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This information is intended to provide clarity and transparency to students and parents or carers about what to expect from remote education when we are in a period of local or national restrictions which require entire cohorts (or bubbles) to remain at home.
For details of what to expect where individual students are self-isolating, please see the final section of this document.
A student’s first day or two of being educated remotely at the beginning of self-isolation or local/national restrictions might look different from our standard approach, while we take all necessary actions to prepare for a longer period of remote teaching.
Note that full details of the school’s curriculum is available on our website for each subject and year group. If the content of the remote curriculum is different this will be outlined in this statement and made clear by subject teachers to classes.
It is possible that full remote provision might start immediately, delivered via Microsoft Teams (please see below for details of what this entails). Alternatively, teachers might post assignment for students to Microsoft Teams to cover the first day or two of school/cohort closure.
Broadly, we teach the same curriculum remotely as we would teach in school wherever possible and appropriate. PE lessons are not delivered ‘live’ (with the exception of GCSE PE theory lessons). Instead PE teachers will post challenges for students to undertake to give ideas and encouragement for their physical activity. In Key Stage 3 Art, Drama, Music, and DT lessons are delivered through assignments being posted for students; teaching staff are available online during these lessons to support students and encourage them through the ‘chat’ function on Microsoft Teams. In some instances, teaching staff may run some sections of these lessons ‘live’. In both Key Stages PSHE will be delivered through the posting of assignments and some ‘live’ delivery of content.
Parents/carers and students can access details of what is taught on our website here for Key Stage 3 students: https://www.kingsschoolhove.org.uk/curriculumks3.php
and here for Key Stage 4 students: https://www.kingsschoolhove.org.uk/curriculumks4.php
In some cases teachers might deviate from the usual curriculum to enable effective remote learning. Where this is the case we will give parents/carers details of our changes and rationale for the changes.
Students will follow their usual timetable for remote learning, and will have their usual break and lunch time. This means that students can access 5 hours of online structured learning per school day.
All remote learning will be provided through Microsoft Teams; all work is set on this platform and all feedback to students is provided through this platform. If any extension tasks are set they will be set on this platform also. In some assignments teachers may point to other widely available online resources, e.g. newspaper articles, You Tube clips, BBC bitesize content etc.
Lessons should be accessed using a device suitable for the task. The same applies to completing work. In most cases this will be a laptop, PC, Apple Mac computer or tablet. Students should also be in a location where they are able to concentrate.
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:
You should contact us via admin@kingsschoolhove.org.uk for further information. Alternatively please call us on 01273 840004 between the hours of 8:30am and 4:00pm.
We use a combination of the following approaches to teach students remotely:
Our expectations are that parents ensure:
We recognise that there will be limits on the support that parents/carers are able to provide. We would ask that you maintain a good dialogue with us if you are in need of any support.
If you wish to request a password reset for your child’s Teams account please contact passwords@kingsschoolhove.org.uk
If you wish to contact the school about a remote learning issue you should contact Assistant Headteacher Mrs Vincent k.vincent@kingsschoolhove.org.uk
If you wish to contact the school about a pastoral issue you should contact us via pastoral@kingsschoolhove.org.uk or contact your child’s Head of Year
Periodically the school will contact you to complete a survey to gain your overall feedback.
Full contact details for school staff can be found here: https://www.kingsschoolhove.org.uk/contactus.php
We are fully aware that remote learning may be challenging for families and we are here to support you and your children through it. We will be monitoring students’ attendance and their engagement with online learning through Classcharts.
We will do this by:
You are welcome to contact us at any time if you have any concerns about your child’s attendance or engagement with remote learning. Please contact your child’s form tutor in the first instance and they will liaise with colleagues as appropriate.
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 student work is as follows:
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:
We will work with families to deliver remote education for students with SEND by:
Where individual students 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 students both at home and in school.
Students needing to self-isolate at home, when peers are in school, will be able to access their usual timetable through Microsoft Teams.