well in all parts of the uk schools are
closed
to all pupils except for vulnerable
children and those whose parents are key
workers
parents and carers are having to
supervise home schooling
with many lacking access to precisely
the right technology and in many cases
struggling with the cost our education
editor brahman jeffries
has been talking to teachers parents and
pupils at a school in stockholm trent
empty classrooms again most children
back at home
yes so firstly we've got the zoom
session but teachers
in school planning online lessons
learning packs for pupils
i don't really i was quite shocked
before i thought if you know what i mean
angela can't believe it's happening
again she works an hour a day as a
dinner lady
now she'll have daughter lily learning
at home
she'll sit there for five minutes
five minutes and that's good if you can
get a focus for five minutes
and then as the minutes tick by
she's gone watching your video i've got
to sit with her because she's
looking around aren't you spinning
around
standing on red schools have spent the
day working out how to help families
it's not just about moving lessons
online
some children are still learning on
their parents mobiles
and a day of pay-as-you-go data
on lessons could cost almost a hundred
pounds
leading to calls for data for education
to be made
cheaper or free some children we found
in the last lockdown didn't access the
zoom
catching up with his head teachers
across stoke
even with schools contacting families
some teens lose confidence log out of
lessons
disconnect from learning what really
worries me
is where those students aren't engaged
and don't connect
and they're not there for learning even
with the intervention
what they're doing every day possibly
they're not in the house
possibly they're on the streets but the
only thing that stops them walking is
school
and without school being there they walk
in a different
direction completely it's like at the
moment we're shopping
but many parents like vicki are
determined to do their best
with four daughters that's tough in
lockdown she'll have to help the
youngest most
keeping going worrying about what
they're missing
you should be with a teacher who
is able to have their attention to teach
them properly
because as a mum you can't do that
properly
because you're not qualified as one
obviously you do your best to do what
you can
but that's what i said that's all it
says for me how'd it screen affect their
grades and then mentally
more than half a million devices have
reached pupils
the government is aiming to double that
with more on the way
to help those not in class but at home
brownwood jeffries bbc news
let's stay with schools because the bbc
has announced its biggest ever selection
of educational programs
for children who are staying at home
during lockdown from next monday
there will be at least five hours of
programming on cbbc and bbc2
for both primary and secondary school
children
and as schools are indeed closed to most
pupils ministers confirmed that this
year's gcses
and a levels in england are being
cancelled scotland and wales have
already announced the cancellation of
major schools exams some vocational
exams in england including b-techs
are still going ahead though there is
growing pressure to cancel them as well
our education correspondent elaine
dunkley has been talking to some of
those who are due to sit
exams during the summer
a daunting walk into the exam room and
for millions of students
there has been confusion over whether
they'll take place
it's just a bit nerve-wracking because
i've not sitting since my marks
so it just brings back all the memories
of exams
milly's level 2 btec exam in sports
studies is still due to go ahead next
week
but her gcse exams have been cancelled
me for one i'm really stressed about
exams because we've missed so much and
like it's just really hard to motivate
myself to get up in the morning because
i've not been in a straight routine for
ages
and it's been remote learning and our
disruption to learning has been
getting worse seeing as more people are
getting covered
and it's just been really hard we've
covered like not even half of the
a-level spec
max bamford is doing a levels he's been
revising for mocks which were due to
take place in two weeks
but have now been cancelled so i think
the issue is there's
people out there who've not done as well
in assessments within
school and colleges they probably would
have liked who were relying on exams and
mocks later on in the year to be able to
get the grades that they needed
but then there's also students that have
done really well in those that want
teacher assess grades
so whether you do some form of
assessment or you do teacher assessed
grades
there's always going to be sort of half
of the students that aren't going to be
happy with it
i found it really hard i only had a
couple of weeks of online lessons
astrid finley understands the pressures
and anxieties
she did her a-levels last year when a
controversial mathematical model was
used to determine grades but was
eventually scrapped
and replaced with teacher assessments
she's using her experience
to reassure students like max who are
worried about their futures with my year
group we went through
the um algorithm system that um was put
in place by the government and
obviously there was that was obviously
not effective
at all so hopefully having gone through
that there's a new
year group of kids who will hopefully
have a bit more of a revised
a bit more of an effective um way to
produce these grades
i really hope we do tomorrow the
government will outline how students
will be assessed and graded that's the
big worry now
for students like max the anxious wait
for exam results day
has been replaced with anxiety about
what results will be based on
elaine dunkley bbc news