A Typical Home Learning Day

Below is a diary of how a students typical day could look when learning at home.

8:00am - I have just woken up. An extra lay in this morning because I do not have to rush for the bus, result! I check my phone and respond to a message from Bella.

8:15am - Bathroom and breakfast, Coco Pops, my favourite!

8:40am - Mum's going to work and I am left with my older brother who is in college, he is in his room playing Fortnite. I don't think he is going to pass his college course if he does not do some work!

8:50am - I log in to my laptop and go to www.easternhigh.org.uk. I click on the padlock button to log in to my Realsmart account. I forgot my password yesterday and had to contact my LF tutor through my mobile phone email info@easternhigh.org.uk. They reset my password to 'password' so I should be able to log in today using my initial, surname and year I joined the school.

8:55am - It is asking for my old password??? The school changed it to 'password' so I use that. It is now asking for a new password, I better use something I remember that is at least 8 characters long and contains a number....I will use my dogs name, Alfonso20. I have to confirm it again... Alfonso20.

9:00am - I have logged into the student dashbaord and I go to check my email by clicking on the envelope icon.....

9:01am - Whoa!!! 95 new emails, I will never be able to read all those! Looks like most of them are from teachers that have posted assignments from Google Classroom. However, there is one from my Learning Family tutor asking how I am, thats nice, I will respond to that before looking at my timetable.

9:10am - I check my timetable. I have maths first with Miss Hobby, shes great I hope we have a live lesson today.

9:15am - I go to Google Classroom and open the Maths Classroom. Miss has posted an announcement...

"Hi class, I posted an assignment on Algebra in the classwork section, there is a template to complete. I will be holding a Live Lesson at 9:30 to go over the difficult concepts. I will post the code at 9:20, just follow the link. Dress appropriatly, I do not want to see anyones pyjamas no matter how nice they are."

9:20am - I have opened the assignment in Google Classroom and read through the instructions. It all looks ok apart from the part on the Nth term. I best attend the live lesson to see what to do.

9:30am - I have clicked on the link for the live session, I have turned my camera and microphone off, I dont want people seeing me anyway. Miss Hobby is online, she has a space background today! She has explained what the task is and also how to work out the Nth term. I feel happier completing the assignment now. She told me to turn it in and check back at 10:00.

10:00am - I completed the assignment, I think I did ok. I left a couple of the harder questions. I press the 'Turn in' button and return back to the Google meet. I have explained to Miss the part I found hard, she has sent me a link to a video that will help me. I will check it out later.

10:10am - Time for a quick break, some fruit, toilet and a walk around the house. Annoy my brother!

10:30am - English next on my timetable, Mrs Turnball. I click on my English Google classroom and see that she has sent an assignment. There is no Google Meet code, prehaps she will post it later. I click on the assignment and read the instructions.

"Hi Class, here is an extract from Mice and Men. I want you to read the extract then create a diary from the perspective of Lennie explaining what happened to him that day. Remember to use lots of discriptive words and talking in the first person. I have attached a model example and some help sheets to the assignment. Make sure you look at and use all the resources available. You will have to create your own Google Doc for this assignment or alternatively you can create a slideshow or powtoon, just remember to attach the file to this assignment and turn it in. There is no Google meet today as I am in school looking after the key worker pupils but I will catch up with you next lesson. I will post the link in the stream. As always any problems or questions email me or write them in the comments/stream and I will answer as soon as I can, have a good day."

10:40am - Wow she can waffle! I will have a go at the diary. I created a slideshow in my Google Drive for this assignement as I can use that really well.

11:20am - I had a good go at the diary but I do not think I will get it finished. I will return back to this later as I am a bit bored of this now anyway, I have got Science next anyway and I want a break.

11:30am - 20 minute break. Called Frankie for a chat, she has not logged onto her Google Classroom today, I hope she does not fall behind, I think she would have liked the Maths Live lesson especially when Jason's dog tried to lick his screen.

11:50am - Science. It's proper boring when you do not get to do experiments. I click on the science classroom and see an announcement form Mr Matthias

"HEY CLASS!!! I have a really exciting lesson for you today, all you need is a lemon, 2 copper coins, a lightbulb and an open mind! Don't worry if you don't have these you can just follow me and we will discuss in the Live lesson. Click on the code in the stream at 11:40."

11:55am - I click on the link, opps I am late! Mr Mattias is making a lightbulb work using only a lemon, wow!

12:30pm - That was fun, it was good to see others from my class, we did a little Kahoot quiz at the end too, I came 3rd go me. I have to fill in a Google Form and turn it in to show what I understood from the lesson.

12:40pm - Time for some lunch!

1:20pm - Spanish next. Senior Matteo, I have clicked on the Spanish Classroom. There is nothing new there today, just the task I had to finish last week on Spanish verbs. I better complete that and turn it in! "Bostezo!"

2:00pm - I have finished my Spanish work and turned it in this time, I sent Senior Metteo an email. Jason snapchatted me, he said Sir has got Covid and that is why there was no work there today, luckily I had something to get on with. Jason struggled though as he could not access his work, it said he didn't have permission to open the file. I told him that it is proberbly because he is logged into his sisters account who is in year 9 and they share the same laptop. I told him to log out of everything, close it all down and log back in. That seemed to do the trick and Jason can access his work. Poor Jane had to do her work on her phone, I told her to download the Google Classroom, Google slides and Google Doc's App from the app store, it makes it much easier to do assignments with the correct apps, I hope she did not find it too difficult, I will facetime her later.

2:10pm - Learning family time. I go to my Learning Family Google Classroom and join the virtual meeting. Mrs Miller is there with the rest of my learning family and we are reflecting on what we did that day. It's good to see everyone in my form.

2:30pm - I look at my timetable and check what lessons I have tomorrow. I am just going to check each classroom quickly to see if there are any announcments and Google Meets happening tomorrow. I am not going to do the work that is there now, I have done enough today.

3:00pm - Time to log off, I have looked at a screen for long enough today, time to watch some TV!

3:15pm - PING, PING, PING,PING....95 emails!!!! Must remember to turn those email notifications off, I will watch Mr Johnson's help video tomorrow to see how to do this.