Home Learning

Throughout the current COVID19 situation our pupils have been set work via their Purple Mash accounts as well as via Google Classrooms. The children also have access to WhiteRose Maths and many other websites that they are used to using to assist their learning. Every child in the school has a workpack that includes a named chromebook and set of headphones that is available for collection on the first day of absence.

Lessons are lived streamed daily starting with a Google Meet session at registration as well as work set remotely. For parents that do not have internet access at home we can supply a sim card that will allow them to access free internet whilst their child is carrying out home learning. These live lessons should ensure that your child is able to work as independantly as they owuld be working if they were in school. We do ask that they wear their headphones so that any external noise does not distract them from their school work.

Please click here for our home learning policy and guidance

Please see the letter re remote learning access to remind you of the different types of learning that is available.

Please see details of our Google Classroom including our daily GoogleMeet live provision as below:

Google Classroom Parent Guide

Creating a Google Meet via Google Classroom

Google Meet protocol

As part of our ongoing provision for children who are continuing their education at home, all worksheets and documents the children need for the following week are available via Purple Mash.  Documents for the following week will be uploaded and available for you from the Thursday evening of the week before during the current 2021 lockdown.  We have added this to support those parents who have shared with us that would like to know in advance what their children are learning – no documents will need to be printed off.  It is not our expectation that work is printed, work can be completed in an exercise book. however if you wish to print work then that is fine  Please contact your child’s teacher via Purple Mash if you require additional exercise books.

To access the documents please read the Purple Mash Guide

Documents have been organised by the day of the week your child will need them. Where possible, answers have been provided.  Please use these with your children to mark their work.

Teachers will continue to set these tasks on a daily basis.  Children do not need to resubmit the documents once they have been completed.

Teachers will continue to provide an overview of the learning which will include hotlinks to websites such as BBCBitesize.  This will be emailed to your child’s Purple Mash account and a copy will be sent via a Groupcall message.  The work set can then be completed in an exercise book or on paper.  Teachers will still set 2dos via Purple Mash which will be monitored and responded to by school staff.

It is essential children spend time each day focused on learning. This will help keep some normality in the children’s routines, ensure their education continues and will ultimately lead to a smoother transition back to school when have completed their isolation and feel well enough to return to school.

There are many other ideas for supporting the learning at home on our Twitter account – you do not need to be a Twitter account holder to read these. We use Twitter as a quick and easy way of passing information on to parents. The internet is also awash with ideas to support parents with home teaching ideas. Included in the pack we send home is a list of websites that offer educational resources. Times Table Rock stars could also be used daily.

Monster Phonics have set up some free webinars for parents of EYFS, Year 1 and Year 2 children– please do book onto them if you are able as they give useful tips and ideas for you.

We appreciate that home working can be difficult, please don’t stress, argue or fall out. Instead when you need a break, cuddle on the sofa and watch a film. Share a book and talk about it. Bake and cook together. Paint pictures (put a rainbow in your window so other children can see them), create
and make. Play board games. Do science experiments. Travel the world via Google Maps. Go on virtual tours of museums, art galleries and zoos (Edinburgh Zoo have live web cams at the moment). Look at old photos and tell stories about family members, some of whom your children
may never have met. Write letters to those you cannot visit at the moment.
Try to have fun spending time together.

Once again, thank you for all you have done so far to help and support your child’s education.  We appreciate all that you are doing at this unusual time.