Facilitating a broad and balanced curriculum during distance learning

Context Ryders Hayes is a two-form entry primary school with students aged two to eleven, from pre-school to Year 6. The school has 472 students on roll and is located in the Midlands, UK. Eighteen per cent of students are currently eligible for Pupil Premium funding. The school is predominantly a white-British school with about three per cent of students speaking EAL. About 20 per cent of students have SEND. The school is an academy and converted in 2011. Until last year it was a teaching school and is now the primary partner of the local teaching hub school. The school works with specialist hubs having a number of their own specialist teachers, including with a computing hub. Innovation CPD is paramount in our research-informed school and as soon as the pandemic hit, we made sure to read as much as we could around the topic of distance learning. Our school has always been a Microsoft school but we switched to becoming a Google school at the start of the pandemic because it felt m