Tier 1 is when the school is open to all students but some students are having to complete their learning from home due to shielding or self-isolating as a response to exposure to Coronavirus.

Remote Learning Platform

We use Microsoft Teams as our remote learning platform which can be downloaded here – CLICK HERE TO ACCESS

Here’s a short video on how to install and access Teams across multiple devices – CLICK HERE TO ACCESS

To log in to Teams and Office 365 students should use their school email address and password.

Independent Learning

We support our students to work independently with audio PowerPoints in which our teachers deliver instructions and explanations on the work that students should be completing at home, and through online resources. These lessons and resources are saved by the teacher in Student Resources in Office SharePoint.

Here’s a direct link to our SharePoint – CLICK HERE TO ACCESS

Within SharePoint students need to:

• Select the subject that they are due to be working on

  

• Select their year group

  

• Select the Remote Learning folder
  
• Select the current week (the folders are given the date for the Monday of the week)
  
• Complete the work in this folder and upload completed work to their Class Notebook on Teams.

Here’s a short video on how to use some of the Class Notebook features – CLICK HERE TO ACCESS

Suggested Timetable of Learning

We suggest that students follow the following timetables to structure their home learning:

Click on your year to view the timetable.
Year 7     Year 8     Year 9    Year 10     Year 11

Tier 2 is when the government decide that we need to follow a rota system of attendance with some students in school and some learning from home.

Within Tier 2 HLC will ensure that students learning at home continue to make good progress in their learning through:

• Lessons on Teams.
• PowerPoints with spoken explanations and instructions by HLC teachers and activities for students to complete.
• Access to online learning tools, such as Kerboodle, Oak Academy, Active Learn and GCSE Pod.
• Formative assessments through quizzes and self-assessment.

Curriculum Offer – 5 hours or more hours of learning per day for Y7 - 11

Year 7 - 9:

• 2 Teams lessons per day
• 2 independent study sessions per day
• 1 Teams Form Time per day
• 1 physical activity session per day

Year 10 & 11:

• 3 Teams lessons per day
• 2 independent study sessions per day
• 1 Teams Form Time per day
• 1 physical activity session per day

The Learning

All learning is delivered through Microsoft Teams.

All subjects:

• Teach a planned and well-sequenced curriculum so that knowledge and skills are built steadily.
• Are clear on what they intend to teach and what skills or knowledge they want our students to practise so that pupils can progress through the curriculum.
• Provide frequent, clear explanations on new content, delivered by a teacher through high-quality curriculum resources.
• Provide opportunities for interactivity, including questioning and discussion.
• Provide scaffolded practice and opportunities to apply new knowledge.
• Does not rely on long-term projects or internet research activities.

Research shows that students make most progress in remote learning when there is a mix of live lessons with their teacher and independent study sessions that they can complete at their own pace.
Independent study lessons include narrated PowerPoints in which a specialist teacher talks through and explains the work.

Submitting work

Where possible, students complete work in Class Notebook. This allows their teacher to monitor their progress and provide feedback on assessed tasks.
If students are unable to access Class Notebook, they can email their work to their teacher.

Assessment and Feedback

Assessment is a key element of teaching and learning as it informs the teacher whether students have understood the core knowledge and are ready to build on their learning, or whether they have misunderstood the knowledge and it needs to be re-taught.

All subjects therefore:

• Provide timely and frequent feedback on how to progress, using whole-class feedback where appropriate.
• Use assessment to ensure that teaching is responsive to students’ needs and addresses any critical gaps in pupils’ knowledge.

To assess our students, we use the following systems:

• Weekly low-stakes quizzes delivered through Microsoft Teams or subject specific e-resources.
• Planned assessed tasks that are given formal feedback by the teacher.

Wellbeing

The wellbeing of our students is hugely important. To support student’s wellbeing the following is in place:

• Daily Form Time over Teams
• Year 7 – 9 lessons blocked together to help them with organisation.
• Teams lessons are 45 minutes to give students time for a break between sessions.
• Work set using Teams classes so that it is easy to find.
• Physical activity session every day so that children continuing to remain fit and active to support their mental and physical wellbeing.
• Continuation of our counselling programme.
• A planned programme of wellbeing activities and opportunities coordinated by our Mental Health Lead.
• Wellbeing questionnaires for our students and parents to help us identify potential concerns and patterns which will then be responded to as appropriate.
• The sharing (website and social media) of HLC wellbeing email address for students and families to communicate wellbeing concerns with us.
• The sharing of information and resources via our website and social media that will support students and also support our families to support their children.
• Increased contact and support from staff where this is identified as a need.
• A programme of weekly assemblies.
• Delivery of the PSHCE curriculum.
  

Rewards and Consequences

• Engagement in monitored through live lesson interaction, uploading work to Class Notebook and via weekly knowledge quizzes. All live lessons include a register of students attending.
• Rewards are given for attendance to live lessons, completion of work, completion of quizzes and additional rewards are given for excellent sustained effort.
• If you child misses a live lesson, you will receive a text message informing you.
• If your child does not engage positively in lessons e.g., poor behaviour via chat, the teacher will follow our behaviour policy and log the behaviour. They may call home to discuss the behaviour and on rare occasions may be blocked from the live lesson. In this situation, your child will be able to complete their study using a recording of the live lesson.