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How to use ClassKick – A step by step guide for Parents and Carers
What is ClassKick?
ClassKick is the online learning portal that we have chosen to use during the school closure period.
We have chosen it because it is safe and also because it does not require children or their parents to have an email address.
What are the expectations for Home Learning for our children?
As we start to use online learning, our expectations are that we will set children:

• One online Reading Activity per WEEK – on top of the expectation that they read EVERY DAY to an adult for 15 mins
• One online Writing Activity per WEEK – on top of the expectation that the children access either SPaG online or Spelling Shed three times a WEEK
• One online Maths Activity per WEEK – on top of the expectations that the children access either TTRockstars or Numbots three times a WEEK

You know your children the best and you all have different daily routines that might involve working from home, going to work as a key worker or self-isolating.
For these reasons, we are not advising you on when these activities should take place and we are giving you a whole week to complete them because we do not want to add any pressure or stress to an already very difficult time.
This is a new way of working and will take time to get established.
Please be open minded and give it a go. Working as a team, I am sure we can overcome any hiccups as the system gets up and running.
How quickly are teachers expected to respond to a hand-up for help or feedback? (Updated June 1st)
From June 1st all of our teachers will either be working in school or not working on the advice of their doctor.
This means for those teachers who are working in school they will have worked from at least 8am to 4pm at school that day.
Many of them will then go home to their families and provide care for their own children and/or elderly relatives.
For this reason, I have taken the decision that once they get home after working in school, they will not be expected to give feedback on ClassKick.
What this means is that your child’s work will be checked by a teacher on either the Friday at the end of the week when the activity has been set, or the following Monday. This will depend on which days your child’s teacher normally works as some of them share the role with another teacher so that they can work part-time.
I know that this might be disappointing to hear, especially if you have children in Years 2, 3, 4, and 5 that are not coming back to school at the moment, but the health and well-being of the teachers is very important at this time.
They should not be expected to work 8 hours a day in school and then 2 hours more when they get home and they have put their own children to bed.
What are the expectations on the type of feedback given to the children? (Updated June 1st)
For the reasons set out above, from June 1st, all feedback to children will focus on whether the work is correct or not. Children will not be given advice on the next steps that they could make anymore.
 
How will the work be set?
Every Monday morning you will receive a text message from school.
On the message there will be three 6-figure codes, one for Reading, one for Writing and one for Maths.
For example:
Good Morning Willow Class. Your ClassKick codes this week are:
Reading:  RTY 5FG
Writing: H76 I5N
Maths: V12 12V