1. Thread: A Shutdown Curriculum.

It's clear online remote learning isn't really working for most pupils in most schools. It's failing disadvantaged pupils the most. It's messy, hard to administer, stressful for some parents and impossible for others.

2. The problem is we have so many schools doing so many different things on so many different platforms that everyone's confused. Parents are exhausted just trying to understand how to access work. Some poorer families just can't.

3. Why not centralise this? For the period of shutdown make a Shutdown Curriculum. Create workbooks for all subjects and years with daily tasks. BBC to produce/curate programmes linked to daily tasks. Each day begins by going through answers to the questions from previous day.

4. Schools could be given budget to print materials for pupils who can't then post out.

5. Having lots of pupils nationally doing same thing would mean far easier for children, families and a schools to help each other.

6. Of course not a perfect solution but we're getting used to compromise. Some stuff would have already been covered for some schools. There would be arguments over quality, so..

7. ..this should not be mandatory. Schools happy with what they're already doing could carry on, but this would be an option.