have updated their Blended Learning webpage to include all the latest DfE remote education guidance and expectations from: Restricting attendance during the national lockdown: schools
Key updates include:
- More specific details of the expected remote learning time for each key stage:
- - Key Stage 1: 3 hours a day on average across the cohort, with less for younger children
- - Key Stage 2: 4 hours a day
- - Key Stages 3 and 4: 5 hours a day
- A new expectation that schools will 'identify a named senior leader with overarching responsibility for the quality and delivery of remote education'
- Confirmation that schools should: publish information for pupils, parents and carers about their remote education provision on their website by 25 January 2021
- A new DfE framework to support schools in self-reviewing their remote education offering
eLIM's guidance documents are fully updated to include full details of all DfE expectations, as well as containing details to support schools in implementing these. Documents which have been updated this week are:
Strategic development of Blended Learning
Checklist for implementation of blended learning
Also added to the blended learning guidance are new Online Safety home learning activities. The team have reviewed ThinkuKnow's home activities to link to their Building Habits progression for primary schools. These can be found by scrolling down on the right-hand side of the Blended Learning webpage