Online Learning

The links below provide students and parents/carers with the information required for remote learning.

Online Lessons

Online Lessons Term 1 26-27.pdf

Video Conferencing – Lessons – Student Guidance

Student Guidance for safe and effective use

During the period of school closure, we, like other schools, have realised the effectiveness of video conference platforms such as Zoom or Microsoft Teams. Mainly, this is due to the potential collaboration and educational interaction between students and teachers.

Schools in the Redhill Academy Trust will ONLY use Microsoft Teams for video conference as the school has a full Microsoft support package to ensure safeguarding and security are fully covered. Your support for these guidelines is greatly appreciated:

You will be provided with invitations to online lessons via the school email system – through its connection to Microsoft Teams ONLY! You must not post meeting details or invitations on social media.
You will NOT be able to join lessons/video conferencing using webcams/video. Staff will be visible, and you will be able to interact by watching or by contributing by voice only.
Staff will see your “profile” picture you have set for your school email account – please ensure it is appropriate.
You must take lessons in a room with an open door and a parent / guardian or another trusted adult should be in the same premises as you while the lesson takes place.
You should not take your lesson in your bedroom.
Present yourself as you would if they were in a face-to-face lesson: speak appropriately for a school lesson, dress sensibly (school uniform is NOT compulsory!) and follow the behaviour expectations that we have in lessons.
The lesson will be recorded, and the recorded lesson is the sole intellectual property of the school and must not be reproduced without the school's permission.
Your teacher will record the length, time, date and attendance of any sessions held, and may record the lesson. If so, a reply will be available on Stream.

Your teacher will contact the school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) if they have any concerns about a student. Examples of potential concerns may include:

A staff member seeing, or hearing, a concern during an online lesson.
A disclosure made by a student in the course of a lesson.

Video Conferencing – Lessons – Parent/Carer Guidance

Parents and Carers Guidance

Students and staff have been issued with guidance to follow to ensure that video conference lessons are conducted safely. Schools within the Redhill Academy Trust will ONLY use Microsoft Teams for video conference as the school has a full Microsoft support package to ensure safeguarding and security are fully covered. Your support for these guidelines is greatly appreciated:

Students will be provided with invitations to online lessons via the school email system – through its connection to Microsoft Teams ONLY! Students must not post meeting details or invitations on social media. School staff have been instructed to ensure that any video conference account is linked to their school email account through Microsoft Teams.
Staff will see students’ “profile” pictures that they have set for their school email accounts – students should ensure they are appropriate.
Students will NOT be able to join lessons/video conferencing using webcams/video. Please disable video before joining a meeting. Staff will be visible and students will be able to interact by watching or by contributing by voice only.
Students should refrain from editing any images/video sent and/or sending any content to anyone else.
As far as possible, please make a safe, appropriate and semi-supervised space available for the lesson to take place in. Students have been told that they should take lessons in a room with an open door and that a parent / carer or another trusted adult should be in the same premises while the lesson takes place (where possible).
Under most circumstances, it is not appropriate for staff members to hold one-to-one video conferences with a student due to safeguarding risk. However, there may be cases where one-to-one work may be very beneficial to a student, for example, in supporting learners with special educational needs to access their work. In such circumstances, parental consent should be secured, and ideally a parent / carer should join some of the sessions, in addition to following all other guidelines in this document.
Students should not take video conference lessons from their bedroom if possible.
Students are required to present themselves as they would if they were in a face-to-face lesson. They should dress sensibly (school uniform is NOT compulsory!) and follow the behaviour expectations that we have in lessons.
Staff have the right to ask students to leave the lesson, and may remove them from the lesson.
The teacher will record the length, time, date and attendance of any sessions held, and will record the lesson to be published for students unable to join the live lesson to watch at a later date or time. The recorded lesson is the sole property of the school and must not be reproduced without the school’s permission. Students MUST NOT make their own separate recording of the lesson.
In some circumstances, a second member of staff will be present at the video conference lesson. This is to help manage learning, for example by checking emails or questions from students, and contributing to discussion, as well as by providing a safeguard.
Your child’s teacher will contact the school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) if they have any concerns about a student. Examples of potential concerns may include:
- A staff member seeing, or hearing, a concern during an online lesson.
- A disclosure made by a student in the course of a lesson.

Staff will ensure compliance with all points in this document and with the full video conferencing policy approved by Governors.

As well as this, they will:

Ensure they have rehearsed what will be shared and planned the lesson as they would in school to ensure all students can be engaged.
Ensure that the learning follows the same structure as in the classroom, e.g. clear learning objectives and discussion points.
Consider fully the contents of any screen sharing they ask students to join with.
Where possible, have another member of staff present, virtually in video lessons.
Never ask anyone to share any personal information during the video lessons.
Present themselves in a fully professional manner – audibly, visually and in terms of content.
Provide the appropriate support for vulnerable and SEND students.
Provide access to learning for any students without access to the internet.