Preparing to return to your school buildings? Ready to address and solve Post pandemic problems? These documents are designed to help senior leaders. Distance learning has catapulted teachers into the 21st century. As in many other professions, teachers have had to rapidly learn new skills and adjust their approaches in a few short weeks. School leaders have discovered many benefits of distance learning which must NOT be lost when schools return to their buildings. These advantages are listed here and need to be discussed by senior, middle and aspiring leaders to ensure they are not swamped by the practicalities of social distancing and virus eradication. There are five main benefits of distance learning seen during the lockdown: possibility of learning anywhere/anytime; students can take control of their own learning; there is an increase in the diversity of learning opportunities; greater involvement of parents in the learning process; real life experiences of working in the world of work. • Why not use the checklist to see how far your school has journeyed into the world of distance learning? • Ask different stake-holders to complete the document and compare their scores. • Complete the audit when school re-opens, then at the beginning of the next two terms. What does the result tell you?

Can’t use the labs because of lockdown and distance learning? There are lots of interesting and exciting websites that offer science learning experiences – virtual physics labs, animations, videos, simulations. This resource has collected the information together in one place to save you time and effort. This is part of a series of virtual labs - biology, chemistry and general science Virtual biology labs Virtual chemistry labs Involve your students in REAL science through citizen science experiences. Citizen science biology Citizen science chemistry Citizen science physics Citizen science bundle https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/citizen-science-projects-all-three-sciences-12245471 Benefits of distance learning – after lockdown https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/benefits-of-distance-learning-after-lockdown-12320055 Catch up after lockdown https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/catch-up-after-lockdown-12320060 Find out what your students learned during lockdown Students Audit post pandemic Take your students out on a virtual visit

As Senior Leaders prepare to return to their school buildings and get ready to address and solve Post pandemic problems these documents are designed to help understand what has been happening to learning. The documents are based on current monitoring of over fifty Distance Learning lessons in a wide variety of schools, across all ages and abilities. The resource consists of a series three audits; one for parents, one for students and one for teachers. These will help you to identify some problem areas and some positive areas on which to build! This one is for teachers. To find audit for parents. To find audit for students. Further help is available Advice to parents Benefits of distance learning – after lockdown Catch up after lockdown

This is a detailed five page teacher guide about how to use the audits if Essential Digital Skills of both teachers and students, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills. After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government Essential Digital Skills Framework which defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills audits for teachers • Digital Foundation skills audit for students • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers • Digital Communication skills audit for students • Digital Handling Information and content skills audit for teachers https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/digital-handling-information-and-content-skills-audit-teachers-12408412 • Digital Handling Information and content skills audit for students https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/digital-handling-information-and-content-skills-audit-teachers-12408412 • Digital Transaction skills afor teachers https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/digital-transaction-skills-audit-for-teachers-12408454 • Digital Transaction skills for students https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/digital-transaction-skills-audit-for-students-12408460 • Digital Problem-Solving skills for teachers https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/digital-problem-solving-skills-audit-for-teachers-12408432 • Digital Problem-Solving skills for students https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/digital-problem-solving-skills-audit-for-students-12408437 • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills for teachers https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/digital-being-safe-and-legal-online-skills-audit-for-teachers-12408953 • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills for students https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/digital-being-safe-and-legal-online-skills-audit-for-students-12409120 The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings.

So you students are back! How do you find out what happened to their learning during lockdown and how are you going to help them catch up? This resource help you clarify your thinking and produce an effective strategy to help students catch up as quickly as possible according to their learning needs. By using the three tools provided you can take simple steps to identify the best groupings and strategies needed. There is detailed guidance to use the triage concept favoured by hospitals: **Step 1 **Use Student Audit to find out about their learning during lockdown Step 2 Use Blank triage sheet to classify them into three groups Step 3 Use complete triage sheet to get ideas and strategies for your nine subgroups. Other post pandemic resources available: Audit parents Audit teachers Advice to parents Benefits of distance learning Catch up after lockdown Family projects Knowledge audit International learning opportunities SEN modifications for distance learners Software to enhance distant learning Virtual biology lab virtual chemistry labs Virtual physics Virtual visits