Daventry Hill School
Remote Education
This information is intended to provide clarity and transparency to students and families about what to expect from remote education where it is necessary to partially or fully close the school at any point.
In the event of a school closure, our top priority is the safety and wellbeing of all students and staff.
What is taught to students at home?
The education provided remotely might look different to our typical approach in school.
Initially, remote education will take place with teachers proving work either electronically through Class Dojo or through physical work packs that are sent home with the child.
We will use a combination of the following approaches to teach students remotely:
- Live teaching (online lessons)
- Recorded teaching (e.g. audio recordings made by teachers, Oak National Academy lessons, video etc).
- Printed paper packs produced by teachers (e.g. workbooks, worksheets)
- Textbooks and reading books students have at home
- Commercially available websites, supporting the teaching of specific subjects or areas, including video clips or sequences
- Preparing for Adulthood (PfA) activities to complete at home include life skills such as cooking, washing, hoovering, and self-care.
- Pre-recorded fitness activities
- Group sessions online for students to interact with each other
- 'Learning Outside the Classroom' activities
- Specific activities to meet individual needs, ie TACPAC, sensory programmes, physiotherapy
Accessing remote education
Remote education will be provided in a variety of ways. The best platform will be decided based on a number of criteria (the focus of the learning and most effective medium, student preference, feedback from families etc).
The mediums used to deliver are Microsoft Teams, Class Dojo and Email. Teaching staff will also provide links to any other online learning tools that we are using, such as CBeebies, Oak Academy or BBC Bitesize.
Teachers will continue to assess work completed by the student.
What happens if you don't have digital or online access at home?
We recognise that some students may not have suitable online access at home. We take the following approaches to support those affected:
- Delivery of physical work packs to your home.
- Loans of laptops, or other appropriate technologies, for those that do not have the technology to access online platforms, if possible.
If families need access to technology (including Internet access), please contact your class teacher to discuss your situation.
We will issue technology using a priority system. Priority cases will be:
- Those that have NO access to technology at home.
- Students in exam/accreditation year groups.
- Those who are receiving 1:1 pastoral intervention and not being able to access it will be detrimental to their wellbeing.
- Those who have limited access to technology due to siblings also accessing remote learning.
Completed work can be submitted to the class teacher through a variety of agreed methods. These may include:
- Microsoft Teams
- Class Dojo