Welcome to our Blended Learning page.  Here you will find out about the school's provision and approach to blended learning and find useful hints and tips to support your child in the event that they have to learn remotely. 

What happens?

If, for any reason ( for example, health needs or a family emergency), your child cannot attend school to learn but is still well-enough to learn, then TPA will endeavour to meet your child's needs. 

We will do this in a number of ways:

• If you have a family emergency and your child needs to travel overseas, we will provide the class learning or linked learning as sheets for your child to complete whilst away from school.
• If your child cannot access class learning because of an injury or illness where they are well-enough to learn, we will support learning through our remote Google Classroom or Google Meet. 
• If your child is experiencing ERSA (Emotional Related School Avoidance) or another reason for finding school attendance tricky, we will find a way to help them access their learning either online or via workbooks. 
• If a whole class needs to close for any reason, we will provide remote learning on our Google Classroom platform and via Google Meet. 

Please read all of the guidance shared so that if we have a worse case scenario, children do not miss out. We appreciate that if children are required to isolate, many parents will still need to work from home and we will try our best to ensure that tasks are not onerous and can be carried out as independently as possible.

Please read the setup guidance, policy and other documents to support you.

Staff, parent and pupil agreement when conducting or watching live lessons 

Staff conduct 

- Staff will be required to re-read the Staff Code of Conduct prior to carrying out live online lessons to ensure they understand their responsibilities with regards to conduct during live online lessons. 

- Staff will only use school-provided email addresses and phone numbers to communicate with pupils when conducting live online lessons.

- Staff will only use school-owned devices for conducting live online lessons, where possible.

- Staff will not share personal information whilst conducting live online lessons.

- Staff will conduct live online lessons with appropriate surroundings, e.g. sitting somewhere with a neutral or blurred background.

- Staff will communicate with pupils within school hours as far as possible

- Staff will only communicate and conduct live online lessons through channels approved by WPA . 

- Staff will keep the recorded lesson and chat that happens during live online lessons and ensure it is properly documented, retained and deleted in line with the school’s policy.

Parent and pupil conduct 
 

- Make sure that you and your child are in a quiet space, where there are likely to be fewer distractions and background noises. Also make sure that the view that can be seen from your camera, is an appropriate one.

- The teacher may start by muting all participants. Being able to hear everyone at the same time can be overwhelming, so it is best to mute all participants and then await further instructions from the teacher

- Parents, please stay nearby during the lesson. They may require support accessing the technology or need your reassurance during the call. If your child is very young or shy, you are welcome to sit in

Google Classroom help

How to log on:  https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/answer/6072460?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en 

How to upload files:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRBWBfYxReo 

How to upload pictures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjrJvMiTRgw

• Google Classroom linkHere is the link for Google Classroom. Please log in with your child's given log in details