Our teachers have received the feedback you gave in the remote learning survey and some of the items you brought to our attention are already being addressed, particularly if it was issues around technology or more personal problems with motivation or your particular child’s experience with home learning. Year groups are meeting together to look at their feedback and work on strategies to keep improving our remote learning offer.

One item that came up was the deadline for the end of the day. Some people like this, some people don’t! The first reason we put in a deadline for 3.30pm was to give the children a feeling of ‘the end of the school day’ so that they didn’t feel that they had to be doing school work later than that. Some parents and carers have also reported that it helps their child with motivation. Another reason for the deadline is so that our teachers can mark and feedback in a timely manner and so that they can plan the following day’s lesson with the learning from that day in mind - you might have seen that teachers often comment on yesterday’s learning or pick up on misconceptions and mistakes so that they can correct and address them. We are very happy to reset the submission deadline for 4:00pm. Please understand that if your child hands in a piece of work after this, they will not be penalised but the work might not be marked until the following day. We are fully aware of the immense pressure some families are under when adults are working from home and children are learning at home and always seek to smooth the path as much as we can whilst maintaining the high expectations we always have for your children and their learning. Please encourage your children to submit work as soon as it is completed, rather than wait until later in the day. Thank you.

Thank you very much to more than a hundred parents and carers who took the time to complete our survey about our remote  learning offer. We have been overwhelmed by the support you have shown in aiding your children to access their education in this new and different way, and we are thrilled that it seems to be working so well for so many of our families. The fact that over 99% of you told us you thought our remote provision was good or very good was incredibly

heartening to our teachers. If you indicated, in the survey, that you would like to be contacted by school, someone will contact you sometime over the next few days.

 

Back at the beginning of this term, you will be aware that the government made a very last minute  announcement about school closures. Several Surrey schools took the decision to have an emergency INSET day on Monday 4th January. As we had already scheduled an INSET for this Monday, we did not need to do this. However, looking ahead to half term, we currently have an INSET arranged for Friday 12th February. In light of the fact that the government have indicated that schools will close until half term, we feel it is more sensible to move our INSET day to Monday 22nd February in case an announcement is made over half term that requires significant re-organisation on the Monday. Given that there is no travel at the moment, we hope that this change does not inconvenience you. However, please do get in touch if this causes any problems and you are a frontline NHS worker (for instance if work rotas have been planned well in advance). This change will mean that remote learning will be set on Friday 12th February, but not on Monday 22nd February.