Learning & Development Centre Ltd - LDC

Online-Learning at-Home Project

Learning & Development Centre is pleased to launch its online-learning at-home project, which is a great opportunity for the Supplementary School customers whose learning activities have been interrupted by the pandemic crisis of Covid-19. The project is supported by the London Community Response Fund aiming to support communities affected by the Corona-virus crisis.

Backgrounds:
Due to the pandemic crisis of Covid-19, LDC has launched online learning-at-home project to support its beneficiaries by offering tuition classes, advice & information. LDC is best placed to deliver the online learning-at-home project, because:
• LDC has staff/Coordinator, Board members & tutors who have long-term proven managerial & teaching professions, skills and experiences for delivering a range of project activities & services over the last 19 years.
• LDC has managed to survive from possible closure, while more than 95% of minority ethnic community organisations have been closed down due to the financial problems since 2008;
• LDC has its own resourceful Learning Centre, which is available at any time for the delivery of its activities & services;
• Despite financial challenge throughout the years, LDC has successfully delivered its main activities & services without interruption for nearly 20 years.
• LDC has celebrated recently the Quality Mark Award recognised by the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education (NRCSE).

Objectives:
The main objectives of the online learning-at-home are to:
• help our target beneficiaries (local children & young people) reduce the negative impact of the pandemic Covid-19 and achieve their learning objectives that have been interrupted by the Corona-virus crisis since March 2020.
• Encourage children /young people to stay at home and protect themselves from the corona virus infection.
• Enable children and parents to manage the challenges of Covid-19
• Create opportunities for primary and secondary school children & young people that enable them to continue their learning activities at home during this corona-virus crisis

Beneficiaries:
LDC target beneficiaries are the local disadvantaged children & young people from minority ethnic communities & low-income families. Since the online-learning project was launched on 16th May 2020, 87% of our beneficiaries have been registered to attend the online-Learning tuition classes. Although, learning online programme, particularly during the pandemic Covid-19 crisis is a great advantage for most children/young people who have more self-motivation based on their maturity, we found it hard for some students who are too young and have no more self-motivation and cannot stay motivated because of their age and some other reasons.
We have now launched to provide in the first phase of our online-learning at-home project activities/classes for our existing & new students whose school year 4 –11, while the students whose school year 1-3 is to be joining the programme in the second phase of the project in the beginning of July 2020.

Timetable of Tuition Classes:
The online tuition classes will be running on Saturdays and Sundays for the next three months (May – August 2020)
Saturdays: 1st Session of Maths & English from 10am – 11:30am
Saturdays: 2nd Session of Maths, English/Science from 11am – 12:30am
Saturdays: 3rd Session of Home-language classes from 14pm 16:30pm

Sundays: 1st Session of Maths & English from 10am – 11:30am
Sundays: 2nd Session of Maths & English/Science from 11am – 12:30pm

Expected outcomes:
• Improved educational performance & attainment along with strong motivation, encouragement & self-confidence in pursuing their higher & further education through the delivery of curriculum subjects (Maths, English & Science);
• Developed sporting habits, physical strength and better awareness of healthy eating for tackling obesity & poor health in their future lives & careers through the delivery of advice & information for physical activity & healthy eating awareness;
• Enhanced positive self-esteem, moral/ethical values and personal identity through the delivery of Home-language lessons and promotion of self-esteem.
• Reduced negative impact of Covid-19 on our target beneficiaries through the replacement of the normal classroom setting with the online learning-at-home.

Safeguarding:
Before we launched the online-learning-at-home programme, we made safeguarding assessments and as a result, relevant safeguarding policies and systems have been in place, in order to enable the Supplementary School to deliver its teaching & learning provision safely and make sure that pupils are safe during the online-learning at-home programme.
Children & young people, who are attending the online-learning at-home programme, are generally safe, because they are at their own home with their parents & carers. We therefore, need to focuss on communication and e-safety, which includes awareness of the dangers associated with the internet, emailing, text messaging and other forms of digital communication or access.

Communication Code of conduct:
All students & teachers should abide by the code of conduct below, and any disclosures or concerns have to be reported to the LDC Office Coordinator. The online-learning at-home participants (students/parents and teachers) are therefore, expected to:
• use the internet and other forms of communication in a safe, sensible and respectful way;
• use only LDC official email and mobile text messaging or access and use other resources that are legal, and will not hurt or upset anyone.
• get a person’s permission before using their personal information or photo

Safety Care: for security, safety and wellbeing of all participants in our online-learning at-home programme,
• Students & parents should not open emails, downloads and attachments from unknown or untrustworthy sources as they may contain malicious software and information;
• Teachers & students should not use Social Media channels (e.g. Facebook and Instagram), unless they are LDC Supplementary School’s official account.
• The students and their parents should not have access to details of the teacher’s private life and teachers should be mindful of what they post on social media sites.
• Teachers should not advertise their supplementary teaching job on their own social media pages.
• Students should not be exchanging personal details including social media links with each other unless it is with parental agreement at some other time.
• Parents need to know when online meetings/classes are scheduled and who will be appearing, name, role in the LDC Supplementary School and they need to know what to expect and should be invited to see the teacher initially on the online meeting/class.

Contact details:
Merha Kennaw
Project Coordinator