Primary schools zoom learning

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/gardai-investigating-after-inappropriate-men-got-into-online-class-for-school-children-39970606.html

This shouldn't be happening.

So first week of remote learning 2021 is complete. It went much better this time round. I'm happy with the work and contact from my kids teachers. Work is allocated on dojo accompanied by a short video. I couldn't ask for any more - it works for us.
My eldest girl is dyslexic and needs my help to get through the workload. The younger girl is only 6 and although she flies through the work needs my help on guiding her what to do next. So neither can work independently. Only issues I have is:

- we have to upload pictures of all the kids work even though the teachers aren't correcting or offering feedback on. ( Which in fairness is fine as it's only primary school stuff). From speaking with other parents we worked out that kids who send all their worke in are commented on as ''participating" whereas kids who don't send everything in have no comments. Work needs only to be uploaded it seems to check compliance. This seems a bit unfair and is giving us WFH parents more work to do. Surely a better way of doing this would be for the teacher to every Friday randomly select 3 items of work from the week for parents to upload to check compliance if necessary.

- today my 6 year got a complicated art task to complete. Unfortunately due to work commitments today I did not have time to do this with her which resulted in her crying. I understand that the teacher thinks she is being helpful suggesting this but for WFH parents it is hard to supervise this. I emailed the teacher that we couldn't get to it today but will over the weekend. I suggested that next week she could put it as a weekend task so kids don't get disappointed if we can't do it on the day teacher says.

Any way I'm wrecked trying to keep up with schoolwork, work and housework. I'm going to pour myself a nice glass of wine.

mirrorwall14 wrote: »

The last two days have been a bit better for us. Childminder has paired the two of them up on English phonics which is fine as he needs the writing practise too and he watches the dojo videos once through with her. I’m watching them in between my own work during they and then when he gets we tackle anything that didn’t get done.

Today that was writing out the nuacht (omg his concentration took like half an hour....), two new tricky words (but he had seen the video already so this was quick), rechecked his English phonics and his story. There were eleven different activities with about 50 minutes of loom videos which is way too much for me to go through in the evenings so I’m targeting.

Its getting done. More or less. And I’ll try and fill in the gaps at the weekends

Also my house is a disgrace too. Top to bottom. I am resigned to this until lockdown ends

I told mine on zoom today no catching up on anything missed at the weekend. Weekends are for families.

Incase parents didn't hear or didn't believe the kids I also sent an email stating same.