The Government's Temporary Continuity Direction makes it clear that schools have a duty to provide remote education for state-funded, school-age children whose attendance would be contrary to government guidance or law around coronavirus (COVID-19).

 Remote education provided should be equivalent in length to the core teaching pupils would receive in school and will include both recorded or live direct teaching time, and time for pupils to complete tasks and assignments independently. The amount of remote education provided should be, as a minimum:

• Key Stage 1: 3 hours a day on average across the cohort, with less for younger children

• Key Stage 2: 4 hours a day

In developing our remote education, we expect teachers to:

• teach a planned and well-sequenced curriculum so that knowledge and skills are built incrementally, with a good level of clarity about what is intended to be taught and practised in each subject so that pupils can progress through the school’s curriculum

• use Seesaw in EYFS and KS1 and Google Classroom in KS2 as digital platforms to deliver Remote Learning, allowing interaction, assessment and feedback.

• overcome barriers to digital access for pupils by distributing school-owned Chrome books to those who require digital access to learning or providing printed resources to structure learning, supplemented with other forms of communication to keep pupils on track or answer questions about work.

• have systems for checking, daily, whether pupils are engaging with their work, and work with families to rapidly identify effective solutions where engagement is a concern

• set meaningful and ambitious work each day in an appropriate range of subjects

• provide teaching that is equivalent in length to the core teaching pupils would receive in school. This will include both recorded or live direct teaching time and time for pupils to complete tasks and assignments independently.

•  work collaboratively with families, putting in place reasonable adjustments as necessary, so that pupils with SEND can successfully access remote education alongside their peers.

• check if a vulnerable child is able to access remote education support, to support them to access it (as far as possible) and to regularly check if they are doing so.

• support children to keep safe whilst working online.

• Liaise with Mrs Milner, Deputy Head, who has overarching responsibility for the quality and delivery of remote education, including that provision meets expectations for remote education