Cliftonville Primary and Pre School Digital Learning Strategy

‘Remote Learning’

Why the need?

In September 2020, all our classes returned to full time education following the COVID-19 closure in March 2020. We know that there is every chance this year of continued interruption to learning if a child, bubble, or indeed the whole school needs to self-isolate for a period of time. We are therefore planning our 'remote learning' offer so that all children can continue with their education. 

The challenge

We have been pulling together knowledge and information needed to develop our remote learning offer and truly understand the nature of the barriers that may present themselves to us and all parents. We have asked parents what technology they have at home; we have trialled  using MICROSOFT TEAMS with some parents in each year group and each year group now has 'experts' to support this development within their team.

The main challenges that exist are;

• Workload- not increasing additional workload for staff or parents
• Access to the learning- technology ( hardware and internet),
• Lack of skill/confidence in using the new TEAMS technology,
• Ensuring full engagement from the children

Intent (aim)

Without a large increase in additional workload, we are aiming to be able to provide a continuity of learning from the classroom to home ensuring access for all (equality of entitlement) and that the learning be accessed from the lowest point. Both teachers and children will be expected to be actively engaged in the learning experience.

Implementation

The building blocks for our effective digital learning strategy

The building blocks needed to develop our strategy for digital ‘remote ‘learning are;

How should we prepare- our general principles to continuing the education of those isolating or quarantining

The Tiered Approach

We understand the difficulties that remote learning may pose to a family and will be striving to make it as easy as we can for the learning to continue.  

Providing a structure for the learning is key and we encourage you to adopt wherever possible the similar structure as they would have at school.

The ‘daily diet’

It is important that this’ daily diet’ provides;

• New learning
• Is meaningful
• Builds on prior learning
• Small steps
• Direct teaching and modelling
• Provides feedback for understanding
• Requires minimal support from home

For example

1. Daily deliberate practice- multiplication, number bonds, spellings, phonics, handwriting etc
2. Daily lessons- PE, Maths, reading, Writing, GPS
3. Weekly lessons- History, Geog etc