Remote learning and homework

In the event of your child need to work from home, it is important that they can continue their studies.

Your child has access to Sparx for Maths & Seneca for Science. The links for the sites are below and your child already has a log in for these sites. New work is added on a regular basis and is mapped so that it mirrors the in school work meaning your child will not miss out. Subject teachers and subject leaders monitor work completed and will provide feedback as appropriate on return.

Please see the below links for these, and also other revision materials:

Dixons Revision Website

BBC Bitesize

Seneca Learning

Sparx Maths

Also see the below Knowledge Navigators to be able to use to work from home. These are also used to complete homework.

We harness the power of feedback to increase student learning, by ensuring that feedback causes cognitive rather than an emotional reaction.

Our whole culture is built on feedback. At every Morning Meeting, after every lunch and at every line-up we reflect back on how the day has gone and the key highlights in learning. Everything we do is rooted in our three core values. Our teachers are fair and have real respect for their learners as people with ideas of their own. Their expertise earns the trust of learners; they are extremely hard-working, flexible and take every opportunity to maximise learning.

Read/Cover/Write/Check

At Dixons Cottingley Academy we use the process of Read / Cover/ Write/ Check to support learning.

It is essential that when students are learning through Read / Cover/ Write/ Check they are working in a silent environment free from distractions so they can focus their attention on what they are learning. If they can do this they will get the information they are learning into their working memory and if it goes into their working memory enough times it will be in the long term memory. Only when information/knowledge is in your long term memory have you actually learned it.

Students work in Silent Independent Mode

1. Students read up to four chunks of information from their 100% booklet
2. They cover it with their planner/ pencil case/ book
3. They try to write it down accurately from memory (integrity)
4. They check against their 100% booklet and correct errors and fill gaps in green pen
5. Repeat until they are able to write the information down accurately.

The Process

• Look at the first bullet point or sentence
• Read through it three to five times
• Cover with your planner
• Write it out exactly as it was in your 100% booklet
• Remove your planner and pick up your green pen
• Check what you wrote and tick if correct
• Make corrections in green pen so it is exactly as in your 100% booklet
• Repeat
• When you get it 100% right, move on to the next chunk of information

The Testing Effect

Once your child has completed look cover write check please test them on what they have learned.

You can support your child to remember 50% more of what they have studied if you test them after they have revised.