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Blue Gate
Fields
Junior
School
Remote Education Provision
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REMOTE EDUCATION PROVISION | January 2021
Remote education provision: information for parents
Remote education is a broad term encompassing any learning that happens outside of the class-
room, with the teacher not present in the same location as the pupils.
This information is intended to provide clarity and transparency to pupils and parents, or carers,
about what to expect from remote education, if local restrictions require entire cohorts (or
bubbles) to remain at home.
For details of what to expect where individual pupils are self-isolating, please see the final
section of this page.
The remote curriculum: what is taught to pupils at home
Your child’s first day or two of being educated remotely might look different from our standard
approach, while we take all necessary actions to prepare for a longer period of remote teaching.
What should my child expect from immediate remote education in the first day
or two of pupils being sent home?
Pupils will have access to remote learning by accessing a Home Learning Blog which is found on
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the home page of the school website (www.bluegatefields-jun.towerhamlets.sch.uk) under the
heading HOME LEARNING. The Learning blogs are organised by Year Groups.
When your child accesses the
blog, they will find a timetable for
the day which will include at least
four lessons – Maths, Literacy
and foundation subjects. The day
will begin with a physical activity
and will end with a story that they can listen to.
In addition, your child can log in to Mathletics,
Active Learn and Timestables Rockstars.
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Following the first few days of remote education, will my child be taught broadly
the same curriculum as they would if they were in school?
We teach the same curriculum remotely as we do in school wherever possible and appropriate.
However, we have needed to make some adaptations in some subjects. For example, we need to
take into account difficulties in resourcing of some aspects of the curriculum which may require
special equipment; some aspects of the delivery of the curriculum require particular
classroom/school organisation which is not possible to replicate at home, for example a practical
science lesson.
We are offering opportunities to engage in well-being activities: yoga, relaxation activities, and
interactive drama therapy activities.
We acknowledge the demands on parents to support their children to access the learning (they
may be supporting several children, or working from home), and the pathway we take through
our curriculum, when it is presented remotely, takes this into account. We do not wish our
remote learning to be burdensome to parents.
Remote teaching and study time each day
How long can I expect work set by the school to take my child each day?
We expect that remote education will take pupils at the
very least four hours a day; our expectation is that it will 3
take longer depending on the year group that your child
is in. Alongside the lessons, there are links to further
online learning: Mathletics for teacher assigned practice,
Timetables Rockstars for multiplication fluency, and
Active Learn for age and ability related reading and
comprehension practice. The planned lessons are
supplemented by other activities which are designed to
encourage interest, engagement and reflection, for
example puzzles, riddles, songs and art appreciation. In
addition to lessons, the school provides weekend
activities and a dedicated space on the website to art
lessons which children can revisit in their spare time.
How will my child access any online remote
education you are providing?
The learning provided is designed to be bespoke to the
year group; it is created by using a variety of resources
some of which are online and require a password. For example, children will be asked to access
Mathletics (maths practice) and Active Learn (reading and comprehension). For any other
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websites which require a password, the information will be posted on the blog. The passwords
that the children use are the same as when they are in school and they should all be familiar with
them. In anticipation of further school closure, the children have been taught to use passwords
and to email for advice. We understand that passwords are often forgotten, and so help can be
found by contacting our ICT support staff by email (info@bgfjs.org), or by using their year group
email addresses (year3@bgfjs.org, year4@bgfjs.org, year5@bgfjs.org, year6@bgfjs.org).
If my child does not have digital or online access at home, how will you support
them to access remote education?
We understand that digital or online access at home is not possible for all children, and we ask
parents to contact us if they require support with these issues. The school email address is
admin@bluegatefields-jun.towerhamlets.sch.uk and our telephone number is 0207 790 3616.
It is our aim to provide learning materials that do not require printing, however in some
circumstances, we will be able to provide printed materials.
How will my child be taught remotely?
We present the learning through blogs (posted daily on the school website) to make the learning
visually appealing; we hope this will encourage engagement with the content. We want the
learning to be clear and comprehensive for the children, and transparent for parents so that they 4
can easily understand the expectations and are able to monitor their children’s learning. The
school website is used to enable parents to manage the technology involved in accessing
learning as straight forwardly as possible; parents with varying levels of expertise are not
disadvantaged. We use a combination of the following approaches to teach pupils remotely
selecting from resources we consider to be of the highest quality and best suitability to the age
of the pupils and the subject area.
recorded teaching includes
BBC Bitesize and BBC Teach for all subjects
Oak National Academy for
literacy
Rockalinguia for Spanish
White Rose for maths
Timestables Rockstars
(www.play.ttrockstars.com)
for multiplication tables
practice
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Tigtag (www.tigtagworld.co.uk) for science
Espresso for all subject areas (www.discoverylearning.co.uk)
Audio storytelling, and other video recordings provided by authors and publishers,
for example The Book Trust
The Body Coach TV (Youtube) for physical education
Our own in-school lesson recording
‘worksheets’ (which do not need to be printed); children can complete and then receive
feedback from teachers
quizzes
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opportunities for reflection
and thought, in particular
for well-being and
creativity
access to class teacher
guidance through
personalised video
recordings
We have made the decision not to teach live lessons for these reasons:
access to devices may be limited;
demand for devices may be shared between multiple family members, including working
parents;
a time constrained lesson may clash with the live lessons of other pupils including
secondary school pupils;
we want pupils to be able to work at their own pace, with the opportunity to review and
revisit learning content.
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We will produce some recorded content, created by Blue Gate Fields Junior School teachers, in
order to provide clear explanations, model the work and to set the learning in context – what has
come before, what will be learnt next and what the memory links are.
We know that when learning online, your child’s concentration may be shorter, and so ‘chunks’
of learning will be shorter and manageable. This could look like a short video, followed by a short
activity and then an opportunity for some checking of understanding. Within the remote
learning, we will take different approaches according to the best way to present the learning,
and present different types of content to suit different pupils.
In most cases, we have avoided supplying printed paper packs for safety reasons as we want
create as little traffic in and out of the school building as possible.
We understand that all family circumstances differ, and so our decisions about remote learning
aim to make the learning as accessible as possible to all.
Engagement and feedback
What are your expectations for my child’s engagement and the support that we
as parents and carers should provide at home?
We expect that you will engage with your children to support them to follow the daily timetable
of learning. We have deliberately created a timetable to provide a structure within which you 6
can manage the needs of your family, whilst recognising that this may look different for all
children. The timetable, and the learning content, is designed to allow your child to work as
independently as possible.
Your child may need your support to send and receive emails to their teachers.
Your child can email their work, by photographing it or document attaching, to their year group
email address.
We will offer a live assembly session on Google Meet once a week for each class. We know that
peer interactions can improve motivation and learning outcomes, and so this is an opportunity to
‘check-in’ with the teacher and to interact with their classmates, under the direction and
supervision of two members of school staff.
The school will support you, if your child is finding accessing the learning challenging. We will
telephone children at least once a week to check on their learning, but if you feel that a more
regular call is necessary we can make particular arrangements.
If you have concerns about your child’s well-being, you can email our therapy team well-
being@bgfjs.org , or call us to talk about your worries. We encourage you to take up this offer.
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We will offer support to
parents from our therapists, if
concerns are raised during our
phone calls with you. On the
Well-being page (found on the
front page of the website),
under the tab Well-being for
Parents, we will post advice
and offers of support; as these
are updated, we will contact
you by text message.
On the Home Learning Blog,
there are How to… videos to
guide you in supporting your
children with organising a
learning day, reading together
and talking about learning,
amongst other subjects.
If you have any questions, or need advice, then we are delighted to be able to offer it: please call
the school office.
How will you check whether my child is engaging with their work and how will I
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We will take a daily register, with children asked to self-register through the school website Year
Group blogs. All children are encouraged to send in their work examples and in this way, we can
check their engagement and learning activity. Teachers will be monitoring the children’s access
to Mathletics and monitoring progress through their assigned tasks. Weekly phone calls, (more if
necessary), to families will provide feedback on learning with advice for progression with their
learning. It will also address any concerns that either children or parents have in relation to
learning and well-being.
How will you assess my child’s work and progress?
Our approach to feeding back on pupil work is as follows:
When teachers receive submitted work form the children, they will comment and respond
accordingly with feedback for improvement if necessary
Mathletics learning is both selected by the children and allocated by the teacher. Teacher
assigned learning is monitored for progress; the teachers can see the success rates of the
pupils and identify where more practice, or support is required
ActiveLearn which requires a log-in also is monitored by teachers who are able to allocate
books according to the progress being made by the children
Your child will be able to assess their own success by using the ‘answers’ button on the blog.
REMOTE EDUCATION PROVISION | January 2021If they recognise that they are having difficulties, they can raise this by email, or during a
telephone call with their teacher
Phone calls to children will involve questions about well-being, but will also provide feedback
on their work and progress.
Teachers will produce feedback video content to address particular and specific needs where
necessary.
If you have questions, or concerns about your child’s learning, do not hesitate to contact us.
Additional support for pupils with particular needs
How will you work with me to help my child who needs additional support from
adults at home to access remote education?
We recognise that some pupils, for example some pupils with special educational needs and
disabilities (SEND), may not be able to access remote education without support from adults at
home. We acknowledge that this will have particular and specific difficulties for families, and we
will work with parents and carers to support those pupils in the following ways:
A member of the senior leadership team is available and contactable through the school
office (0207 790 3616)
The SENDCO is available for advice and support and will regularly contact those children 8
with an Educational Health Care Plan
We can offer ICT support and advice
Remote education for self-isolating pupils
Where individual pupils need to self-isolate but the majority of their peer group remains in
school, how remote education is provided will likely differ from the approach for whole groups.
This is due to the challenges of teaching pupils both at home and in school.
If my child is not in school because they are self-isolating, how will their remote
education differ from the approaches described above?
In most respects the remote education will not differ from the approaches outlined above, which
describe the provision offered if restrictions require entire cohorts (or bubbles) to remain at
home. There will be a minimum of four hours learning posted daily which will be supplemented
by pupils’ access to Mathletics and Active Learn. In addition, there will be a daily story, or
chapter read in video format. In this circumstance, paper copies of learning packs will be
provided, if appropriate.
REMOTE EDUCATION PROVISION | January 2021Teachers will contact self-isolating pupils to provide feedback and your child will be able to have
contact with their teachers by telephoning the school should they require additional support and
guidance.
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