We expect that remote education (including remote teaching and independent work) will take students broadly the following number of hours each day: 

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

Microsoft Teams accessed through https://office.com.

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

• If you are in need of a laptop to enable access to remote learning, this is usually communicated through your child's Head of Year.
• You may find yourself in need of an extra device if there are multiple students at home at the same time, again this should be communicated through your child's Head of Year.
• Students can submit work either when they return to school, via Teams, via our VLE Moodle, or via email to their subject teacher.

We use a combination of the following approaches to teach students remotely:

All subjects use live teaching via Microsoft Teams.

A few subjects will use recorded teaching sessions either made by the teachers in school or via the Oak National Academy.

A few subjects such as Maths will use commercially available websites and programmes to support live lessons.

Students are expected to fully engage with remote learning.

Parents should inform the school about absence in the usual way by email or by calling 0117 3532069 by 8:30am.

Feedback can take many forms and may not always mean extensive written comments for individual children. For example, whole-class feedback or quizzes marked automatically via digital platforms are also valid and effective methods, amongst many others. Our approach to feeding back on pupil work is as follows:

• Work can be submitted via Teams or our VLE Moodle for marking. Some subjects will also ask for submission via email.
• Feedback will either be through the chosen digital platform or written and shared on return to school or via email.
• Verbal, formative feedback in lessons.

How will you work with me to help my child who needs additional support from adults at home to access remote education?

We recognise that some students, for example some students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), may not be able to access remote education without support from adults at home. We acknowledge the difficulties this may place on families, and we will work with parents and carers to support those students in the following ways:

Students who have Educational Health Care Plans will continue to be supported remotely by a range of strategies depending upon their level  of need. This may include:

• Key worker/Learning Support Assistant joining the remote lesson being delivered by the teacher and using the private chat function to support learning.
• Individual/small group teams lesson delivered by the Keyworker/Learning Support Assistant.
• Differentiated activities either remotely or printed copies sent home.