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Reimagining teaching and learning: A blended approach

The coronavirus lockdown has inspired a new blended approach to teaching and learning for the primary schools of the Unlimited Teaching School Alliance. Executive headteacher Andrew Truby has produced a short resource for other primary schools outlining some of the research and thinking behind their work...

The coronavirus lockdown has presented many challenges to schools. However, we have tried to seek out positive opportunities and developing our use of technology has been one example of this.

As primary schools, we noticed that a lot of the guidance was aimed at secondary level, with an assumed level of independence for the pupils with many of the online learning approaches. As such, we have worked hard to develop a remote learning offer that will meet the needs of all of our pupils throughout the primary years. I would go as far as to say that the lockdown period has done more for enhancing teachers’ digital technology skills than the many years that we spent trying to develop virtual learning platforms a decade ago.

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