Schools and Education Partners

Our Schools Support Teams have been busy helping Education Partners to adapt to a world of online teaching and resources. We are currently supporting 230 schools on Office 365 and Google Classroom and have set up remote teaching/learning elements in Teams, Class Notebook and Assignments within Office 365 for 152 schools,

enabling over 30,000 pupils to

learn remotely. There are some education providers with differing needs and the approach has been adapted to meet their needs, which includes: • Aycliffe Young People’s Centre This young people’s centre has special requirements in terms of safety and security of the young people they support but still need ICT to play a part in the learning of those pupils. An online system

was developed to provide each young person their own private

workspace accessible only for them and their teachers. A read only shared content library was also created for teachers to store resources, worksheets and other materials to assist their students. Security adaptations were made to restrict internet access and remove the email service to ensure the learning environment was appropriate for residents use whilst still

providing a safe place for students and teachers to communicate for

learning purposes. • The Woodlands The Woodlands Pupil Referral Unit requested the introduction

of Microsoft Teams to facilitate

remote teaching and learning for their pupils during the pandemic. Class Teams and pupil accounts were created; however, extra

security measures were applied

as pupils at this facility are taught separately from one another. The Teams working approach was successfully customised to reflect this.

•Education Health Needs Teams

- Group for Anxious Pupils (GAP) A remote learning solution was

developed to enable GAP to continue to engage with and support students with Education Health Needs in specific Core subjects on both a one to one basis and in small groups. • Remote Learning The Schools Support Teams used existing platform technologies to link schools’ Sims databases to Office 365, allowing pupil accounts to be automatically created. This has allowed the Team to set up

150 schools with Office 365 and

Google pupil accounts, including

41 of these schools using a

Google-365 hybrid set up, allowing both pupils and staff to sign in both platforms with one account as well as secure sign on into devices such as Chromebooks. Training has also

been delivered to over 60 schools

individually between September and December, with many more schools attending virtual events that the Learning Cloud Team have supported including working in conjunction with Education Durham and Microsoft.