Remote Education Provision: Information for Parents

During COVID, our priority was to deliver high quality education, whether it be online or in school. We taught the same curriculum remotely as we did in school wherever possible and appropriate. We did make some adaptations to some subjects. For example, some subject areas such as Art and DT required materials that were not readily available to all families at home. In these instances, the class teacher may have blocked a subject that lends itself to remote teaching more easily and then taught the subject areas missed when pupils returned to school.

Post COVID-19 lockdowns and isolations, we have maintained our capacity for remote education. Although we are able to maintain this capacity, remote education will only be considered as a short-term measure and as a last resort where in-person attendance is not possible or contrary to government guidance.

This might include:

• Occasions when school leaders decide that it is not possible for their setting to open safely, or that opening would contradict guidance from local or central government.

• Occasions when individual pupils, for a limited duration, are unable to physically attend their school but are able to continue learning, for example pupils with an infectious illness.

In these circumstances, pupils will have access to remote education as soon as reasonably practicable, in proportion to the length of absence and disruption to their learning time, and allowing time for pupils to complete tasks and assignments independently.

The information below provides more information on how Remote Learning will be set / what you can expect if learning was to be moved to an online format again in the future.