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  • well in all parts of the UK, schools are closed to all pupils, except for vulnerable Children on those whose parents are key workers, parents and carers air having to supervise home schooling, with many lacking access to precisely the right technology and, in many cases, struggling with the cost.

  • Our education editor, Brahman Jeffries, has been talking to teachers, parents and pupils at a school in Stoke on Trent.

  • Empty classrooms again.

  • Most Children back at home.

  • Yeah, but but teachers in school planning online lessons, learning packs for pupils like bah e don't really.

  • I was quite shocked before, a sort of You know what I mean?

  • Angela can't believe it's happening again.

  • She works in our A days, a dinner lady.

  • Now she'll have daughter Lily learning at home.

  • She'll sit there.

  • Apartments, five minutes.

  • That's good.

  • If you can get a focus for five minutes and then it's the minutes ticked by.

  • She's gone watching the video.

  • I've got to sit with her because she's looking around.

  • Aren't you spending around standing on red schools have spent the day working out how to help families.

  • It's not just about moving lessons online.

  • Some Children are still learning on their parents.

  • Mobil's on a day off pairs, Ugo data on lessons could cost almost £100 leading to calls for data for education to be made cheaper or free.

  • Some Children we found in the last lock down didn't access to Zoom catching up with his head.

  • Teachers across Stoke.

  • Even with schools contacting families, some teens lose confidence.

  • Log out of lessons, disconnect from learning.

  • What really worries May is where those students aren't engaged and don't connect.

  • And they're not there for learning, even with the intervention.

  • What they're doing every day, possibly they're not in the house, possibly there on the streets, but the only thing that stops them walking.

  • It's school without school being there.

  • They walk in a different direction completely.

  • It was like a The moment was shopping.

  • But many parents, like Vicky are determined to do their best with four daughters.

  • That's tough.

  • In lock down, she'll have to help the youngest most keeping going, worrying about what they're missing.

  • You should be with a teacher is able to have that attention to teach them properly.

  • There's a moment you can't do that properly because you're not qualified, does what obsolete?

  • You do your best to do what you can, but that's what utter that's always says with me.

  • I'll get screen, affect their grades.

  • And then, mentally, more than half a million devices have reached pupils.

  • The government is aiming to double that with MAWR on the way to help those not in class but a home Brown.

  • When.

  • Jeffries BBC News.

  • Let's stay with schools because the BBC has announced it's biggest ever selection of educational programs for Children who are staying at home during lock down.

  • From next Monday, there will be a least five hours of programming on CBBC and BBC two for both primary on secondary school Children.

  • Ondas schools are indeed closed to most pupils.

  • Ministers confirmed that this year's G C S E.

  • S on day levels in England are being canceled.

  • Scotland and Wales have already announced the cancelation of major schools exams.

  • Some vocational exams in England, including B techs, are still going ahead, though there is growing pressure to cancel them as well.

  • Our education correspondent Elaine Dunkley has been talking to some of those who were due to sit exams during the summer, a daunting walk into the exam room, and for millions of students, there has been confusion over whether they'll take place.

  • It's just a bit nerve wracking because I'm not such essence, my marks.

  • So it just brings back all the memories of exams.

  • Millie's level to be take examine sports studies is still due to go ahead next week, but her GCSE exams have been canceled.

  • Me for one.

  • I'm really stressed about exams because we've missed so much and like, it's just really hard, most of it myself to get up in the morning because I've not been in a straight routine for ages on its been remote learning andare disruption, toe learning has been getting worse.

  • Seen as more people are getting co vid on, it's just been really hard.

  • We've covered like not even half of the A level Spec.

  • Max Bamford is doing a levels he's been revising for MOX, which were due to take place in two weeks but have now being canceled.

  • So I think the issue is there's people out there who have not done well in assessments within school and colleges.

  • They probably would have liked who were relying on exams and mocks later on in the year to be able to get the grades that they needed.

  • But then there's also students that have done really well in those that want teacher S s grades.

  • So whether you do some form of assessment or you do teacher s s grades, there's always gonna be sort of half of the students that aren't gonna be happy with it.

  • I I found it really hard, only had a couple of weeks of online lessons.

  • And Astrid Finley understands the pressures and anxieties.

  • She did her A levels last year when a controversial mathematical model was used to determine grades but was eventually scrapped and replaced with teacher assessments.

  • She's using her experience to reassure students like Max, who were worried about their futures.

  • With my agree, we went through the algorithm system that was put in place by the government and obviously there was.

  • That was obviously not effective at all.

  • So I'm hopefully having gone through that.

  • There's a New Year group of kids who will hopefully have a bit more of a revised a bit more of a nif effective way to produce these grades.

  • Tomorrow the government will outline how students will be assessed and graded.

  • That's the big worry for students like Max.

  • The anxious wait for exam results Day has been replaced with anxiety about what results will be based on Elaine Dunkley, BBC News.

well in all parts of the UK, schools are closed to all pupils, except for vulnerable Children on those whose parents are key workers, parents and carers air having to supervise home schooling, with many lacking access to precisely the right technology and, in many cases, struggling with the cost.

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