This information is intended to provide clarity and transparency to pupils and parents or carers about what to expect from remote education if local or national restrictions require entire cohorts (or bubbles) to remain at home. This approach may also be used for children not attending school for medical reasons.
For details of what to expect where individual pupils are self-isolating, please see the final section of this page.
It is our expectation that children will continue regular reading at home. a. Children in our EYFS, Years 1 and 2 classes can use https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ (this links to ELS phonics) to support reading at home along with the 2 books issued from school as part of our reading routine. b. Children from Y3 upwards will be able to access Accelerated Reader during the school day to complete quizzes and comprehensions.
All children will have the relevant (age or needs appropriate) access to Espresso, ELS resources, Mathletics and TT Rockstars to work on basic English and Maths skills. Daily lessons for Maths and English can be found on https://www.thenational.academy/ Lessons for other subjects, for each year group, are also available for children to follow. Class pages on the school website have further information about the curriculum being taught and resources to support learning at home including links to the above online resources. EYFS parents will have access to ‘Evidence Me’ for learning ideas and to upload any home learning. |
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.
Following the first few days of remote education, will my child be taught broadly the same curriculum as they would if they were in school?
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 where more specialized teaching, apparatus or equipment is required. For example,
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We expect that remote education (including remote teaching and independent work) will take pupils broadly the following number of hours each day:
EYFS | 2-3 hours of suggested activities depending on age |
KS 1 | 3 hours (on average per day) |
KS 2 | 4 hours (on average per day) |
The school’s website has pre-links to online platforms the school subscribes to and links approved by the DfE to support learning from home. This can be found on your child’s class page. https://www.chambersbury.herts.sch.uk/class-pages/
Support to access Google Classroom and Evidence me can be found on the school’s website. https://www.chambersbury.herts.sch.uk/home-learning-activities/
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Online learning platform | Nur | Rec | Yr 1 | Yr 2 | Yr 3 | Yr 4 | Yr 5 | Yr 6 |
Evidence Me | X | X |
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Espresso - good for all subjects and ages | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Mathletics |
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Google Classroom |
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TT Rockstars |
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Hour of Code - computing |
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Accelerated Reading |
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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:
Lending Laptops The school can laptops pupils subject to availability. Please contact the school if you would like a laptop loan. Parents must be aware that they take full responsibility for the laptop and understand the laptop has filtering software to ensure their child's safety. Parents must have filtering options on their internet connection to be eligible.
Paper Packs or Printing Support If a child has difficulty accessing technology for learning or accessing their class’s learning, a home learning pack will be provided on request. This would be collected from school on Mondays and Wednesday or delivered to the main address the school has on file. This work can be handed back into school and will be seen by a member of staff.
The school website will continue to share links to the online services for those families who are online but are unable to access Google Classrooms or Evidence Me.
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We use a combination of the following approaches to teach pupils remotely:
Some examples of remote teaching approaches used at Chambersbury:
Suggested timetables with planning for each year group will be provided to support your child when learning at home. The purpose of this is to support you with home learning during extended periods at home and meet the Government requirement of providing up to 3-4 hours of education daily. This includes reading, face to face time, planned activities, physical fitness and use of online resources. Structure and routine is good at this time as it makes children feel safe and it is familiar to them however short sessions are better for learning. Children would not sit for hours at school without breaks, games or practical activities.
The planning timetables and links to our online subscriptions can be found on your child’s own class page.
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Roles and Responsibilities (Children) Maintain your excellent progress at school by:
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Roles and Responsibilities (Parents)
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Chambersbury recognizes the need to promote engagement of learning at home and to ensure the school has ‘eyes’ on children to meet safeguarding requirements. Therefore, the school will log participation on live lessons and through work returned to school either through online or paper. The school will feedback to parents by telephone to explore ways to re-engage and support learning from home after 2 or 3 days of no contact. Feedback will be used to engage children along with the continuation of the House Point system with certificates being announced weekly. |
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:
Teachers will provide feedback to pupils on the outcome of learning activities/subject by acknowledging work which has been submitted within the deadlines set. This will be daily in most cases depending on the task or the age of the child. EYFS will use Evidence Me to communicate comments directly to parents and email progress as usually half termly.
Feedback could be provided in a variety of ways:
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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 is responsible for coordinating provision for pupils with SEND across the school as set out within the schools Special Educational Needs Policy. The SENCO will continue to:
Teachers will set out challenges (where appropriate) in order to differentiated learning and engage all learners at home. It is important to be mindful of your child's workload and consider that they may not be able to access all the lesson content in any given day. Pupils may be offered a place in school so they can be supported with their learning by school staff during periods of school closure. In school, pupils will have access to the following interventions linked to their individualised learning plan – maths, English, phonics, social skills, fine and gross motor, speech and language.
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Where individual pupils need to self-isolate but the majority of their peer group remains in school, how remote education is provided will likely differ from the approach for whole groups. This is due to the challenges of teaching pupils both at home and in school.
Individual children from classes It is our expectation that children will continue regular reading at home. a. Children in our EYFS, Years 1 and 2 classes can use https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/ (links to ELS phonics) to support reading at home along with the 2 books issued from school as part of our new routine. b. Children from Y3 upwards will be able to access Accelerated Reader during the school day to complete quizzes and comprehensions. Access to Espresso, Mathletics and TT Rockstars to work on basic English and Maths skills. Class pages on the school website have a ‘Home Learning’ page with resources to support learning at home. Daily lessons can be found on www.thenational.academy
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Whole class sent home to isolate and teacher is unwell It is our expectation that children will continue regular reading at home. Continue regular reading at home – as before. Access to Espresso, Mathletics and TT Rockstars to work on basic English and Maths skills. Daily lessons for Maths and English can be found on www.thenational.academy Lessons for other subjects, for each year group, are also available for children to follow. Class pages on the school website have a ‘Home Learning’ page with resources to support learning at home. A member of staff will ‘touch’ base (if possible daily) with the class to support their well-being and their learning. EYFS parents will have access to ‘Evidence Me’ for learning ideas and to upload any home learning. |