White Hall Academy

Remote Learning at White Hall Academy

The school has been directed by Essex County Council to move to remote learning from Tuesday 5^th January for all pupils except keyworkers’ children and vulnerable children.

Remote Learning Offer

All schools are asked to provide an Educational Remote Learning offer – this is led by qualified teaching staff to ensure that our children who are learning from home continue to progress. All children are expected to be accessing education whether they are at home or at school.

All children at White Hall Academy have access to ClassDojo – this is an online portal which will act as the main platform to access home learning.

Every day, between 9am and 9.30am the children need to log in to ClassDojo where there will either be a link to a Zoom Call or a Morning activity. We will use this for registration purposes – any child who is unwell and unable to complete their learning for the day; we ask the parent or carer to phone the school office in line with our normal pupil absence procedures.
The timetable for the day will be posted in the Class Story on ClassDojo. All class teachers will be on Zooms for your child to access as they would their normal lessons.
The children will complete their learning on paper, in their remote learning books or directly in their portfolios on ClassDojo.
The end of the remote learning school day will be 2.30pm, any work needs to be uploaded to ClassDojo by 3.00pm – so that the class teacher can check it before the following day.
There will be paper work packs available for your children – however we encourage all our children to engage with the online sessions as they can talk directly with their class teacher, to address any learning misconceptions as well as engage with their classmates within the lessons.
The work packs provided will need adult support if the child does not access online sessions.
Work packs can be collected, each Monday, from the school office – please message your class teacher via ClassDojo to request a work pack.
We appreciate it is very difficult when sharing devices – we have ensured that a core lesson each day of 45 minutes is available for children who share devices. We ask they log on at the time for their year group and request a paper pack for the rest of the day’s learning. The times for the core lesson each day are as follows: