Westdene Primary School & Nursery

It is the role and responsibility of the School to have the capacity to offer immediate remote education and give access to high-quality remote education resources when a pupil needs to self-isolate, or there is a local lockdown requiring all pupils to remain at home. The school has selected online tools that will be consistently used across Year Groups in order to allow interaction, assessment and feedback when working remotely.  These are as follows:

The School may loan devices to families or provide printed resources and workbooks for pupils who do not have suitable online access at home. 

When teaching pupils remotely, we undertake to:

• set assignments so that pupils have meaningful and ambitious work each day in a number of different subjects
• teach a well-sequenced curriculum so that knowledge and skills are built incrementally, with a good level of clarity about what is intended to be taught and practised in each subject
• provide frequent, clear explanations of new content through high-quality curriculum resources and/or videos or webinars
• gauge how well pupils are progressing through the curriculum, using questions and other suitable tasks with a clear expectation on how regularly work will be checked
• adjust the pace or difficulty of what is being taught in response to questions or assessments, including, where necessary, revising material or simplifying explanations to ensure pupils’ understanding.
• plan a programme that is of equivalent length to the core teaching pupils would receive in school, ideally including daily contact with teachers