Remote Learning News

Remote Learning Surveys

Parents Learning Survey

Results from our recent Parents Learning Survey show that over 90% of parents felt the online work was well organised, 92% said it was easy to access and 85% stating it is of a good standard. 78% were confident our remote teaching was supporting their children to learn at home and it was pleasing to note that the majority of parents felt the remote learning had improved since the previous lockdown. 69% of parents felt the amount of work set was adequate, those who did not mainly felt there was too much work set, we will be addressing this point in our full response letter to parents. We will be looking carefully at the feedback conveyed and consider any adaptations required, but will respond separately to the points raised by letter before the end of the term.

Live Lessons

One of the main points some parents raised was about 'live' lessons, via platforms such as Zoom. The Trust learning platform is Google and our school system does not support Zoom, which is why we use Google Classroom for teaching and learning and Google Meets for live social interaction with children. Live lessons are not appropriate or feasible for primary age children, as our engagement activity shows that children log on at different points of the day. Often parents are using the devices during the day for their own work and can only support their child's learning later in the day on the same device, a number of parents expressed this was the case in the survey and said they would find live lessons very tricky to manage. We feel it is far better to record 'live' video sessions of the teacher input, which allow pupils to access the lesson whenever it best suits them and stop, rewind and repeat the teaching until they are confident they know what to do. Every child learns at a different pace and this allows children to access the learning in their own time, without pressure.

Pupil Learning Survey

Following on from the Survey sent out to parents, Cherry Orchard introduced their own Remote Learning Survey for pupils, to give our children a chance to voice their opinion and help our teachers plan exciting lessons that they all enjoy and can access easily. We are delighted with the current responses so far, which indicates that 75% of our pupils in Year 1 - 5 can log on to the Google Classroom independently and 84% can answer the daily question to register, with 80% confident they know how to ask their teacher for help. 60% of those that have returned their questionnaires, so far, feel the work set is 'just right' with only 9% suggesting this is too little. Just under 80% say they find their teachers feedback helpful in improving their work. Of the responses we have received so far - 98% of the children say they enjoy the lessons the teachers set them, which is really encouraging news for the teachers to hear and inspires us to continue to improve our activities to be the best they can be!

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