High Ercall Primary School

At High Ercall Primary School, we will offer remote learning to any pupil absent for a long period of time due to medical reasons - and is able to access learning.

DFE Guidance

In all guidance related to supporting children with medical conditions, there may be a time when we can support a child through remote learning - for example in a period of convalescence, or when medical advice is to isolate from school. 

In such cases High Ercall Primary School will:

• use a curriculum sequence that allows access to high-quality online and offline resources and teaching videos and that is linked to the school’s curriculum expectations
• give access to high quality remote education resources
• select the online tools that will be consistently used across the school in order to allow interaction, assessment and feedback and make sure staff are trained in their use
• provide printed resources, such as textbooks and workbooks, for pupils who do not have suitable online access
• recognise that younger pupils and some pupils with SEND may not be able to access remote education without adult support
• provide tutor learning in person where possible

When teaching pupils remotely, we will:

• set assignments so that pupils have meaningful and ambitious work each day in a number of different subjects
• 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
• provide frequent, clear explanations of new content, delivered by a teacher in the school or through high-quality curriculum resources or videos
• gauge how well pupils are progressing through the curriculum, using questions and other suitable tasks and set a clear expectation on how regularly teachers will check work
• enable teachers to adjust the pace or difficulty of what is being taught in response to questions or assessments, including, where necessary, revising material or simplifying explanations to ensure pupils’ understanding
• plan a programme that is of equivalent length to the core teaching pupils would receive in school, ideally including daily contact with teachers

We will consider these expectations in relation to the pupils’ age, stage of development or special educational needs, for example where this would place significant demands on parents’ help or support. We will not set long-term projects or internet research activities.

Home Learning Core Offer

In order to support the wellbeing of our staff they will not be expected to respond to emails or be in Teams sessions beyond the school day ie 8:30am to 3:30pm.  We also recognise that many of our staff have families of their own to support and will need to manage their own days around this too.  Teachers may also be teaching in school during the day – and so there may not be immediate response to concerns about learning but we would aim to respond within 24 hours.