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Every child (with internet access) in our school got a daily learning plan uploaded to the website each morning. Those without internet access got a weekly hard copy.The teachers created class video centre pages on the website with learning activities and updated a daily class blog.They also spoke to each child and their parent/guardian weekly - not just on learning but also on things like online safety and mental well being.Those who could not be contacted, and those who are on the safeguarding, list the head/deputy head visited personally.I have no idea whether this was normal or just exceptional for our school, but that what they did.
My daughter's school had parents complaining the work was too hard for them to help even at year one level.
Quote from: idler on August 24, 2020, 08:13:10 pmMy daughter's school had parents complaining the work was too hard for them to help even at year one level.Jesus. What hope have you got if the parents can't even do the work of a bloody 7 year old (or whatever age it is!).
Quote from: Janso on August 24, 2020, 10:25:44 pmQuote from: idler on August 24, 2020, 08:13:10 pmMy daughter's school had parents complaining the work was too hard for them to help even at year one level.Jesus. What hope have you got if the parents can't even do the work of a bloody 7 year old (or whatever age it is!).Did YOU do phonics at school?
Quote from: ravenrover on August 25, 2020, 02:25:19 pmQuote from: Janso on August 24, 2020, 10:25:44 pmQuote from: idler on August 24, 2020, 08:13:10 pmMy daughter's school had parents complaining the work was too hard for them to help even at year one level.Jesus. What hope have you got if the parents can't even do the work of a bloody 7 year old (or whatever age it is!).Did YOU do phonics at school?Yes, actually, if phonics is what I think it is.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to get it all correct. I would rather have a government who were prepared to reverse decisions that needed reversing, than one that refused to budge through sheer stubbornness. Of course they are making mistakes during this time (as, no doubt, is every single government in the world), but all these ‘lists as long as your arm‘ supposedly highlighting how shambolically things have been handled are unhelpful in these continuously changing times.Whenever I have doubts about how Boris and his government are handling things, I play the ‘imagine Corbyn in charge right now’ game.Then I feel better again.
Quote from: belton rover on August 26, 2020, 10:02:33 amIt is IMPOSSIBLE to get it all correct. I would rather have a government who were prepared to reverse decisions that needed reversing, than one that refused to budge through sheer stubbornness. Of course they are making mistakes during this time (as, no doubt, is every single government in the world), but all these ‘lists as long as your arm‘ supposedly highlighting how shambolically things have been handled are unhelpful in these continuously changing times.Whenever I have doubts about how Boris and his government are handling things, I play the ‘imagine Corbyn in charge right now’ game.Then I feel better again.A good Government would get most decisions correct at the first time of asking, but this one seems to just do its own thing and wait for the reaction to put it right, there seems to be no thought at all into decision making
I'm truly amazed by how many people are prepared to give a pass to the Govt on the Herd Immunity issue. This isn't a hindsight thing. We KNEW by 9-10 March what was happening in Italy and how rapidly things were deteriorating in France and Spain. Those were the first three countries in Europe to be hit with the virus and everyone else had a chance to learn from them.Most European countries did. Germany, Norway, Denmark, Portugal, Austria, Greece, Ireland, Poland and several other locked down much earlier in their epidemic timescale than those three countries did, and the result was that their outbreaks were far less damaging.Only the UK failed to take that opportunity. We were still officially going for HI as late as 16-17 March and even after that, it took us a week to properly lockdown. Given that the cases and deaths were doubling every 3-4 days at that time, that two week delay has cost well over 30,000 lives and extended the duration of our outbreak, increasing the lockdown time and leading to worse economic damage.That was a policy choice of the UK Govt. Shockingly, disastrously wrong. And this isn't hindsight talking. We on this very Forum were saying by mid-March that we couldn't believe we weren't in lock down. I had in-laws from Italy on the phone in mid-March incredulous that we were still going about business as normal, when (to quote them) "can't you see what this thing is doing to us?"It's fascinating that a UK Govt can get a policy so spectacularly wrong that it leads to the avoidable deaths of 30,000 UK citizens over a month, and perhaps a £200bn cost to the economy, and people will just shrug their shoulders and move one. If that is the case, I truly cannot begin to imagine what a UK Govt would have to do to be criticised by that sort of person.
BillyExpert advice from China. Really? You trust the Chinese rather than our own government?I need a lie down.
My God, you love deliberately missing the point don't you?
He has it down to a fine art Janso.This is an article by a leading figure in the medical.world who has contacts throughout the profession. I'd take his opinion on what the medical profession knew about COVID and when over a bigotted response in here.And you've done it yet again Belton. Misrepresented yet another thing I wrote. I haven't said anything about China or January in this exchange.Your insistence on putting words into my mouth to make the points you want to make is starting to worry me to be honest. It is utterly bizarre behaviour.