Remote Learning Platforms
At St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, we use a range of online learning platforms to support learning both in school and at home.
Purple Mash is an interactive online learning platform that provides pupils with access to a wide range of activities across the curriculum, including computing, English, maths, science and creative subjects. Teachers can set tasks, share resources and provide feedback, enabling pupils to continue their learning remotely in an engaging and accessible way.
https://www.purplemash.com/sch/stthomasme5#/
MyMaths is our online mathematics platform that supports the teaching and learning of maths. It provides interactive lessons, practice activities and personalised homework tasks linked to class learning. Pupils can access activities independently, helping them to consolidate their understanding and develop fluency in key mathematical concepts.
Together, these platforms help ensure that pupils can access high-quality learning opportunities beyond the classroom, supporting continuity of education and encouraging independent learning.
Our remote education provision
COVID-19 Recovery Curriculum - September 2020
Rationale: All children returning to school following lockdown have experienced loss (routine, freedom, relationships, social interaction structure) and have lived through a collective trauma.
From loss emanates three significant dynamics that will impact majorly on the mental health of our children. Anxiety, trauma and bereavement are powerful forces. For them all to appear at once in an untimely and unplanned fashion is significant for the developing child. Our children are vulnerable at this time, and their mental-health fragile. And on top of that, they are witnessing a sea of adult anxiety, which they unwittingly are absorbing.
https://www.evidenceforlearning.net/recoverycurriculum/
The intention of the Recovery Curriculum is to provide opportunities to rebuild relationships and a sense of community, space to re-establish a sense of self and to relearn behaviour for learning skills.
This Recovery Curriculum is based on the 5 Levers:
Relationships - build up/upon these to cushion the discomfort of returning.
Community - listen to what has happened, engage in transition of learning back into the school community
Transparent Curriculum - be explicit about addressing the gaps so they feel secure that something is being done about the lost time in learning.
Metacognition - supporting children to relearn, think, learning how to learn and build a sense of awareness
Space - provide opportunity to rediscover self, cultivate awareness/mindfulness, and find their voice in learning & exploration.
In between and in addition to these sessions, there will be timetabled sessions at forest school, on the playground and the field.
COVID-19 Support
Welcome to the COVID-19 support page, this includes advice direct from the school, local authority, and government.
For all information relating to COVID-19 (coronavirus), please see the GOV.UK website here.