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Abersychan School
Guide to Home Learning
(including Home Learning Timetables)

In this guide, you will find information about Home Learning at Abersychan School, class timetables and what you can expect if a class or year group has to self isolate for a period of time.

This guide will give information on what happens if a year group must self-isolate and also when pupils have to self-isolate?

It also explains your home-learning timetable
•      What is it?
•      When will it start?
•      How will it work?
What do we mean by self-isolation?
A pupil will have to self-isolate for one 3 reasons (duration in red):
Scenario 1 – Pupil self-isolating from school awaiting COVID test result
Scenario 2 – A child is self-isolating due to positive test result (14 day period)
Scenario 3 – A teaching group or a year group are self-isolating due to positive test result (14 day period)

What happens if a pupil is isolating?
Provision of work will be determined by the nature of the pupil’s isolation:

Scenario 1: Learners have access to the work that has been set and are able to complete it. Appropriate teaching material is being uploaded to Google Classroom by teachers. Suitable feedback is given to pupils. The Head of Year will make contact with pupils to check wellbeing and ensure engagement in learning.

Scenario 2: Pupils will be advised to follow their normal timetable and work on isolation tasks that have been set within each subject’s Google Classroom.
The format of this work will include digital resources, workbook activities or reading tasks. Pupils should also have an opportunity to ‘chat’ to their subject teacher during the period of self isolation. The Head of Year will make contact with pupils to check wellbeing and ensure engagement in learning.

Scenario 3: Pupils isolating as part of a full teaching group / year group isolation will switch to their home learning timetable. This timetable mirrors the normal timetable that a pupil follows in terms of times of lessons etc.

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Home learning timetable: What is it?

Your home learning timetable will match your normal timetable and lessons will take place at the same time as if you were in school.

There will be 3 types of lesson format:

Live lesson: A lesson held in Google Meet that will be led by the teacher. The lesson should be interactive allowing you to ask questions and for pupils to ask you teacher questions.

Webinar: A video / presentation / lecture where the teacher will explain a new topic. There should be opportunities for you to take notes and possibly answer written questions.

Self-study: During a self-study lesson, pupils will work on your own on any tasks set by their teacher. Details of this work will be communicated through Google Classroom and the teacher will be available online to support learning.

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Home learning timetable

Things to consider as a teacher

Live lesson: You will need to explain your live lesson protocols to your class and show them how to navigate your Google Classroom.

Webinar: Your webinar could be delivered live with chat functions enabled or pre-recorded (using Loom) and broadcast at the scheduled time. Webinars may be more general, explore wider learning opportunities and be centrally produced within a department. However, they may also be specific to a teaching group and topic.

Self-study: Self-study sessions will be times when pupils will be working on tasks and activities that have been set by you. You should be available to support learners, but not necessarily delivering or teaching the session.

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Behaviour for Learning Guide

We expect the very same high standards of behaviour during “live online” lessons at home as we would with “face to face” lessons here in school.

Our normal behaviour for learning expectations apply alongside the additional guidance (see below) to ensure that all pupils are...

Ready to learn

Dos and Don’ts for Online Learning
It is the school’s expectation that all pupils engaging in blended online learning follow these guidelines carefully. This will help ensure that all staff and young people remain safe online, and will help ensure that everyone is able to get the most out of the online learning experience.

Google Classroom Tutorials

Below are a range of video tutorials on several aspects of Google Classroom. They are to help you to have a better knowledge of Google Classroom and help parents support their children with their home learning. They are called,

'All you need to know about.......'

Accessing Google Classroom through HWB

Home Learning timetable
What will it look like?
In key stages 3 and 4 there are individual timetables for each teaching group. In the timetable, highlighted in yellow will be the lessons that are ‘live lessons’ that will be delivered by the subject teacher. Approximately 50% of lessons are live lessons. The remainder of the lessons are a mixture or recorded ‘webinars’ and ‘self-study’ sessions.
The home learning timetable will begin 24 hours after a year group has to begin to self-isolate. This means that if a year group begins self-isolation on a Tuesday, the timetable will begin on Thursday of the same week. Below is an example of a Home Learning timetable:

Home Learning Timetables
Sessions Highlighted in yellow are ‘live lessons’

The remaining sessions are a mixture of ‘webinars’

and ‘self-study’ as directed by the subject teacher.

On the following pages are the timetables for all teaching groups in years 7-11. Included in these timetables are scheduled form time where form groups will meet once weekly through Google Meet. These sessions are also highlighted in yellow.

An attendance register will be taken for every lesson to help us monitor pupil engagement in home learning. It is vitally important that pupils attend all of their lessons remotely in the same way they would be expected to attend all lessons in school.

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