kenyancowgirl wrote:
There is also the very real problem of a high number of families not having access to good enough (or at all) IT/wifi to support it - there are families with more than one child and only one device so there is no guarantee a particular child can get online at a particular time.
If you are worried about him getting demotivated then you could contact the pastoral head? Our school is running fortnightly well being surveys and contact any student who needs it - they are sending out a huge amount of mental health support, alongside academic work, and the head does a letter each day to the entire school community.
DS2's HT may be one of my favourite people on this planet, but even I am quite happy that he hasn't decided to bless us with any more than the occasional missive (and I'm assuming that we would have heard about it long and loud from DS2, if the students were getting much more than we are

. So far, his main moan seems to have been about a couple of conflicting messages about how some of his work should be submitted).
The school still does AS levels, so those who teach the sixth form have formal assessments for both year 13 and year 12 to work on and, like
KS10's DD's HT, I would agree that this (and, obviously, the GCSE grading) needs to be a priority.