We understand that Lockdowns/Covid-19 has brought many challenges for you and your family and we recognise that home learning will not be the same as having your child in school. However, we have adapted our curriculum to ensure that your child receives a good quality of education, despite not being in school as planned.

Our number one priority is the safety and well-being of all children and staff at our school. It is important that anyone who cannot be in school remains at home but continues to be supported with their education and well-being.

Through the above platforms we shall deliver our curriculum offer remotely. 

For help and support, please email: james.southall@st-marys.sandwell.sch.uk

Or contact the school office. 

Any child who cannot attend school due to Covid-19 isolation or a national lockdown, will be fully supported with their learning. Daily timetables will be shared to parents and also to Key Stage 2 children who have their own Google Classroom accounts.

Children will continue to receive a broad and balanced curriculum with all subjects being covered remotely in a variety of ways.

We have invested heavily in online resources to ensure that the children have high quality websites to use such as SeeSaw, Reading Plus, Reading Planet, SPaG.com and TT Rock Stars. These resources all help to support children with their learning.

Daily timetables explain to the children what lesson they are doing and when. We use lots of video clips and video links to teach new content and to consolidate understanding. Children are given activities to complete either via one of the websites or by hand. When not using the websites, we ask children to email their work to their class teacher. This enables the teacher to see how well each child is doing, give praise and encouragement and support them to further progress through feedback and adapting the next lesson in the sequence of learning to further their understanding.

Children can complete activities on the computer or on paper and either upload a copy of the file or take a photo of their completed work and email that to their teacher. It is important that we receive work regularly in order to support children to continue to progress and developing their understanding particularly because we are continuing to teach new concepts and skills.

We also offer daily live lessons through Teams for all children. These lessons are used to teach children and ensure that children can ask and answer questions in order to cement their understanding.

These are an opportunity for children to interact with each other as well as be supported by their class teacher with both their well-being and their learning.

We also offer daily assemblies and collective worship – some of which are run through live Google Classroom sessions for the whole school and other through links to Ten:Ten.

Please contact the school office or Mr. Southall.