safe. You will need to sign for the device and commit to pay this excess if the device is broken whilst in your care.

We understand that this can be an issue for some people, particularly in more rural areas sometimes. Pupils will be able to access the lessons via a 4G signal on a phone if that is possible in your area and with your phone contract.