{"id":43643,"date":"2020-12-10T15:35:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T14:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/industry\/blog\/?p=43643"},"modified":"2020-12-10T15:35:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T14:35:38","slug":"how-to-deliver-a-balanced-approach-to-remote-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/industry\/blog\/education\/2020\/12\/10\/how-to-deliver-a-balanced-approach-to-remote-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"How to deliver a balanced approach to remote learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium webp-format alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/WIN20_EDU_RemoteLearning_011-300x225.webp\" alt=\"A mother helps her son with remote learning tasks.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-orig-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/WIN20_EDU_RemoteLearning_011-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/WIN20_EDU_RemoteLearning_011-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/WIN20_EDU_RemoteLearning_011-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/WIN20_EDU_RemoteLearning_011-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/WIN20_EDU_RemoteLearning_011-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/WIN20_EDU_RemoteLearning_011-330x248.jpeg 330w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/WIN20_EDU_RemoteLearning_011-800x600.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/WIN20_EDU_RemoteLearning_011-400x300.jpeg 400w\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/WIN20_EDU_RemoteLearning_011-300x225.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Exeter Cathedral School (ECS) was founded in 1179 as a choir school. Nowadays, the School is a co-educational day and boarding school which prides itself on being a nurturing and purposeful school for some 260 pupils. Earlier this year, after the Prime Minister\u2019s announcement that schools across the country were required to close, the School\u2019s management team met to prepare for remote learning for the first time in the School\u2019s 841-year history. We agreed on a three-phase approach.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Phase 1:<\/strong>\u00a0Help pupils, parents and staff navigate the three remaining days of the term.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phase 2:<\/strong>\u00a0Provide immediate and long-term on-site support for key worker families.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phase 3:<\/strong>\u00a0Research, prepare and launch a home learning platform to allow for a longer-term closure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a small school, we are mindful of budgets and of the need to be able to develop and manage our remote learning platform in-house. All of our requirements led us to Microsoft and to Microsoft Teams. 16 days later, we launched our first ever virtual learning environment: ECS:Learning@Home.<\/p>\n<h2>8 principles to delivering a balanced approach to remote learning<\/h2>\n<p>Remote learning was new to us and to our pupils and families. We knew what we asked of them needed to be realistic, doable, worthwhile and stimulating. So, we established eight founding principles that would underpin ECS:Learning@Home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full webp-format aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/ECS@home.png\" alt=\"A graphic for ECS@home remote learning platform.\" width=\"860\" height=\"949\" data-orig-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/ECS@home.png 860w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/ECS@home-272x300.png 272w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/ECS@home-768x847.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/ECS@home-227x250.png 227w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/ECS@home-317x350.png 317w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/ECS@home-800x883.png 800w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/ECS@home-400x441.png 400w\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/ECS@home.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Meaningful and manageable<\/h3>\n<p>We worked hard to set up programmes that allowed uncomplicated access to our curriculum across the age groups. We ensured that our online learning was rich, purposeful and clear.<\/p>\n<h3>Enriching<\/h3>\n<p>School is about much more than classroom learning<strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0Through our home learning programme we were able to come together as a school for assemblies, form times, quizzes, sports days, guest speakers, Speech Day and more. This allowed us to add the important touches to a child\u2019s day \u2018at school\u2019 and to create space for pupils to be recognised for their work and have fun with their peers.<\/p>\n<h3>Rigorous, balanced and flexible<\/h3>\n<p>We attach great importance to a broad and balanced school experience andwanted to make sure that our \u2018real life\u2019 breadth of opportunity and high standards continued to be offered remotely.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium webp-format alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/WIN20_EDU_RemoteLearning_001-300x225.webp\" alt=\"A child doing remote learning. He is laying on a bed reading his computer.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-orig-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/WIN20_EDU_RemoteLearning_001-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/WIN20_EDU_RemoteLearning_001-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/WIN20_EDU_RemoteLearning_001-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/WIN20_EDU_RemoteLearning_001-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/WIN20_EDU_RemoteLearning_001-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/WIN20_EDU_RemoteLearning_001-330x248.jpeg 330w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/WIN20_EDU_RemoteLearning_001-800x600.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/WIN20_EDU_RemoteLearning_001-400x300.jpeg 400w\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/WIN20_EDU_RemoteLearning_001-300x225.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Equally, a one-size-fits-all approach was clearly not going to be good enough \u2013 each family\u2019s circumstances were different. So we empowered pupils and parents to access our full daily offerings as they saw fit and to build in screen-free time to their routines.<\/p>\n<h3>Interaction<\/h3>\n<p>Interaction is absolutely fundamental for effective learning and teaching \u2013 and of course for first-rate pastoral care. We wanted to use a digital platform that could replicate, as closely as possible, a classroom experience. We were determined to be live, interactive, and reactive to pupils\u2019 needs while online. Teams allowed us to do this and to achieve a coherent model of home learning and pastoral care across the school.<\/p>\n<h3>Creativity<\/h3>\n<p>And as a school which has its foundations in performance, music and spirituality, we wanted to continue to be a shining light for creativity. As well as daily wellbeing sessions run by our sports department, visual and performing arts featured heavily in our programme. Each afternoon our Creativity Hub opened up and gave our pupils access to lessons and activities in music, art and design and storytelling. We even launched\u00a0<strong>ECS:Choristers@Home\u00a0<\/strong>to keep our core strands of Choristership alive.<\/p>\n<h2>A day in the life of a pupil in remote learning<\/h2>\n<p>We streamlined the timetable so that busy families could easily keep track of the daily pattern. Every pupil started their day with live \u2018morning welcome\u2019 sessions with their form teacher and friends. This was the backbone of our online pastoral provision and allowed us to continue to be a school where\u00a0<strong>people<\/strong>\u00a0matter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full webp-format aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Student-timetable.png\" alt=\"An example of a student's timetable during remote learning.\" width=\"814\" height=\"852\" data-orig-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Student-timetable.png 814w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Student-timetable-287x300.png 287w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Student-timetable-768x804.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Student-timetable-239x250.png 239w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Student-timetable-330x345.png 330w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Student-timetable-800x837.png 800w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Student-timetable-400x419.png 400w\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Student-timetable.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Supporting staff, parents and families<\/h2>\n<p>Staff training was integral to the success of remote learning. We ran training events to allow teachers to learn about Teams and provided time to practise in designated Training Huddles. All of this was, of course, done remotely! We also provided parents with a weekly evening training session.<\/p>\n<p>We sent out a weekly ECS:Learning@Home update, complete with videos and snippets from the week, and \u2013 crucially \u2013 a \u2018You Said, We Did\u2019 feature: this gave parents and pupils a voice, and helped us to unify our efforts and build a cohesive home-school community committed to improvement.<\/p>\n<h2>Pupil and staff outcomes in remote learning<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium webp-format alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Ofc17_Lydia_007-300x200.webp\" alt=\"A child doing remote learning. She is sitting by a table with a computer and stationary around her.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-orig-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Ofc17_Lydia_007-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Ofc17_Lydia_007-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Ofc17_Lydia_007-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Ofc17_Lydia_007-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Ofc17_Lydia_007-330x220.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Ofc17_Lydia_007-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Ofc17_Lydia_007-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Ofc17_Lydia_007.jpg 2000w\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Ofc17_Lydia_007-300x200.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using Teams allowed us to keep doing what we love \u2013 coming together each day as a school community. We genuinely stayed connected and, in amongst all of the learning, had a whole lot of fun!<\/p>\n<p>As a staff body we held games and quizzes, kept the banter flowing through Teams chat, and even had a lipsync battle with senior pupils. Teams also meant that our pupils were able to take their public exams. In fact, the class of 2020 equalled the School\u2019s best-ever public exam results.<\/p>\n<p>The success of our ECS:Learning@Home programme seems to have resonated locally and more widely. We currently have more enquiries than ever before from families who want to explore an ECS place for their child.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-large size-large webp-format alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Exeter-Cathedral-Graphic-27.11-1024x790.webp\" alt=\"Exeter Cathedral infographic with their tips for successful remote working.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"790\" data-orig-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Exeter-Cathedral-Graphic-27.11-1024x790.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Exeter-Cathedral-Graphic-27.11-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Exeter-Cathedral-Graphic-27.11-768x592.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Exeter-Cathedral-Graphic-27.11-1536x1185.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Exeter-Cathedral-Graphic-27.11-2048x1580.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Exeter-Cathedral-Graphic-27.11-324x250.jpg 324w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Exeter-Cathedral-Graphic-27.11-330x255.jpg 330w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Exeter-Cathedral-Graphic-27.11-800x617.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Exeter-Cathedral-Graphic-27.11-400x309.jpg 400w\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/Exeter-Cathedral-Graphic-27.11-1024x790.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>How remote learning impacts our future plans<\/h2>\n<p>We have now adopted a blended-learning approach to our curriculum with the support of Teams, using it to further pupils\u2019 independent learning skills. Live speakers are now joining us for assemblies and Enrichment Talks via Teams to speak about topical issues and our Pupil Voice initiative continues to thrive digitally.<\/p>\n<p>We see our blended learning approach being integral to our provision over the coming months and years \u2013 it\u2019s here to stay.<\/p>\n<h2>Find out more<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exetercathedralschool.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Discover more about ECS\u2019s journey<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/education.microsoft.com\/en-us\/resource\/4c0c02c0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Get started with hybrid learning<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/education\/remote-learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn about remote learning<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>About the author<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail webp-format alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/James-Featherstone-150x150.webp\" alt=\"James Featherstone, a man wearing a suit and tie smiling at the camera. He is outside in front of some green bushes.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/11\/James-Featherstone-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>James Featherstone is the Headmaster of Exeter Cathedral School. His job is to lead and manage the School, look after the team of staff, and to make sure that the 260 pupils and their families have the best possible educational journey. Before joining ECS, James was on the Senior Leadership Team at the Perse School in Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of school James enjoys singing, travelling through France (he\u2019s a linguist by training), and doing his best to keep up with his two children on their adventures together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building a rich, purposeful and clear remote learning environment will help enrich pupils and keep them, staff and parents connected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":585,"featured_media":44231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"post_tag":[160,978,361,1553,684,1347,678],"content-type":[],"coauthors":[1556],"class_list":["post-43643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-blogger-series","tag-classroom-experience","tag-education","tag-hybrid-learning","tag-learning","tag-remote-learning","tag-schools"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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