A pupil’s first day or two 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

Students will be provided with appropriate work for each lesson. This can be accessed via Teams. Students are part of a class teams group from the start of the academic year and should make themselves familiar with the location of resources.

Apart from any staff absences student should be able to access remote lessons via teams.

We teach the same curriculum remotely as we do in school wherever possible and appropriate. However, we have needed to make some adaptations in some subjects. For example, Sciences, Physical education, Technology and any other subjects that require equipment not available to students at home.

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

Students will access all live lessons and online resources primarily through Microsoft Teams. Students may be directed to the use of additional platforms to support independent work for example:- Kerboodle, Dr Frost, GCSE Pod etc. Teachers will give further information to students were relevant.

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.

If your child requires support accessing the curriculum due to lack of equipment including laptop or WI-FI please contact the welfare team welfare@bluecoatschool.org.uk.

We use a combination of the following approaches to teach pupils remotely. Some examples of remote teaching approaches:

• live teaching (online lessons)
• recorded teaching (e.g. GCSE Pod, video/audio recordings made by teachers)
• printed paper packs produced by teachers (e.g. workbooks, worksheets)
• textbooks and reading books pupils have at home
• commercially available websites supporting the teaching of specific subjects or areas, including video clips or sequences
• long-term project work and/or internet research activities (as per the schools full opening guidance, schools full opening guidance, schools are expected to avoid an over-reliance on these approaches)

• The expectation is that students will attend and participate fully with all online lessons and activities.
• Students and parents are expected to inform the school/teacher of any absences as per school attendance policy.
• Students are expected to have camera’s and microphone on and available when requested by teachers.
• Parents are expected to support teaching by ensuring that students have a suitable work area available at home.

• Teachers will take a register at the start of each lesson.
• Teachers will communicate with students that have not attended lessons to ascertain why they are absent and support them with work missed.
• The pastoral team will communicate with parents about any ongoing absences or failure to engage with lessons

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:

• Students and parents will continue to receive regular progess reports unless this is not possible for any reason.

We recognise that some pupils, for example some pupils 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 pupils in the following ways:

• The SENCo will regularly communicate with students and parents to ensure all specific needs are met.
• If students require additional support or parents have any concerns please contact the SENCo via the welfare email. welfare@bluecoatschool.org.uk