Oral Answers to Questions

Julie Marson Excerpts

Monday 22nd June 2020 Commons Chamber

[Simon Baynes (Clwyd South) (Con)]

What steps his Department is taking to support remote education during the covid-19 outbreak.

[Julie Marson (Hertford and Stortford) (Con)]

What steps his Department is taking to support remote education during the covid-19 outbreak.

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[Nick Gibb]

We are very grateful for the hard work and dedication of our teachers during this time and have highlighted the innovative work of schools in a series of recently published case studies. I congratulate those children at Ysgol Dinas Brân on producing more than 800 visors. It is a prime example of that very innovation.

[Julie Marson]

I pay tribute to the huge efforts that schools and their staff across Hertford and Stortford have made in supporting the children of key workers and are now making to get more pupils back to school. Does my right hon. Friend agree that schools have an opportunity to continue some of the innovations they have made, such as remote learning?

[Nick Gibb]

Remote teaching has been a significant challenge for teachers across the sector, and I am grateful to all those who have worked so hard to ensure their pupils’ education has continued despite the difficulties of lockdown. Some innovations will no doubt continue to be beneficial, and we are working with organisations such as the Education Endowment Foundation to take an evidence-based approach to establishing how schools can best use remote practices in future.