Online Home Learning

Willow Dene offers a high-quality personalised online learning provision for children and young people learning at home.  Children and young people occasionally may need to learn at home for a period of time, for example during  post-surgery recovery. In addition we want our families to be able to continue learning in the home environment. 

The Willow Dene ‘Further resources’ tab supports children and young people who can access virtual learning and provides information for families to lead resource-based learning at home, these include:

• Stories and activities filmed by teachers
• Group Music Therapy sessions
• Advice and links to useful sites
• Advice to support children and young people to regulate
• Advice from therapists supporting the use of visual aids
• Access to Busy Things and a range of apps and programmes to support learning (including relevant lessons from the Oak Academy provided by the DfE)

Children requiring access to real objects will be supported through bespoke learning packs crafted by their class teacher which are delivered to their homes. 

Google Classroom

We use Google Classroom to support home learning as needed.  Teachers may set appropriate learning tasks through this platform.  The length of these tasks will be set according to the needs of the child.  Lessons may consist of teachers modelling for parents to enable them to recreate a learning opportunity at home. Some learning opportunities will be repeated in order to support children’s learning profiles, to provide consistency and consolidation.

You can view our Remote Learning Policy on the Policy page of our website.