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@Jackandtay
I'm currently teaching in an international primary school in Tokyo and we've been doing 'distance learning' for three weeks now. From a teacher's perspective these are a few things we've found have worked:
Seesaw for KS1 kids
Google Classroom for KS2
Flipgrid for uploading and creating videos/films
IXL*
Virtual Fieldtrips
RAZkids*
*not free
Obviously, being able to access these depends on families having enough devices for their kids. Having taught in Peckham for 6 years, I'm well aware that many households don't. Even in an international school this has proved an issue, let alone the fact that 3 - 4 hours additional screentime a day is not ideal.
Nonetheless, we've set up a fairly loose timetable for the kids. In the first few days, lots of parents took the opportunity to travel, so we've ended up with kids at different points in their work. Each day we're providing an English, Reading and Maths lesson through Google Classroom, which follows the usual structure of what we do in school. Japanese, Music and PE teachers are also providing two lessons a week for kids. We've been uploading videos of us doing the work (the screencastify add on to chrome has been a life-saver) and making google forms/docs for the kids to work through.
We're also doing a whole class chat in Google Meet every day, and are encouraging kids to check in with us to review work once every couple of days. I do only teach 10 kids though.
It's by no means perfect but the feedback from the kids and their parents has been pretty positive. The thing I'm worrying about most for kids here is their well-being, but for those Peckham kids I'd also be worried about their access to food. I hope school kitchens can find a way to stay open.
If there are any teachers on the forum that want to chat anything through, please do get in touch as I've now got some KS2 resources I could send your way. In the meantime, we're due to reopen on the 30th March...