In preparation for live teaching we have put together a policy to ensure the safeguarding of all stakeholders. Please take some time to read it and do not hesitate to contact us should you have any questions or concerns.
Live Teaching Policy
Aim: To maintain contact between home and school as well as for the children to have contact with each other as a class during school closure.
The following policy outlines the expectations of staff, parents/carers and pupils regarding Google Meet conferences. All live meetings will be recorded for safeguarding purposes. The recorded meetings will not be shared unless requested by relevant authorities.
This policy will be shared with parents/carers of children taking part in any Zoom calls arranged by the school. By accessing the link shared to Google Classroom before the call is scheduled to take place, parents acknowledge that they accept the school’s Live Teaching policy and that they are giving permission for their child to take part in the call.
Staff:
- To inform and share information to parents/carers regarding the time and date the night before the Meet via text.
- Calls will never be shared with pupils without parent involvement.
- Lead teacher to be in control of meeting settings.
- Lead teachers to dress appropriately and use appropriate language as expected in school.
- Meeting details and passwords to only be shared with those who have given permission for their child and accepted the school policy.
- Two members of staff will be involved with all video calls.
- Where parents have requested that their children cannot access the Meet, ensure that the link for the Meet will not be shared with these pupils.
To protect Parents/Carers and Pupils:
- By accessing the link shared to Google Classroom before the call is scheduled to take place, parents/carers acknowledge that they accept the school’s Live Teaching policy and that they are giving permission for their child to take part in the call.
- Use only your child’s existing Google Classroom account to access the Meet.
- We will always make sure that there are two adults on the video call and we would like parents to be alongside when our call takes place.
- There should be no inappropriate content on any of our video calls. Please contact the school if you are concerned about any of the content of the video call.
- All pupils to dress appropriately and use appropriate language as expected in school. Furthermore, pupils are to address peers as they would in school.
- Pupils to not share personal information, take photos, screenshots, or share email addresses during video conferences.
- If necessary, lead teachers will remove pupils for disruptive or unacceptable behaviours during conferences. Once removed, pupils cannot be re-admitted to the Meet.
- It is the responsibility of parents/carers to supervise logging on.
- Parents/carers and pupils to not share meeting details and passwords with others. If parents/carers misplace or forget log in details, please ask school for a reminder via windyrl@gatedu.org and these will happily be given.
- Parents to inform school by contacting the school office or emailing windyrl@gatedu.org if they do not wish for their child to access the Meet sessions, in order that teachers can remove their child’s account from the post to share the link.
