SCHOOLS may have been closed but that doesn’t mean teaching isn’t happening.

Ramsbury Primary has been shut to all but keyworkers’ children since March 20.

But classes have been learning via Google Classroom, which means teachers can set tasks, provide information, send videos and links and children can all post comments and talk to their teachers.

Jo Rean, assistant head at Ramsbury, said: “Using Google Classroom has given both teachers and children a way of keeping in touch every day and we are all very glad of that opportunity at a time our regular face-to-face contact is missing.”

Tasks set have not been compulsory, but have allowed a mixture of independent working and working supported by parents, following each class’s current topic and curriculum.

For Key Stage 1 – in keeping with their dinosaur topic – Class R have been On a Bear (dinosaur) Hunt, making obstacles to go over, under and around, writing signs for the dinosaur’s cave, doing cosmic yoga to retell the story and measuring their own and their family’s feet to compare with the foot of a T-Rex.

In Key Stage 2, Class 3 came up with projects as part of Children’s Choice, including creating bug hotels, rainbow weaving and programming robots.

Class 6 used different liquids in their kitchens to investigate surface tension, sharing their findings with their classmates and teachers and, for a Class 4 there was a magic numbers challenge, and children improvised at home to find their own maths counters, including fizzers, midget gems and pompoms.

“As well as the daily videos and whole school game of ‘guess who is in the barrel’, my favourite moment so far has been the full class video call – wonderful!” said one parent with child in Class 5.