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Oct 2020
10:13am, 8 Oct 2020
3,821 posts
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Mrsbridgewater
We are lucky in that respect. All the children have a tablet, what holds it back is the fact that I am a Luddite and that I have shocking WiFi at home (teaching remotely was often paused while I had to reset routers, turn things on and off)
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Oct 2020
11:18am, 8 Oct 2020
19,866 posts
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DeeGee
The more impoverished students here have been issued laptops by "the government". However, those who are in the band slightly above are having issues because they also don't have computers at home - people don't have home computers now - and then there are those who have parents using the computer themselves because they are WFH flexibly.
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Oct 2020
9:44pm, 13 Oct 2020
144 posts
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LouiseRuns 🌹🇬🇧 🇪🇺
Well, Year 3 got sent home today, as one of the teachers tested positive over the weekend (bit annoyed that the remaining Year 3 teachers didn't go home and isolate straight away as they're supposed to, but wandered round the school for a bit instead...) Spent part of the day ringing parents to check whether their children would be able to access online learning tomorrow, or whether we'd need to provide an iPad.
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Oct 2020
10:10pm, 13 Oct 2020
41,526 posts
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LindsD
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Oct 2020
10:16pm, 13 Oct 2020
1,603 posts
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Grast_girl
Oh no.
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Oct 2020
2:25pm, 14 Oct 2020
3,829 posts
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Mrsbridgewater
This came from SLT today:
'Although nothing has been announced yet, it may be that we have to teach online for the first week after half term. Even though pupils would be learning from home, we are all still required to come into school and teach our lessons from here, following the usual timetable. This applies to both Prep and Senior. You should therefore hand out anything that pupils might need (e.g. English GCSE set texts for the Year 10 pupils) before the end of next week.'
Surely the point of closing schools is to...er...close the schools, not to have all the adults in when they could work from home? I am lucky in that my children could be left home alone (although I'd rather not leave 3 teenagers at home all day) but lots of teachers have younger children.
In other news my yr12 son has been sent home to self isolate as he has been in close contact with a confirmed case at his college. We have told him that he can load the dishwasher but not unload it!
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Oct 2020
2:43pm, 14 Oct 2020
19,878 posts
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DeeGee
Three teacher in one faculty have tested positive, so the whole faculty are staying off as a precaution until after half term. We've also got one whole year group off.
My boy's primary school have also got one whole year group off.
Half term can't come soon enough...
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Oct 2020
2:46pm, 14 Oct 2020
68,719 posts
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swittle
What tier is your school situated in, DeeGee?
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Oct 2020
2:47pm, 14 Oct 2020
19,879 posts
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DeeGee
The one that's struggling is a large secondary with a sixth-form.
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Oct 2020
2:49pm, 14 Oct 2020
68,720 posts
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swittle
Didn't make myself clear: 1, 2, 3 - Medium/High/V high risk, per govt allocation.
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