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Home Learning- January 2021

We will be providing remote learning for our pupils through the DB Primary platform. This can be accessed at: hogarth.essex.dbprimary.com

The children will be required to use the username and password that was issued to them as part of their home learning pack at the end of the autumn term.

It is important that children keep their username and password safe and that they do not share it with friends or family.

Once your child has logged into DB Primary they will be able to see the homepage for their class and any tasks their teacher has set for them. It is an expectation that these tasks are completed so that every child can continue to make progress with their learning.

As a school, we will monitor the work that the children do. Although we understand how difficult the current circumstances are, it is important that every child has a daily maths, English (phonics) and topic lesson. Where possible, please follow the timetable that has been set out on DB Primary so that our children learning from home receive the same provision as those who have been offered a full-time school place (following Government Guidance).

As part of the DB Primary platform, your child will be able to use a forum to keep in touch with their friends and teachers. Please discuss the safety implications of this with your child:

• Anything your child puts onto DB Primary can be seen by members of staff.
• Sensible behaviour must be used when accessing the blogs or forums
• Make sure that any pictures you upload (profile picture, or pictures in posts) are suitable for a school audience
• Be kind when leaving comments on other’s work
• DBPrimary has an automatic profanity filter which is designed to block any inappropriate language, which also includes ambiguous words such as ‘hate’.
• All messages can be reviewed, checked and traced to the sender.
• Teachers can block the message sending option if they think it necessary.
• Any inappropriate content can be reported to staff at the school by clicking on the whistle icon.

As a school, our staff are working collaboratively and we have organised for key members of staff to be our administrative support. Should you have any queries or concerns, please contact:

Reception- Mrs McIntosh- EYFS@hogarth.essex.sch.uk

Year 1- Mrs Wright- awright@hogarth.essex.sch.uk

Year 2 and Year 3 – Miss Mzoumi- mmzoumi@hogarth.essex.sch.uk

Years 4, 5 and 6- Mrs Sullivan- ksullivan@hogarth.essex.sch.uk

We hope that having access to DB Primary will be a helpful way in which you can support your child at home and that children can begin to take responsibility for furthering their own learning independently.

Reminder:

Homework and reading books will be given out on a Monday and must be returned to school on a Friday so that we can change them. Unfortunately, we are unable to change reading books on any other day. Please read with your child as often as possible at home and write a comment in their reading diary. Daily practise with an adult can increase your child's enthusiasm and help them to progress even further!

Please practise your weekly spellings, doing so will help your child with their sight recognition of words. There is not an expectation to complete all of the spellings. Homework should be enjoyed and as long as you practise some of the spellings each night this will help with your child's development. As a class we are beginning to write using cursive letters, we have only used a few of these letters so far. When pracitising your spellings do not worry about using joint up cursive letters, you could 'have a go' using the letters that we have used in our handwriting if you want to!