Feedback from Parental Questionnaire regarding Remote Learning

Please find the results below: 

• Archiving work from the previous week, so it is not over-facing for children and parents at the start of the following week 
• Sharing and signposting parents to the expected standard of work and mathematical calculations 
• Timetable and resources available on a shared google drive for parents to access by the Sunday before the next week should they want to 
• Where possible, there will be more teacher videos and / or voiceover of slide shows.  

  SUGGESTION	SCHOOL RESPONSE
  Just started cursive writing and some videos of the method would be useful like there are for individual letters. Aware this is new to Reception so realise there probably hasn't been time to do this.	The reception team are planning on creating a demonstration video that guides parents through some of the digraphs in a step-by-step way, which can then be applied more widely.
  It could be useful to have an idea of the types of activities the day before, or even at the end of the week before, if it involves anything in particular that is different to the usual things we have at home.	We understand how difficult and frustrating this can be.  We therefore plan to have the timetable for the week, as well as any associated paper resources uploaded before the new week starts onto a google sharing platform.
  Less screen time activities	We are starting to think about how screen time can be reduced particularly in some of the foundation subjects
  Whilst the White Rose Maths videos/activities appear to be very thorough, they feel a little repetitive.	We follow White Rose planning cycle in school. Therefore, the continuation of learning between school and home are upheld.   they also follow the fluency, reasoning and problem-solving approach that is so vital to the teaching of maths. They can be repetitive, but the flip side is that the children get to practise and consolidate the methods taught.  There is also the option of the extension questions that allow them to apply the methods taught in different contexts.
  Sound quality on teacher recording is sometimes poor and skipping.	Sorry for this.  Some of our teachers have been suffering with poor internet connection both at school and at home.
  Live lessons	As a school, we made the decision quite early on as to why we felt live lessons were not the home learning route we wanted to go down.  These are the reasons why we made the decision against live lessons:  Most of our parents work and cannot have their children tune in on demand  In a large family, with several children, it puts extra pressure on families to be online at set times, especially if they only have a few devices  Pre-recorded videos and sessions, allow parents and children to re watch for clarity  There are GDPR and safeguarding issues regarding live lessons that parents may not be aware of
  Clearing the outstanding tasks each week, it is a little stressful seeing so many incomplete tasks!	We plan to archive frequently, older activities to ensure that inboxes are not flooded with incomplete tasks!
  We were unprepared for the quantity and quality of technology required to meet the requirements needed to access the work on seesaw, however I appreciate that is out of the school's control.	If anyone is struggling with this, please do get in contact with the school as we will happily loan you a device.  This is especially the case if you have more than one child in your family and only one device too.
  It would help if there were more guidance for parents how the schools teach/ where the teaching leads to. As an example, the kids learn the "bus stop" method for multiplication at the moment. What are the next steps? I struggle to guide the children into the right direction without knowing where to head.	Please check out the Maths and English pages as the progression of skills is laid out here.   You will also find the Maths calculation policy here, which shows the different methods that are taught in which year group linked to the 4 operations.
  The school leadership seem to have decided to do the bare minimum with regard to pupil contact at home and have no regard for parents' circumstances in arranging zoom calls.	As a school, we believe the amount of contact that children have had both with their teachers and members of their class is significantly more than last lockdown and therefore an improvement overall and addresses concerns that were raised in the previous lockdown.    Unfortunately, there is no way of knowing individual parents work commitments/ circumstances and therefore have to schedule zoom calls at times when it fits into the school day as well as having additional adult support in the classroom too.  Most teachers have tried to keep their zoom slot to the same time every week, so that parents can plan their working week.
  Assemblies for all years not appropriate content children at different ages, older children need different interaction than younger and hence a 1 stop shop seems pointless at times.	We thought long and hard over how to manage our assemblies.  In school, we have both whole school assemblies and key stage assemblies and are adept at pitching different elements of the assemblies to the different age groups.  We made the decision to carry them out via surname and as a whole school, as this then helps parents who are working at home only to have to sit through one assembly rather than several – if they have multiple children in different year groups.
  Getting back to school asap	We want this too!!