A special thank you to all the parents who responded to our second online survey about Remote Learning, Key worker support and Engage programme. As a school, we took stock of the views of different partners during the first lockdown and put revised strategies in place to support the children through remote and connected activities since January. 

Please see the summary of parents’ responses to the recent survey. We really appreciate the many positive statements about parents’ appreciation for the commitment of staff for remote learning, keyworker support and the Engage programme. The survey represents a very strong endorsement of the:

• school’s remote learning strategy,
• targeted nature of individualised programmes of work for children of different abilities,
• balance between pre-prepared written packs and online guidance and tutorials via Seesaw,
• high quality communication between teachers and parents,
• creative strategies used to keep children motivated,
• support for keyworker families as well as SEN and children with special circumstances,
• consideration for underachieving children through the engage programme.

The survey also highlights that:

• Internet connectivity remains a significant issue for over 27% of our families. This has increased from 12% in the first survey. Perhaps this is because expectations have increased or we are using video links more which exposes the extent of the connection issues locally,
• access to devices remains an issue for 20% of families, however, this has decreased from 31% in the previous survey,
• parents report that 63% of children are coping well with the restrictions of the lockdown, this is lower than the previous survey when 79% were coping well with the restrictions.
• over 50% of parents feel that their children require less help from them during this second lockdown because of the support from teachers,

There was praise also for the quality of teachers’ feedback and different views about the potential for ‘live’ sessions. There is a longing for the return to face-to-face’ teaching by everyone and a number of suggestions about how we can further improve our online learning strategies should the period of remote learning be extended.

There were many supportive comments from parents with the following words used frequently: outstanding, amazing, excellent, fantastic, supportive, well-though out, phenomenal, brilliant and absolute professionalism.’  

There was praise also for the quality of teachers’ feedback and different views about the potential for ‘live’ sessions, a longing for the return to face-to-face’ teaching, are a number of suggestions should the period of remote learning be extended.