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A guide to your remote learning timetable.
As you continue your learning journey with your child, it is going to be extremely important that you keep to a routine at home. Children should be encouraged to wake up at a similar time to when they would have been whilst attending school
and likewise the times in which they eat should remain the same. This will help them structure the routine of their school work around a normal functioning day.
Below we have detailed the expected amount of hours the children should be completing their remote learning, suggesting how long (approximately) they
should take on sessions during the day.
The remote education provided should be equivalent in length to the core teaching pupils would receive in school and will include both recorded or live
direct teaching time, and time for pupils to complete tasks and work independently.
Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS):
Expected amount of time: Up to 3 hours a day: Typical day –
1 hour – Phonics and writing tasks set daily and any enhanced learning tasks such as phonics play games or setting up a shop for role play incorporating reading/writing skills learnt in that lesson.
1 hour – Mathematics tasks set and enhanced learning such as cooking, Mathletics or setting up enhanced learning whereby the learnt skills can be applied, for example using money in role play shop to buy items and give change.
2 30 minutes – Topic or PE or Music or other.
Session Time spent on session
Ways to encourage increased participation Phonics 30 minutes Games, games and more games. Children
love to compete and win so, let them! The engagement and soaking up learning reaches another level when it is fun so, think of
games on the spot or stick to a favourite. Add in a puppet of your own as a Phonics helper. A fast pace, energetic learning environment works wonders!
A timer. Sharing how long you will spend on a task helps children know the expectations. Keep a timer away from the learning to avoid a countdown but a constant reference point will help children and can also aid in giving them two minutes only to say all of the flashcards. Teachers would be lost without a timer!
Could you incorporate some enhanced learning activities at home to support the learning? Having just learnt about the sh digraph for example, could you set up a shop for role play and children have to write
shopping lists for customers, practising the sh sound each time they write.
English - Writing
30 minutes Practising applying your writing skills as part of your Phonics lesson is a must. Ensure this is a successful process and encourage independence as much as possible. Celebrate independence over
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dramatically. When they write the learnt sound – ai in rain for example jump up and dance in celebration. Although embarrassed, they will love writing more and more. Maintain high standards. We would like to see neat, appropriately sized, correctly formed letters on the line with spaces between words, capitals, full plops, the lot! Children will try to be lazy here if we let them!
Reading 30 minutes Share your own excitement for reading. “I cannot wait to find out what happens, ooo I love this book”.
Discuss the beginning, middle and end. Ask many varied questions about the plot. Why do you think she said that? What do think might happen next, why? How else could the story have ended?
Enjoy it together and encourage paced reading that they are listening to as they read. They need to understand the story even if they are reading slowly sounding out and blending to read words. This is a skill all by itself!
Maths 30 minutes Repetition is important, so make it fun. Count down from 20 to blast off, starting at random numbers. Use concrete
materials from around your home to touch and feel the learning. 5 bananas plus another 2 bananas?... I can show you that mum and dad!
Matheletics tasks
30 minutes Children should be completing tasks with increasing independence. This is a
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naturally engaging tool but the EYFS section can be somewhat limited. Enjoy the competition games too.
Physical education
30 minutes Back to games and more games. A playful but safe PE game will mean the children do not even realise they have just
completed PE. Your own excitement and build up to…’we are going to play a game’ will have them with wide eyes if you make it fun! A very simple warm up jogging on the spot can get the pulse racing in a fun way…when I say jump, you don’t jump you sit down. When I say sit down, you don’t, you jump up, all while still jogging on the spot!
Topic 30 minutes You can be creative here. Who doesn’t like being proud of creating something. In our recent learning about people who work at night children will be drawn to the creating police hats to act out scenes with you. Or drawing their own
emergency road signs for acting out a ‘save the cat from the tree’ scene!
Key Stage One:
Expected amount of time: 3 hours a day on average across the cohort, with less for younger children
5 Session Time spent
on session
Ways to encourage increased participation Phonics 30 minutes Let the children complete the work on
whiteboards as this is often less daunting for them. Make use of you YouTube by simply typing in the sound that was in the phonics lesson and adding “for kids” e.g. ow sound for kids
Treasure hunt; get your child to find objects in the house or garden that have the focus
sound in their name.
Beat the Clock; see if your child can write down words in the slides in a given amount of time.
Bingo; tricky word bingo. Use the children common exception words to play bingo. English 1 hour Clock; give them a timer so they can see how
long they have left and therefor know when they can finish and have break.
Blocks; don’t make them complete an entire task in one sitting. If they are struggling, then let them have a break or do it in 10 minute blocks.
Highlighters; kids love highlighters! Set them a task after they have completed the work e.g. highlight all the adjectives they can see. Outside the box; pick your battles if it’s a
written task and you can see they are not in the right mind-set to write then let them act it out and take a photo to stick in, or draw it or you scribe for them.
Maths 1 hour Resources; use what you have in your house to make as many tasks physical as possible
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(pasta can be used for most tasks!)
Games; use online maths games linked to the days topic. Hit the Button, Top Marks and Mathletics.
Active; YouTube has loads of great maths videos that involve singing and dancing and jumping about and the kids love them. Challenge; time them and keep a score each
time for them to beat on things like times tables, number bonds, counting in 2’s etc. Foundation 1 hour Follow their lead; as long as you understand
the lesson objective (the main thing to be learnt from the task e.g. what a habitat is) then go with the child, if they are not engaged in the set task but would like to research using a computer or write a fact file etc then go with it as long as the main learning is understood it doesn’t matter how you get there.
Relatives; get them to write a quiz for a relative or ring them and them to tell the child everything they know about the topic. Reading 20 mins Zoom; get them to zoom/face time a relative
and read to them.
Interest; let them read about things they are interested in, look on amazon and order books about unicorns or motorbikes.
Speed Read; set them a challenge to read a certain amount of words in a set time and see if they can improve it.
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1 hour – English task set daily. Will include an input / guided session to work through, additional video clips to support when appropriate and an independent task to complete. Over the week activities will vary and aim to include spelling rules, “word of the week” activities, SPAG, reading comprehensions and writing opportunities.
10 -15 minutes – Spellings.
1 hour – Maths tasks set daily focusing on specific topics and recapping past topics and skills. To include an input / guided session to work through with questions to answer on whiteboards or jot down in maths books, links to interactive games which will support the lesson focus when appropriate and a selection of challenges to pick from for the independent task.
15 – 20 minutes – Mathletics activities / Maths Quick Recall skills (Number bonds to 20, 100, Times Tables) & Arithmetic practise.
30 minutes – Reading daily which can be split into two shorter sessions.
1 hour – Topic / P.E. or other. Over the week, activities will cover all subject areas just as we would in the afternoon sessions in school. There will usually be two activities uploaded for a day i.e. Science & French, but on occasion there may only be one, if the task involved will take longer to complete.
Session Time spent on session
Ways to encourage increased participation English 1 hour Self-marking – what can the children spot in
their writing that would get a pink tick if they were at school? Get the highlighters out and encourage them to look for great features in their writing.
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spellings (using a dictionary / thesaurus - available online) and punctuation, improve vocabulary choices, different ways to start their sentences, adjectives used to describe nouns etc
Lots of praise. Notice if they’ve tried hard with their presentation, used interesting words, joined their handwriting, been focused on the task etc and give them that extra big verbal boost they might really need right now. Share their writing – when writing a story or
descriptive piece get them to read it aloud to someone at home or share it with a family member on Face Time or Zoom, upload for us to see– children love to share their
achievements.
Word games can be a nice addition but still with an English focus: Games such as boggle, scrabble, hangman, articulate all encourage word making or description and can offer a much needed break.
Adapt – some days will be more challenging than others. Please don’t feel worried about changing how the children complete a task or breaking the activity into sections. There will be occasions when an activity could be completed verbally, just on a whiteboard, practically with photos taken or on the computer rather than writing. If needed activities can be
Spellings 10 -15 minutes
New spellings are set every Thursday with a test the following week. Practise these words, complete spelling activities that are sent out
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via Google classroom and use words within sentences.
Word of the week – children should try and use this word as much as possible at home, together with the synonyms and antonyms to develop their bank of words.
Maths 1 hour Self marking their work using the power point slides and then can made any corrections necessary.
Using APE (Answer it Prove it Explain it) to help develop their mathematical thinking. Ask the children, “How do they know? Prove it!” “Can you show me that in another way?” “What resources could you use to prove that answer?” Use any resources you have to hand at home
for children to practise skills & or solve problems Mathletics / Arithmetic & Quick Recall
15-20 minutes Practise times tables using Multiplication Mountain sheets or online games such as Hit the Button which is also great for quick recall of number bonds and fact families.
Use Mathletics & other online, interactive games to cover a variety of topics and as revision of skills learnt.
Reading 30 minutes This can be broken up into two parts.
Consider15 minutes of children reading to you and 15 minutes of sharing a book together at another point in the day.
Questions - Ask questions about what is happening in the plot, why a character is acting the way they are or why they are saying what they, how the character might be feeling and why. What do think might happen next,
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why? How else could the story have ended? Find different word types in the text: nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs. Discuss the meaning of new words, think of words which have a similar meaning to a word in the text.
Enjoy a book together that is slightly beyond what they could read alone; this is a great way for children to keep building their bank of vocabulary.
Zoom; get them to zoom/face time a relative and read to them.
Interest; let them read about things they are interested in, look on amazon and order books about unicorns or motorbikes.
Speed Read for fluency; set a challenge to read a certain amount of words in a set time and see if they can improve it.
Topic / P.E. Science etc
1 hour Follow their lead; as long as you understand the lesson objective (the main thing to be learnt from the task e.g. what a habitat is) then go with the child, if they are not engaged in the set task but would like to research using a computer or write a fact file etc then go with it as long as the main learning is understood it doesn’t matter how you get there.
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Expected amount of time: 4 hours a day Typical day –
1 hour – English. Over the week this will cover spelling rules, “word of the week” activities, SPAG sessions, reading comprehensions and learning writing styles / genres.
1 hour 15mins – Maths: we will build on our learning of specific topics, as well as revising and revisiting past subjects. Arithmetic will be in addition to the Maths lesson, where quick fire tables / mental maths knowledge will be recapped and revised.
30 minutes – Reading daily, to include listening to the class text as well as independent reading at home.
1 hour – Topic, Science or Creative Write, each afternoon. In addition there will be RE and PSHE/ RSE lessons over the week.
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Please don’t worry if there are days when things don’t quite click – the best teaching you can do at home is to offer, praise, encouragement and support. Session Time spent
on session
Ways to encourage increased participation English 1 hour Children are expected to check their work using ETIW
(every time I write), this will mean:
* editing for spellings (using a dictionary / thesaurus which they can do online)
* making sure they have used accurate punctuation, full stops (are some of the sentences too long?), exclamation marks, question marks after a question, using commas not just for a list but to split up sentences and as parenthesis
* improving their writing, using semi colons, colons, ellipsis – experimenting with punctuation
* avoiding repetition of the same words: find synonyms and use these instead!!
Other activities to extend can be playing games: such as boggle, scrabble, how many words can you make from the word “Outstanding” (for example)
Class book 15 mins Every day the next part in the class text will be posted. Children are expected to listen and keep up to date. If you can encourage your child to listen and talk about the book this will develop their understanding. If there are any words your child isn’t sure of the meaning, please do encourage them to use a dictionary, talk to you and develop their vocabulary bank.
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minutes
As normal, children are required to read at home. We have provided some reading books and will also be pointing to online texts that are available at present. Weekly
spellings
5 minutes daily
Spellings are set every Thursday with a test the following week. Children should learn these daily, there are an abundance of spelling apps to help with this! But if you are stuck or would like some tips please feel free to get in touch.
Word of the week – children should try and use this word as much as possible at home, together with the synonyms and antonyms to develop their bank of words. Maths 1 hour Children are required to mark their work and make any
corrections. If there is a specific issue with any questions please e mail Mrs Jones on ash@hopton.suffolk.sch.uk We use APE (Answer it Prove it Explain it) to try and encourage children to explain their mathematical thinking.
Ask the children, “How do they know? Prove it!”
Extension tasks can be to use the learning from the day in a contextual sense – think of a word problem for them, ask them to prove it in a different way (can they use counters – draw dots / diennes – draw symbols to be diennes / show the problem using a bar method?) Arithmetic
practise
15 minutes
Once marked, children can practise their times tables / use Mathletics to cover a variety of topics and act as revision.
Topic
Creative write 4 topic sessions 1 Creative write
1 hour Children are expected to spend some time researching around the topic, sharing what they find out with the class so we can develop a more in-depth understanding of the topic together – building on their interests!
As with all writing they should be using the ETIW criteria – ensuring beautiful presentation in everything that they do, as well as editing spellings, punctuation and aiming
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to improve their work. PE – two 1 hour
sessions per week
15 mins Please encourage your child to be as active as possible everyday (within the current guidance). On top of the weekly lesson provided by Mr Wooler, children can use online sessions, such as the 3 live weekly sessions by Joe Wicks, or just long walks with the family!
RE
PSHE/ RSE Two 45 minute sessions per week
15 mins To extend these sessions, children can talk to you about the concepts covered, undertake their own research or think about their own, “I wonder..?” questions to share with the class.
