It is vitally important that children have the correct equipment in order for them to learn successfully whilst learning from home. The children will need pencils paper [both lined and blank], coloured pencils, scissors, ruler and a device to enable them to access the delivery of the online lessons.

School will provide any materials that you are unable to - please do not hesitate to contact us if it is the case that you require any equipment.

It is vitally important that you contact school at the earliest opportunity so that we can put in place measures to enable your child to continue with their remote learning. If you have no laptop please contact Mr Logue and he will be able to organise a loan of one of our devices. Please note that this is a loan only basis and you will be required to sign a contract.

If you have no WIFI in the house please also contact Mr Logue as he will be able to apply for this from the Government. Several parents have already taken advantage of their mobile phone providers offer of free, and in some cases unlimited, data for their phones in order for them to tether a device to it to enable access to the internet.

If you would like to take advantage of this offer then please complete this form. Please note that this is a limited offer and it is based on a first come; first served basis.

However, if it is not possible to loan a device out school will provide a pack of work for you to give to your child.

One of the negative aspects of Remote Learning is that for those children who find learning a challenge anyway; this way of learning can be quite intimidating and off-putting. If this is the case, parents are encouraged to contact school where we will continue to deliver work to your child at their appropriate level - this may be through online methods or we can post work out to your home address.

You will also receive an extra phonecall from a member of staff who is overseeing the work for those children with additional needs.

We have a comprehensive safeguarding ethos in school. All children will receive a safe and well check - this will be carried out weekly by a senior leader. As well as this those children who are classed as vulnerable will receive an additional phonecall where their parents will be able to speak with the school's Family Support Worker. This will give those parents an opportunity to air any worries and will receive expert bespoke advice with regard to their situation.

If you do have any worries about a child please do contact school and ask to speak with Mrs Taylor or any of her deputy DSL's

Firstly, you will receive a text message informing you that your child's bubble will need to isolate. You will need to pick them up from school immediately if the message is sent during the school day. You will then receive further instructions via your ParentPay account. These details will include the date your child should return to school and instructions about how the school intend to continue to educate your child.

If your child's bubble has been asked to isolate this will include their teachers also. If this is the case your child's teacher will have been instructed to begin teaching from home. This means that they will be uploading work on a daily basis to the Microsoft Teams platform. They will also have been given passwords for other learning platforms such as Rising Stars for their reading and Mathletics for their Maths as well as their Purple Mash login details. Your child should have already received instructions on how to access this work including any passwords required.

The work your child will be set will be the work that they would normally have been expected to complete in class at this time so it is very important that your child logs into their account to retrieve the work to be completed.

Please do not panic if you don't have any login details as these can be retrieved and sent to you as well as instructions on how to login to these various sites via email if you contact Mr Logue at d.logue@corpuschristi.bham.sch.uk

Mr Logue will try to get back to you as soon as possible [usually within a few minutes of your request].

Once you have phoned school to let us know then work will be uploaded to your child's VLE. The VLE can be found at the bottom right-hand-corner of the schools website. Again, your child will have been issued with login details for this. We use the National Oak Academy to upload relevant work for your child.

Microsoft Teams is used when a complete bubble has to isolate at home. This includes the teacher. The teacher, if they are well enough, will work as normal to produce work for the children to complete. This work needs to be modified in a way for children to understand and compensate for not having a face-to-face lesson with their teacher. This takes quite some time to plan, upload and deliever; as well as mark the work.

We have a dedicated member of staff who is responsible for uploading work to the VLE if it is just your child that has to isolate rather than their entire bubble. In this instance your child's teacher would be teaching their class in school as normal and it would be unreasonlable to then ask them to begin uploading, modifying and delivering the work to your child [and possibly other children who are isolating] as well as asking them to execute their normal teaching duties.

The work uploaded to the VLE is sourced from the Oak National Academy and is relevant to what your child would have been doing in class on or around the time that they have had off.

You may find that your child may be sent home with workbooks to complete independently in the first instance.