Remote Learning

This is an outline of the remote learning provision at GGS in the event of a whole school or complete year group lockdown We aim to provide clarity of expectations for students and parents, including general expectations and key stage specific details.

General guidance

  • Each lesson, or over a series of lessons, there should be elements of a blended learning approach that the teacher feels is most appropriate to the particular lesson. This could include: recorded videos of explanatory guidance detailing: tasks, the modelling of expectations and the success criteria; the final product or solution. All lesson elements will be made accessible to students retrospectively and for refresher purposes. Live delivery elements through a Google meet link could seek to: start students off; have a live Q+A half way through the session to ensure that students understand the work; provide a plenary - have a live Q+A at the end of session to assess that the students have understood the work and there are no gaps; facilitate a small group seminar - supporting a specific group of students; open mic - open a live stream through sections or the entirety of your lesson where students can ask questions without input from the teacher.
  • Where new material is covered in a live environment teachers are asked to record the session so that it is accessible to students retrospectively and for refresher purposes.
  • Pre-recorded explanatory videos to support learning remain highly valuable as they are accessible at all times for students. This is most useful if students are sharing equipment or have limited online access.
  • Lessons will be planned so that they are adapted for, and appropriate to, remote provision, personalised to each class.  As such the lessons should not only consist of a simple upload of classroom based, unadapted resources.
  • Teachers will use Google Classroom for the on-line organisation of work. Submission of work should be consistent within each subject and what students are used to.
  • Teachers will be available at the time of their lessons to respond to student queries. This could be via email or through a live meeting.
  • Work set within the lesson should have a clear and reasonable deadline. 
  • Teachers will check that set work is completed – follow up with students and parents, as necessary, for persistent offenders.  Where there are continuing difficulties, staff will follow up through the normal expected channels (Subject Leader intervention, Tutor contacts home, HoKS or AHoKS intervention).
  • Assessments can be set and associated Completing the Cycle activities - as they would be, if students were physically in school.

Tutor Time:

  • KS3/4 tutors will hold a google meet tutor session at 8:25am on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 
  • KS5 tutors to run a weekly tutor time on Monday at 13:00.
  • Work will be scheduled for/set at the time the lesson would ordinarily start in school.
  • Work set for each lesson will be equivalent to the amount expected to be covered in 40/45 minutes. No additional homework will be set.
  • Discussion with students suggested that they have found work packs useful, with all resources in one place. Some staff may use this approach.
  • Work is to be submitted in a way that is consistent for each subject. Students who prefer to handwrite work will be able to do so and upload photos as evidence of completion.
  • Students may be set quizzes / quiz check activities with immediate feedback as they have told us that this gives them more confidence and a feeling of certainty about their learning.
  • Lessons and the associated resources will be set at the time of the lesson as per the students' timetable. This relates to any 'live' elements of the lesson activities.
  • Teachers will set the same level of work they would expect in the classroom including homework.
  • Students in year 11 will not be able to complete any exams at home that feed into the trial exam grade.
  • Lesson material will either be:
    • Set at the start of the week for all lessons in the week.
    • Set at the start of the day for the lesson on that day.
  • This provides greater flexibility for sixth form students to manage their own time.
  • Teachers will set the same level of work they would expect in the classroom including homework, following up where necessary.
  • Teachers will continue to make explicit the independent learning expectations of students and follow up where necessary.
  • Students in year 13 will not complete any exams at home that feed into the trial exam grade.
  • Tutors in year 13 will continue to support their students through the UCAS process up until the school deadline of Friday 11th December.