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I have to say I have loved helping my grand daughter with her school work virtually. We have enjoyed her maths which her mum doesn't like and it has been a real insight for me into how methods have changed since I was in school. I have had to do my homework before we start!

A regular routine works very well with my three grandchildren with a more formal home schooling, literacy and numeracy, in the morning, followed by science, geography, art work and PE in the afternoons. Always mindful of break times!
I keep in touch with my grandchildren by hearing them read first thing in the morning via Skype. Once a week I visit their home and listen to the children read, mindful of social distance.

Keep learning fun, try new things and do each subject in short blocks with a short play in the garden in between.

Videos are flying back and forth and social media and emailing has become a massive part of life!

We have been going into our daughter's garden once a week to see her and the two grandchildren age 9 and 5. We really miss the physical contact as normally we have lots of kisses and cuddles. They do their schoolwork ad I always make a point of talking to them about that and I always take down a book each for them to read, so much better than sweets. We also wander around the garden together, but at a distance looking at the flowers.

My grandson doesn't take well to tasks when i want him too so we play games and i win time to spend on lessons and is he wins he can choose the lesson this seems to work for us and on days were it doesn't we don't stress.

Great believer in learning should be fun, and plenty of praise! Can only see young dgds on zoom/WhatsApp so chat about their day and what they've enjoyed doing, and make suggestions for the next day.

My daughter-in-law was a teacher, so she works out a set plan of learning for each day for her three children. In the afternoon they do activities such as experiments, baking, and trips into the forest.

We Face Time in order to keep in touch regularly.

They have tried to keep to a routine with some home learning on a morning. While the the weather has been so good they have enjoyed many long walks in the beautiful countryside where we are so lucky to live.

My little grandsons are bright and lively. I do not worry about them missing formal education. They, like me, need to spend time outdoors getting rid of excess energy but they are interested in everything around them so don't realise when they are being educated about the outside world. They all love reading and gaming and although there are 3 of them miss being with their peer group friends. We look forward to them visiting when allowed in the future but meantime catch up mainly by facetime although I send the occasional letter and have enclosed favourite books and seeds to grow sunflowers and pumkins

Anything screen based seems to work. Also I have been writing stories based on a boy and girl similar to my grandchildren which have encouraged reading. (At least I hope they have!!!)

Turning some activities into a guessing game or quiz. They are thrilled that they are teaching me as well as being taught. I'm becoming an expert on obscure dinosaurs and the periodic table!

Staying in touch with grandchildren has always been virtual for us as we live far away. We engage by reading books together and singing songs.

Creating a veg patch just for the grandchildren. So many lessons can be learnt from growing your own food. And what a wonderful reward at the end!

I get my step-grandchildren to explain to me how to do things such as forming sentences and maths, they love teaching someone else, and it reinforces the information in their brains

Set a routine and make it as fun as possible, baking/maths, decorating the baking/art etc. Try to do the more challenging ones in mornings or on days when not so many tasks. Lots of 'well done' and a home-made 'I did well' chart.

As others have said, have a routine. Break up the activities so that you are not doing any one thing for too long. Outside time is important. Use the morning for the more intense subjects and the afternoon for more creative activities, science experiments etc.

Having a structured timetable set in place. When we have a planned itinerary my grand children are better at getting their work done and good at concentrating. They have really impressed me at how well they have all adapted

Our tiny tots seem to love having a very willing and devoted audience on the other side of the screen. It’s great for them to have all this unpressured attention. Their focus and language skills rock!

For one of my grandsons (aged 7), he has all of the daily school activities on sheets and is allowed to pick when and in which order he does things. This seems to give him some control over his day and has worked really well. He's become quite the gardener too, just recently his Mum called to say he'd rushed out into the garden to move his tomato plants into the sunshine. He also thought he might tape a cherry tomato to the stem to give me a surprise next time we facetime!
His cousins seem to work better with quite a rigid and intense timetable in the morning and then freetime after lunch.
I have been doing spellings with them over facetime which has been great fun and quite chaotic sometimes as signals are lost and frames freeze.

Encouragement and praise

Having a routine each day has helped my grandchildren (and their parents) with home schooling along with regular breaks and time outside.
Using facetime for keeping in touch and reading bed time stories has helped us to feel connected whilst we are apart.

I’ve sent little texts to the older ones and little parcels I’ve ordered just to show I’m still here and haven’t gone away. I feel as if we needed to keep the connection going. Especially when the little ones are missing schooling and learning. Face timed and zoomed.

I’ve tried to help online, but as they are both young, 1 and 4, I’ve not been able To do anything with them. The best I could do, was give my 4 year old grandchild 10p for every item he found on a nature hunt, put to one side for him until a later date.

Make things fun and interesting and lots of time spent outdoors