A pupil’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.

Within 24 hours of being sent home pupils will receive work via google classroom or lessons will be live streamed via google classroom and google meet. These lessons will be timetabled in line with the ordinary school timetable.

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, in PE this is not a lesson led by the usual PE teacher. Additionally, where pupils have been working on NEA work, this may not be appropriate to continue with this remotely. Therefore, the curriculum is flexible to adapt to the needs of the remote learning.

We expect that remote education (including remote teaching and independent work) will take pupils broadly the following number of hours each day:

Key Stage 3 and 4
For all year groups this will be 4-5 hours per day.

Our remote learning offer is delivered through google classroom. All students have been provided with a google account, which allows them to access their school email, google classroom and google meet.

We recognise that some pupils may not have suitable online access at home. We take the following approaches to support those pupils to access remote education:

Where there is a need and if a pupil requires a laptop or a dongle to enable them to complete work please contact your child’s Head of Year via telephone 0161 681 1592 or email.

Year 7 email address – noma-headofyear7@coopacademies.co.uk
Year 8 email address – noma-headofyear8@coopacademies.co.uk
Year 9 email address – noma-headofyear9@coopacademies.co.uk
Year 10 email address – noma-headofyear10@coopacademies.co.uk
Year 11 email address – noma-headofyear11@coopacademies.co.uk

With the systems we have put in place, we do not think it is likely any pupil would need printed materials due to not having online access. However, if there is a special need for this please contact the school via the methods detailed above.

We use a combination of the following approaches to teach pupils remotely:

Where national or local restrictions require entire cohorts (or bubbles) to remain at home the school will use a range of approaches to teach pupils remotely.

• Some examples of the remote teaching approaches we use are:
• live teaching (online lessons)
• work set through google classroom
• recorded teaching (e.g. Oak National Academy lessons, video/audio recordings made by teachers)
• textbooks and reading books pupils have at home

Our expectations for pupils working remotely mirror those in school. We expect that pupils submit work that is set independently, to the best of their ability, at the time of their ordinary lesson. For example, work for period 1 would need to be completed by 10am. Period 2 work by 11am and so on.

Similarly, for any live lesson, we would expect that pupils attend, participate and engage in the same manner they would in an ordinary lesson taught in school.

We know how incredibly important it is for pupils to maintain as normal routine as possible, are submitting work on a daily basis and not missing any lessons. We would therefore ask that all parents support the school in setting routines to support your child’s education and reiterate our expectations.

Pupils’ engagement with remote education will be checked daily, via attendance of live lessons and/or the submission of online work.

Parents and carers will be informed of their child’s engagement level on a daily basis via parent mail.

Feedback can take many forms and may not always mean extensive written comments for individual children. Our approach to feeding back on pupil work is as follows:
The school uses a variety of different methods to assess and feedback on pupils’ work. These include:

• Quizzes marked automatically via google classroom
• Individual written feedback
  Immediate feedback via live lessons
• Whole-class feedback
• As a minimum, pupils will receive feedback in line with the school marking and feedback policy. Although, each quiz will include feedback in terms of automatically marked feedback.

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 the difficulties this may place on families, and we will work with parents and carers to support those pupils in the following ways:

• 1-2-1 teaching via google meet.
• Providing additional resources and materials
• Providing alternative work

If you have any concerns, please contact our SEND department by telephone 0161 681 1592.

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 your child is not in school as they are self-isolating, the school will ensure these pupils have access to a planned and well-sequenced curriculum with meaningful and ambitious work set for their period of self-isolation, within 24 hours of being informed.

All work will be set via google classroom and will cover all subjects the pupil studies in school. Pupils will be expected to work through this independently.

Feedback will be provided via quizzes marked automatically. Although in some instances, for example in Art, pupils will be asked to submit work to individual class teachers once they return to school.