Support for Success

Remote education

Accessing remote learning

Home Learning

Home learning at Henry Cort Community College is set via Edulink and plays a vital role in reinforcing, extending, and enriching classroom learning. It helps prepare students for success in their GCSEs and beyond, supporting them in becoming independent, confident learners.

A Balanced Approach

To ensure home learning is manageable and meaningful, we follow a structured timetable:

• Key Stage 3: Students follow a two-week timetable with up to 8 home learning tasks per week, each lasting approximately 30 minutes.
• Key Stage 4: Students follow a one-week timetable with a minimum of 7 tasks per week, each lasting between 45 minutes to 1 hour.

This clear structure helps students pace themselves, manage their time effectively, and stay on track with their learning goals.

Purposeful and Varied Tasks

All home learning tasks are carefully designed by our staff to complement classroom teaching and make use of trusted online platforms such as Sparx and Seneca. These tasks are varied, focused, and tailored to support student progress.

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Support for Success

We are committed to helping every student succeed with their home learning. Support includes:

• Learning Support Sessions: Held every Thursday and Friday after school in the library—ideal for students needing extra help or a quiet space to work.
• Library Access: Open during break and lunch for computer use and quiet study.
• Parental Monitoring via Edulink: Parents can track task completion and stay informed about their child’s progress.
• Accountability: If a student fails to submit a task without a valid reason, this will be recorded on Edulink. Repeated missed tasks will result in contact home.

How You Can Help at Home

Your support makes a big difference. Here’s how you can help your child thrive:

• Talk regularly about their home learning.
• Offer encouragement and guidance when needed.
• Create a quiet, dedicated study space at home.
• Use Edulink to monitor progress and deadlines.
• Encourage attendance at Learning Support Club if they’re finding tasks challenging.

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Remote learning

Every student can access Google Classroom hubs using their @henrycort.co.uk email. Staff regularly reference the website during lessons, so we expect students to be aware of what they are learning and where they can find it.

Your child should be able to show you how work is accessed by clicking on the hub class and selecting the classwork option.  Most of our resources are in the form of voiced over presentations, along with supporting worksheets. If self-isolating students should email this work to their teachers once complete or print it off and bring it into school when they return. We would recommend parents also ask to be shown this work to check themselves.

If your child tells you, they are not aware of how to access work, or they know nothing about it, please double-check this is honest first.  If further guidance is needed please either call into the IT helpdesk or email them itsupport@henrycort.org

Limited access to IT and the internet is not an acceptable excuse for non completion of work, as the college will loan equipment as necessary.

Please note that homework is still set in the tradition way using Edulink, and Google Classrooms is being used as a repository for work that is being delivered in college.

* To enable narration these presentations will need to be downloaded and opened in Microsoft office .

How will my child access any online remote education you are providing?

Every student at Henry Cort has a G-mail address that acts as a login to a platform known as G suite.  The college has made use of a variety of G-suite services. These include:

• Classrooms (which acts as a virtual learning environment) - each subject has a hub where every lesson is available
• Meet (for hosting virtual lessons)
• Drive (for storage of student resources)
• Editor suite (which includes Google docs, sheets and slides) 
• Jamboard (as a virtual whiteboard)

If my child does not have digital or online access at home, how will you support them to access remote education?

We recognise that some students may not have suitable online/IT access at home. We take the following approaches to support those students to access remote education:

• If students do not have a PC, laptop or tablet then as a minimum expectation all households will be provided with a loaned device.
• The college endeavours to provide each student with their own device, if it can.
• If students do not have access to a microphone and/or video web camera these too can be loaned out (but please note that mobile phones and games consoles with cameras can also be used to connect).  Physical work will be viewed, wherever possible, using cameras.  If this is not possible, work should be photographed and uploaded.
• If students do not have an operating internet connection, or stable Wi-Fi, the college can loan 4G Wi-Fi USB dongles.

All the above actions have to be agreed, in the first instance by Mr Parker. The college reserves the right to withdraw equipment if it is abused or there is evidence that it is being requested inappropriately.  Technical Support can also be requested either via the itsupport@henrycort.org address or by phoning directly through to the college switchboard and requesting to be put through.

To view full details of our remote provision please download our remote education provision information for parents .

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UPDATED: 24 July 2025