Dear parents

In order to deal safely and effectively with the latest development in the fight against the pandemic, and to ensure the health of our pupils, families and teachers, we have been asked to keep our children at home. As parents, can I ask that your child is offered support, not only for a suitable working environment, but that they are provided with adequate rest and exercise breaks during this period.

In order to enrich the children's home life, the Nest has developed a teaching plan to support further learning and our e-learning programme has been started. We are confident that, given our expertise as a Microsoft Showcase school and our prior experience in 2020, we will continue to maintain the high standards and expectations around teaching and learning.

The following gives an overview 

of the expectations of e-Learning

• You will receive a timetable for this week from your class teacher and will give timings and a learning focus for each taught session. The children will have a follow up task to do offline after each session. We have considered the everyday objects children will have available in the home.

• We have adjusted the online session times to ensure they are age appropriate. We know young children are not designed to sit in front of a device for long periods of time. Our timetables for the different year groups reflects this.

• We will ensure there are lots of opportunities for movement and active learning 

• Class registration will take place at 8:45 every morning and we will monitor who is online for every session during the day. This will allow us to track who has missed learning and will need to catch up when we return to school.

• Pupils will need access to a device so that they can engage with the teaching and learning.