Online & Remote Learning
At The Florence Nightingale Academy we are proud of our remote learning offer. We have worked hard with parents to evaluate the online capacity of all our children and we have been able to provide school loan laptops to families to ensure everyone can access our online learning offer.
Our remote learning curriculum is closely aligned to what children would have been doing in school if they were in attendance. Children in our Key Worker bubbles also complete the same work as children at home. The curriculum will be delivered in a variety of ways: recorded videos, online work, relevant websites or other video clips etc. This means that all children are having the same learning experiences at the same time and we hope that this will make coming back to school when it fully reopens, much easier.
Logins for the different systems have been emailed out to parents. If your login isn’t working or you can’t remember how to log on, please let us know by contacting the school office and they will be able to resend them.
Our main learning tool for everyone in Years 1-6 is Seesaw. Each class has their own portal where class teachers and staff are posting daily learning activities. Children can post work, videos, comments and edit their own work. Staff can also comment on and edit children’s work.
In Foundation Stage (Nursery & Reception children), our online learning is delivered through Tapestry. Staff and parents can login to view work.
Children use Purple Mash for ICT lessons and to embed their computing and digital skills across the curriculum. Staff can set tasks for children to complete in a fun and engaging way.
In school, children also use the Times Table Rockstars app in class to practice their timetables – we have weekly Rock Star Champions displayed in the hall.
Further Information
We’ve put together this collection of other links and resources that you may find useful.
For adults:
- NSPCC | The UK Children’s Charity
- CEOP | Child Exploitation and Online Protection
- Internet Matters | Information, Advice and Support to Keep Children Safe Online
- Anti-Bullying Alliance | United Against Bullying
For children:
- Childline | A Free, Private and Confidential Service Where You Can Talk About Anything
- Be Internet Legends | How to be Safe and Confident Online
- Thinkuknow | Stay Safe on Your Phone, Tablet or Computer
Child Friendly Search Engines:
Help Sheets and Guides
How to:
Safety and Help Online:
We are constantly reviewing how effective our remote learning offer is and staff discuss this weekly, making improvements when necessary.
- Teachers to provide a weekly timetable: A weekly overview of the curriculum subjects will be shared online, this will follow what we normally do in the classroom. How? Tapestry, Seesaw, class blog.
- Weekly planning: Planning for English and Maths will be provided and Key objectives for Foundation subjects. How? Tapestry, Seesaw, class blog.
- Daily work tasks for children: Teachers will upload relevant slides/worksheets/information to online platform for children to complete. Staff will provide teaching videos to explain tasks. How? Tapestry, Seesaw.
- Weekly phone call: Staff will phone once a week to provide any support needed.
- Teachers will be available online to respond to any questions: Teachers will available between 9:00 -3:15pm Monday – Thursday and 9:00- 12:15pm on a Friday. Please note teachers will have PPA on Friday afternoon. How? Tapestry, Seesaw.
If you have any queries or need some support with any of the above please contact the school office on office@theflorence.academy.