Remote Learning
We were delighted to gain the ODBST Gold Standard for Home learning. Here are some comments from the adviser’s report.
“Parents were overflowing in their praise for the staff and how they organised and managed the whole process for them and their children.”
“The curriculum delivered during lockdown remained creative and interesting. Pupils explained that their teachers had helped them learn by calling every day, doing literacy lessons together and talking to them via Teams. “
This comment from a parent encapsulates the success: ‘I wanted to write and tell you how wonderful the lesson was this morning. To see the children so engaged and enjoying participating remotely really made my day.’ “
Now that schools are open fully, remote education is not viewed as an equal alternative to attendance in school. We will only consider it only as a last resort when the alternative would be no education, and only after it has been established that the pupil is, or will be, absent from school.
These are some exceptional scenarios where remote education might be considered:
- school closures or restrictions on attendance, where school access for pupils is restricted
- individual cases where a pupil is unable to attend school but is able to learn (e.g. recovering from s short term infectious illness. preparing for or recovering from some operations). This will be considered on a case by case basis and reviewed regularly.
