REMOTE / VIRTUAL LEARNING CONTINGENCY PLAN - The ContinU Plus Academy 2021

The ContinU Plus Academy

   2021
              REMOTE /
               VIRTUAL
              LEARNING
            CONTINGENCY
                PLAN

The ContinU Plus Academy is committed to following the most up to date Government guidance
and, as a result, is prepared to ‘switch’ swiftly from on-site education to remote education without
downgrading the curriculum entitlements of pupils.

Government expectations as of August 2020 are:

For individuals or groups of self-isolating pupils, remote education plans should be in place. These
should meet the same expectations as those for any pupils who cannot yet attend school at all due
to coronavirus (COVID-19). See section on remote education support.

In the event of a local outbreak, the LORT team or local authority may advise a school or number of
schools to close temporarily to help control transmission. Schools will also need a contingency plan
for this eventuality. This may involve a return to remaining open only for vulnerable children and the
children of critical workers, and providing remote education for all other pupils.

The ContinU Plus Academy will adhere to the Government’s 4 Tier approach to increasing
restrictions in the event of a localised / national ‘significant increase in Covid-19 cases’ scenario
although ‘local’ exemptions may apply. It is noted that The ContinU Plus Academy expects face
coverings are to be worn by Year 7 pupils upwards and all staff (unless exempt) whilst on corridors
or whilst in communal areas such as the dining hall(s). Exemptions only apply to pupils or staff with
medical reasons for not wearing face coverings or for those who have completed an ‘opt out’
disclaimer form. It should be noted that the ContinU Plus Academy classess facial expressions as a
critical factor of effective education and that this is seen as a reason for exemption. All pupils should
attend unless there is a centre-based situation and The ContinU Plus Academy is following local
Public Health advice on partial or full closure.

Current UK Tier Restrictions and Guidelines

Tier 1
The default position for areas in national government intervention is that education and childcare
settings will remain open. An area moving into national intervention with restrictions short of
education and childcare closure is described as ‘tier 1’. There are no changes to childcare, and the
only difference in education settings is that where pupils in year 7 and above are educated, face
coverings should be worn by adults and pupils when moving around the premises, outside of
classrooms, such as in corridors and communal areas where social distancing cannot easily be
maintained.

All nurseries, childminders, schools, colleges and other educational establishments should remain
open and continue to allow all their children and young people to attend, on site, with no other
restrictions in place.

Tier 2
Early years settings, primary schools and alternative provision (AP) providers, special schools and
other specialist settings will continue to allow all children/pupils to attend on site. Secondary schools
move to a rota model, combining on-site provision with remote education. They continue to allow
full-time attendance on site to vulnerable children and young people and the children of critical
workers. All other pupils should not attend on site except for their rota time. Further education (FE)
providers should adopt similar principles with discretion to decide on a model that limits numbers
on site but works for each individual setting.

In all areas of national government intervention, education settings where pupils in year 7 and
above are educated, face coverings should be worn by adults and pupils when moving around the
premises, outside of classrooms, such as in corridors and communal areas where social distancing
cannot easily be maintained.

Tier 3
Childcare, nurseries, primary schools, AP, special schools and other specialist settings will continue
to allow all children/pupils to attend on site. Secondary schools, FE colleges and other educational
establishments would allow full-time on-site provision only to vulnerable children, the children of
critical workers and selected year groups (to be identified by Department for Education). Other
pupils should not attend on site. Remote education to be provided for all other pupils.

In all areas of national government intervention, education settings where pupils in year 7 and
above are educated, face coverings should be worn by adults and pupils when moving around the
premises, outside of classrooms, such as in corridors and communal areas where social distancing
cannot easily be maintained.

Tier 4
All nurseries, childminders, mainstream schools, colleges and other educational establishments
allow full-time attendance on site only to our priority groups: vulnerable children and the children
of critical workers. All other pupils should not attend on site. AP, special schools and other
specialist settings will allow for full-time on-site attendance of all pupils. Remote education to be
provided for all other pupils.

In all areas of national government intervention, education settings where pupils in year 7 and
above are educated, face coverings should be worn by adults and pupils when moving around the
premises, outside of classrooms, such as in corridors and communal areas where social distancing
cannot easily be maintained.

Government Expectations for Effective Remote Education and Support

Where a class, group or small number of pupils need to self-isolate, or there is a local lockdown
requiring pupils to remain at home, we expect schools to have the capacity to offer immediate
remote education. Schools are expected to consider how to continue to improve the quality of their
existing offer and have a strong contingency plan in place for remote education provision by the end
of September. This planning will be particularly important to support a scenario in which the
logistical challenges of remote provision are greatest, for example where large numbers of pupils are
required to remain at home.

In developing these contingency plans, we expect schools to:

   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, and so schools should work with families to deliver a broad and
    ambitious curriculum.

When teaching pupils remotely, we expect schools to:

   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 and/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 expect schools to consider these expectations in relation to the pupils’ age, stage of
development and/or special educational needs, for example where this would place significant
demands on parents’ help or support. We expect schools to avoid an over-reliance on long-term
projects or internet research activities.

Minimum curriculum entitlement for remote learning for all learners, whatever their circumstances:

    -   Maths
    -   English
    -   Literacy
    -   Wellbeing support

It is expected that most learners will be able to be offered in addition to the above:

    -   Work for their KS4 / KS5 option courses or curriculum courses
    -   Remote careers support (KS4 / KS5)
    -   Science
    -   Humanities
    -   Physical Activity Guidance (in the home and exercise around neighbourhood)
    -   Art

The government expects that teachers provide regular explanations of new work – this can be
offered online LIVE using Google Classroom (following our agreed safeguarding protocol in staff
guidance), or it can be provided through a pre-existing video online.

The ContinU Plus Academy – Our On-Site Commitment

The ContinU Plus is committed to being open to all of its pupils and staff every day. Only
Government restrictions and the health concerns and family preferences (where they are justified)
threaten to reduce the numbers of pupils accessing the school. As of January 2021, the ContinU Plus
Academy is running a ‘split staff’ across a two week timetable. Staff on-site deliver lessons and
support as per the timetables below (subject to staff absence, changes, weather conditions etc) and
staff off-site and on standby for support in addition to being responsible for delivering the online
entitlements of out pupils.

KS3 On-Site

                                Week 1                                     Week 2
  Monday            OED          OED           OED            OED           OED           OED
  Tuesday          English       Art           Maths         English         Art            PE
 Wednesday          Food         Art           Maths         Maths           Art         Science
  Thursday        Geography       PE           Food          Maths          Food         Science
   Friday          English       Art           Food          English         Art          Maths

Year 10 On-Site

                                Week 1                                     Week 2
  Monday            Food          Art         English        Science       Drama          Art
  Tuesday           OED          OED           OED           Science       English       Maths
 Wednesday           Art         Food         English        English       Science        Art
  Thursday           PE          Food         English           PE         Science       Maths
   Friday           Food        English       Science         Maths           PE          Art

Year 11 On-Site

                                Week 1                                     Week 2
  Monday             Art        English         Food         Drama            PE         Science
  Tuesday          Maths         Food          English        OED           OED           OED
 Wednesday         English       Maths          Food           Art         Science       English
  Thursday           Art        English        Maths         English        Maths         Food
   Friday          English      Science          Art           PE          English       Science

Year 12 On-Site

                                Week 1                                     Week 2
  Monday           English       Food            Art           Art         Science       Drama
  Tuesday            Art        Maths           Food           Art          Maths         Food
 Wednesday          OED          OED            OED           OED           OED           OED
  Thursday          Food        Maths            Art          Food         English         Art
   Friday            Art         Food          English         Art          Maths        English

CPA Online Learning Commitment

          All pupils have a two-week timetable for online lessons
          3 lessons a day, 10-11, 11:30-12:30 (can be linked to Oak Academy where appropriate), 1-2
           (in line with government expectations of 3-5 hours a day)
          Weekly physical work packs to supplement online lessons
          All teachers are now in receipt of visualisers to assist with online lessons
          Phone calls to pupils each day from a teacher, safe and well/academic support

Timetables as follows:

KS3 A

 Time                       Mon            Tues            Wed            Thurs            Fri
 10:00 –                                                                                   MC
                            TS English     AWO Art         CH Food        LP PSHE
 11:00                                                                                     Citizenship
 11:30 –          Week 1    Oak Academy    Oak Academy     Oak Academy    Oak Academy      Oak Academy
 12:30                      TS             AWO             CH             LP               MC
 13:00 –                    MC
                                           TR Maths        TS English     MC English       TS English
 14:00                      Citizenship

 Time                       Mon             Tues           Wed            Thurs            Fri
 10:00 –
                            AL              ECJ Art        EM Science     JL Pupil Voice   JB
 11:00
 11:30 –          Week 2    Oak Academy     Oak Academy    Oak Academy    Oak Academy      Oak Academy
 12:30                      AL              ECJ            EM             JL               JB
 13:00 –
                            TH Maths        TH Science     AL             JB               AL
 14:00

KS3 B

 Time                       Mon            Tues            Wed            Thurs            Fri
 10:00 –                                                                  MC
                            MC             TR Maths        TS English                      TS English
 11:00                                                                    Citizenship
 11:30 –          Week 1    Oak Academy    Oak Academy     Oak Academy    Oak Academy      Oak Academy
 12:30                      MC             TR              TS             MC               TS
 13:00 –
                            TS English     AWO Art         CH Food        SD Pupil Voice   CH Food
 14:00

 Time                       Mon            Tues            Wed            Thurs            Fri
 10:00 –
                            TH Maths       TH Science      AL             JB               AL
 11:00
 11:30 –          Week 2    Oak Academy    Oak Academy     Oak Academy    Oak Academy      Oak Academy
 12:30                      TH             TH              AL             JB               AL
 13:00 –
                            AL             ECJ Art         EM Science     MV Maths         EM Science
 14:00

Year 10

 Time                       Mon              Tues            Wed           Thurs         Fri
 10:00 –
                            LP               MC English      TR Maths      TS English    CH Food
 11:00
 11:30 –          Week 1    Oak Academy      Oak Academy     Oak Academy   Oak Academy   Oak Academy
 12:30                      LP               MC              TR            TS            CH
 13:00 –
                            AWO Art          CH Food         AWO Art       TR Maths      AWO Art
 14:00

 Time                       Mon              Tues            Wed           Thurs         Fri
 10:00 –                                     JB
                            JL Pupil Voice                   TH Science    AL            EM Science
 11:00                                       Employability
 11:30 –          Week 2    Oak Academy      Oak Academy     Oak Academy   Oak Academy   Oak Academy
 12:30                      JL               JB              TH            AL            EM
 13:00 –
                            ECJ PE           EM Science      ECJ PE        TH Science    ECJ Art
 14:00

Year 11

 Time                       Mon              Tues            Wed           Thurs         Fri
 10:00 –
                            AWO Art          CH Food         AWO Art       TR Maths      AWO Art
 11:00
 11:30 –          Week 1    Oak Academy      Oak Academy     Oak Academy   Oak Academy   Oak Academy
 12:30                      AWO              CH              AWO           TR            AWO
 13:00 –
                            SD Pupil Voice   MC English      TR Maths      TS English    MC English
 14:00

 Time                       Mon              Tues            Wed           Thurs         Fri
 10:00 –
                            ECJ PE           EM Science      ECJ PE        TH Science    ECJ Art
 11:00
 11:30 –          Week 2    Oak Academy      Oak Academy     Oak Academy   Oak Academy   Oak Academy
 12:30                      ECJ              EM              ECJ           TH            ECJ
 13:00 –
                            MV Maths         JB              TH Science    AL            JB
 14:00

Staff Training

In order to promote high-quality online learning provision, staff have received training, have
provided additional medium term plans and are subject to regular online quality assurance. Staff
training comprised of:

          Setting up classes
          Adding pupils and other teachers
          Setting work and assigning deadlines
          Providing feedback to pupils work once submitted
          Setting up online lessons from google classroom with google meet
          Setting up a visualiser

A further class has been set on google classroom for staff to:

       Identify area of good practice and share with others
       Useful videos for setting up google classroom
       Blogs relating to online learning
       Useful websites

The National Oak Academy is validated by the UK Government and it is recommended that this
becomes a principal source of curriculum guidance and materials:

https://www.thenational.academy/oaks-curricula

Supportive resources for remote learning:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-online-education-resources

Marking and Assessment of work when remote education is in operation:

Medium term plans for online learning have been created by teachers to support online/remote
provision. The content of these plans is based around lost learning due to periods of lockdown or
self-isolation in addition to that which would have been covered if all pupils/staff were accessing the
school and its curriculum as normal.

Key Stage 4 and 5 core and optional subjects have content split between generation of evidence to
provide valid and reliable Centre Assessed Grades (CAGs) if required by Government as well as
preparing pupils for any examinations/assessments that they may yet still face.

Subject teachers/leaders are in at least weekly contact with every remote learner and are expected
to be assessing their progress through work being emailed back, physically returned or through
conversation. Clear, published deadlines for when any finished work must be submitted/returned
are provided to learners and regular phone / virtual check-ups by staff provide the support needed
to get work completed on time. Staff are expected to then mark/assess work that is submitted in line
with the school’s Assessment and Marking Policy. Staff report progress and attitude to learning
grades every half term – it is expected that the method of learning (on-site, off-site or a
combination) be considered carefully when making these judgements.

Additional Support Provided to Pupils at The ContinU Plus Academy

   -   Workpacks and resources (physical)
   -   Food vouchers (with top up)
   -   Fair share hampers
   -   Food parcels
   -   Careers remote support
   -   Mental health remote/on-site support
   -   ICT equipment and technical support
   -   Daily safe and well calls including discussion/encouragement of further transition from
       online to on-site learning