Remote Learning Support for Primary Consortia: please sign up
WCC Funded Support for Remote Learning for Primary Schools
Please see
here (a .pptx file will be downloaded automatically) for an explanation of the funded support offer which consists of:
- training available to all schools - sign up for the first session on Tuesday 20th October
'Using Digital Teaching to Improve Learning' - Tuesday 20th October,15.30 to 16.30 - Please click this link to join the session.
IMPORTANT - up to two colleagues can attend from each school but please connect to the meeting on only one device shared between the two users.
- financial contribution from WCC towards providing 18 half day sessions per consortium 'expert user' to support other schools in the consortium for the period from now until the Easter holidays
- training for the identified 'expert users' .
Please note:
- half day cover is funded at £100 per half day
- we will fund release for two expert users from consortia with 14 or more schools. They are as follows: Consortium 1; Consortium 2; Consortium 5; Consortium 7; Consortium 8B; Consortium 9; Consortium 11; Consortium 18
- please use the link embedded in the above explanation of the project to register the names of your chosen subject users.
Thanks to Harvey Woodall for a clear explanation of how blended learning and remote learning work together:
'blended learning is where remote learning is used alongside traditional classroom methods, ideally on a day-to-day basis. The key benefit of this approach is that schools appreciate the learning potential of remote learning systems and don't just regard them as a means to an end in the event of a lockdown. Additionally, where schools start using remote learning now, embedded as part of their daily teaching (in a blended approach), if/when a lockdown occurs, the transition to full remote learning will be much easier as both staff and pupils will be familiar with it. The other really important point is that, given the Government's stance on keeping schools open, a full remote experience is actually far less likely than a mixed scenario of some remote and some classroom, i.e. blended learning'