We at Mortimer would like to say a huge thank you to the Maughan family. They have very kindly donated several trees for our Mortimer Woodland and spent a full morning in the cold and rain planting them for us.

Please find below a list of the Google Meet times for week beginning 11.1.21.

We know that some classes may have sibling link clashes, please don’t feel you have to attend every Google Meet session. If there are conflicts on times with siblings you may be able to alternate days between children or chat to the teacher and let them know.

Please do not feel it is essential to visit each meeting. 

The morning sessions will mainly be a discussion of the work set for that day and answering any questions children may have, the afternoon session will generally be a story time and catch up with the class both in school and at home.

Teachers are preparing pre-recorded videos to accompany many of the work tasks, we are very much aware that not all parents are able to be ‘live’ every day at the same time and we want to offer support wherever we feel it will enhance learning.

We’ll see you online!

Here are the times of Google Meets for the rest of the week. The staff loved seeing the children today and we hope you enjoyed the interaction too. The times are deliberately different each day this week to allow children who may not have access at a set time to be able to see their teacher and have contact.

Moving forward next week you will have two set times for each class, each day. There may  also be other invitations to complete group and individual tasks such as reading or phonic work with your teacher or teaching assistant. More information will follow. These times will be posted in the Google Classrooms and on the website by close of day Friday. 

Tasks set within the Google Classroom may also have audio from your teacher explaining tasks over a PowerPoint or sharing a demonstration. These will be pre-recorded so that children will be able to access them at any time they need to while working. This will not be on every task but where we feel it supports learning.

A few things we discovered today: 

• If you are using a Mac Book try to use Google Chrome not Safari to access the Google Classroom.
• If you are on a portable device have Google Classroom and Google Meet downloaded as Apps. Make sure that your child is logged into both using their school email.
• You can not access the Google Meet with your own email it must be a school email. If your child’s user name is DavidS then their email would be [email protected].

We are here to help and will try our best to iron out any bumps by next week. Thank you for supporting us as we move forward and implement our Remote Learning Plan. 

This is a really comprehensive video about using Google Classroom.

The video lasts about ten minutes, the important bits about assignments start at 5 minutes! 

Our KS2 children are very well practised using Google Classroom but our KS1 children are still learning. This might support the transition to online learning and help to answer some of the questions you may have.

Remember not all work needs to be completed online. A lot of children prefer to complete work on paper, our teachers try to be mindful that not all children have a printer.

You may want to take a photo using a digital device such as a phone or a tablet and then upload to the the task. Many of our children have impressed our staff in the past by finding new and inventive ways to annotate worksheets online by using screen shot feature and edit tool to complete.

We aim to make our remote learning accessible to all – please don’t feel there is one set way to submit your work. Teachers are very aware that these are very strange times and we are here to support and encourage all efforts.

Please find a list below of your class Google Meet Time.

There is a link in each Google Classroom and information on how to access the meeting. A  teacher from your year group will be live at those times.

• 9:00 6RD
• 9:10 6FH
• 9:20 6EM
• 9:30 5HA
• 9:40 5AM
• 9:50 5PM
• 10;00 4AS
• 10:10 4KA
• 10:20 4KR
• 10:30 3JDO
• 10:40 3JG
• 10:50 3JDA
• 11:00 2SK
• 11:10 2ES
• 11:20 2RF
• 11:30 1MP
• 11:40 1KM
• 11:50 1CS

Please note these times are for Wednesday only!

We have been contacted by the Royal Society of Biology to inform us that sadly our entries have not been shortlisted.