Remote Learning

Contingency Planning for School Closure

King Solomon Academy will continue to deliver high-quality education during periods of remote learning due to closure or groups of children isolating at home. Our priority is to ensure pupils have the best learning opportunities even if they are not in school.

You can read our contigency planning for Covid-19 related remote learning below:

King Solomon Academy COVID-19 Contingency Planning (Updated October 2020).pdf

Staying Mentally Healthy During School Closure

We want to make sure all our families are as safe and healthy as possible during school closure. Parents and pupils alike can contact the school using parents@kingsolomonacademy.org or call 0207 563 6900 for general enquiries or call or email your teacher or Head of Year/Year Lead. Safeguarding concerns should be addressed to Ms. Deeks on k.deeks@kingsolomonacademy.org or Ms. Colmans on i.colmans@Kingsolomonacademy.org. Please see the pdf below for other sources of support for parents and pupils during this strange time.

Staying mentally healthy during school closure.docx.pdf

Secondary and Sixth Form Home Learning Curriculum

From Monday 18th January, all KSA secondary pupils will move from video lessons to live lessons with their teachers for the duration of lockdown. We are excited to support pupils to make even more progress when learning from home by delivering three live lessons each day, which pupils will supplement with additional independent work.

On Monday 18th January, pupils will join lessons via MS Teams.

Before students join these lessons, they must ensure they have completed the ‘Ready to Learn’ tasks set by their form teacher and that they have read the information in this document about how to aim high at KSA online.
Aiming High at KSA Online.pdf

A reminder of how to access MS Teams, email and SharePoint can be found by clicking on this document Student How To Guide.pdf

All children in the secondary school will operate according to the same timetable. Each class in Middle School and Upper School will follow a different timetable (i.e. 7 Liverpool’s day will look different to 7 York’s day). Each Sixth Form pupil will follow a personalised timetable based on their subject choices.

Time	Activity
8.25 - 8.30am	Students logging on
8.30 - 8.45am Prompt start at 8.30am	Form time (Most days this will be short, but there will be an extended session once/week will a pastoral focus) All students will be registered daily at 8.30am, this will impact their attendance - students must attend this registration period.
8.45 - 10.15am	Lesson 1 45 minutes live teaching 45 minutes independent work Students will submit work at 10.15am via MS Teams
10.15 - 11.00am	Break
11.00 - 12.30pm	Lesson 2 45 minutes live teaching 45 minutes independent work Students will submit work at 12.30pm via MS Teams
12.30pm-1.45pm	Lunch break
1.45pm-3.15pm	Lesson 3 45 minutes live teaching 45 minutes independent work Students will submit work at 3.15pm via MS Teams

Each child will be reminded of their timetable in form time each day. Students can also see their timetable by clicking on the links below.

Year 7	Year 8	Year 9	Year 10	Year 11	Year 12	Year 13
Oxford York Liverpool	Royal Holloway Bristol LSE	Manchester Goldsmiths	Cardiff Brighton UCL	Lyon Sorbonne Warwick	Year 12 all form groups	Year 13 all form groups

Primary Home Learning Curriculum

All pupils from Nursery to Year 6 are sent home learning packs every two weeks of school closure. There are daily tasks for every pupil. Anyone can access these packs in PDF format at the bottom of this page.

Channel

Staff upload daily videos to support pupils accessing the home learning packs on our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7JnUYapu3bNd_XGeURAPqw

Feel free to browse the storytelling videos and activities of any and all year groups! During remote learning, we also upload our weekly assemblies so they can be enjoyed at home.

In addition to the home learning curriculum, we have put together subject specific pages of additional activities to keep your brains engaged online for those of you who like to spend time on devices! We are constantly adding to these resources as we go along so if you see something you think we should add, then please do feel free to let us know! Pupils are encouraged to follow their own interests and passions by exploring a subject or topic or skill they find exciting.

Pupils from Nursery to Year 6 have two online tutorials a week in group sizes of 6-9 pupils with their class teacher to review their home learning packs and spend some time together learning and making sure we all stay well connected. Class teachers will email families to submit photographs of 2-3 selected pieces of home learning to be reviewed so their progress can be monitored. Target pupils in each class also have 15minutes of 1:1 reading time with an adult every day. Pupils access these tutorials through their parents’ email addresses to add a layer of security and adhere to strict guidelines on use of video, audio and chat. For parents who are unsure of when their child’s tutorials are scheduled to take place, please reach out directly to your child’s class teacher or email parents@kingsolomonacademy.org to check.

Any parent who would prefer for their child not to participate due to concerns about recording can opt out. Please contact Ms. Deeks directly on k.deeks@kingsolomonacademy.org or on 020 3116 0802.

You can see a video of how to join a teams meeting video *here*.