Current Year 10 2020/2021 support thread

Ours sent one year group home for one day whilst they investigated who the person might reasonably have come into contact with then asked those people to stay home for the requisite amount of time. It’s not perfect but I think preferable- sort of.

Year 10 overall seem to be coming along nicely though, all things considered here.

@QueenMabby in a way it sounds sensible to decrease bubble sizes within any given year group but just makes life more complicated, I would have thought? However, DD is not in the same form or sets as her best friend so if they did introduce something similar at her school, I think she'd be in two bubbles (which defeats the point surely?).

We have cases in yrs 11 and 13. Interestingly the whole of yr 13 were sent home but in yr 11 it’s only a “contact group”. Interesting. School are also talking about decreasing bubbles down from a whole year group. Don’t envy them that logistical nightmare!

There's a case in DD's school but presumably not in her year group as there have been no instructions to keep her off.

That should read perectly healthy

My one year 10 is off now due to a case and my other is in school (different one).

The one who is having to SI is perfectly happy. It was an options class so others in his year 10 are learning. He's been set some homework but hasn't been set other work yet. Meanwhile his classmates are in school learning. This leaves those at home disadvantaged.

@NewModelArmyMayhem18 Exactly - I can see what the schools are trying to do - and I can't see how else they can do things - but I suspect the kids will be in for a bit, then out for a couple of weeks, then back in again etc for months to come
It's so disruptive...

@Gumbo I hear what you're saying. One of DD's best friends has a sister in a different year group bubble (and she won't be the only one - some may have more than one sibling at the school), so effectively the b/f is in two bubbles (and possibly by default so is everyone in their year group who she has lessons with/fraternises with).

DS's school has a child who has tested positive in another year group so that year is now off for 2 weeks. However, given that 2 of DS's friends have siblings in that year I assume it's only a matter of time before someone in Y10 gets it too.

It all feels so precarious...

@HelloDulling DD has her eyes tested recently and needs glasses - we are waiting on the prescription to come through now (taps foot impatiently). It can make a world of difference, although I'm not sure that DD's shortsightedness (mild) hasn't been brought on by too much time staring at a computer screen!

DD complaining of headaches every day, have booked eye test on Weds, so she’ll miss maths. She’s not pleased, but there’s not much else I can do. The wait for a weekend or evening was weeks, and then we’ll have to wait for the new specs.

Just heard someone in Year 9 hasn’t tested positive so they all have to stay home tomorrow.

A rather prominent person is now isolating and their child is in DS2’s Year so I am anticipating him being at home at some point.

That's DD's year been sent home this afternoon, and yr9 at lunchtime.......waiting to hear from school to see what happens next

This is my worst nightmare but more from my y5 pov. He has just started to become positive about school, it would be awful for him to be off again. But, I’ve accepted I have no control over this stuff and am lucky that I have flexibility to accommodate it.

Here’s hoping we all get through this year.

My two are at home. Dd (year 7) started with a temp on Saturday so we’ve sent away for a test (no walk in or drive ins available). Typically she’s now come out in a full snotty cold so I’m expecting the test to be negative despite her cough 🤞🏻

Online learning seems to have worked ok for ds today - they just streamed the lessons on teams for him.

[quote TheOnlyMrsW]@middleager I'm on standby too, the positive case last week was in year 7 who are bubbled in forms so they are all at home for two weeks, along with a few from other years who the child was close to on the bus. DD told me over the weekend that a boy in her form was sent home on Friday with symptoms and told to get a test - he'd been sent in anyway [shocked]. A positive test will send the whole year home so I don't think it will be long........[/quote]
It feels like a waiting game.
If that student even get a test!

@middleager I'm on standby too, the positive case last week was in year 7 who are bubbled in forms so they are all at home for two weeks, along with a few from other years who the child was close to on the bus. DD told me over the weekend that a boy in her form was sent home on Friday with symptoms and told to get a test - he'd been sent in anyway [shocked]. A positive test will send the whole year home so I don't think it will be long........

Thanks. I'm on standby as both of the schools are inner city and the primaries nearby also have cases.

@middleager that doesn't sound good...

I really do hope that the schools have put in place proper contingency plans for quarantining year group bubbles.

I have two year 10s at different schools. Both schools have cases now and we are in Birmingham where there were 11,000 cases in the past week.

Every day I expect to get 'the text' from either/both schools.

DD has double chemistry and triple geography today - more like doing A-Levels type of timetabling! She was not impressed.

@crazycrofter we just all have to play it by ear don’t we. What else is there. I totally understand not wanting them to miss content.

DS is off today as he has a hygienist appointment and an orthodontist appointment and wouldn’t be going in until last period. He is a grafter and will seek out missed work so I’m just going to enjoy my day with him, they happen far too infrequently.

Definitely get her assessed if you can @naem. We went via the local youth mental health services I think - they seem to deal with all sorts of conditions like anxiety, self harm and also ADHD. In the end it was quite a quick process - I submitted a request, we got an appointment with a psychiatrist there, then both us and the school had to complete long questionnaires about his issues and he got the diagnosis.

Ds is off school today - already! Sore throat and aches, so no need to do a covid test and I’m hoping it’s just a cold as dh has also felt similar. I’m worrying about him missing content but what can you do?

@Canklesforankles That video really does sound like my DD. The one daydreaming out of the window, and taking longer to finish tests and spacing out when people are talking. Thank you for that, I have saved the reference so I can discuss it with the SenCo if necessary (she has been working with extra time since Year 7, and it is her regular way of working, but when I emailed last year, they said they were all going to be reassessed at the end of Year 9. Of course that didn't happen due to lockdown, but I have emailed the SenCo to find out what they are doing about it). SenCo seemed clueless about why DD was so slow, but everybody acknowledged that she was only finishing about 70% of a test, but getting most of it right up to the point at which she stopped, and so they trialled extra time, and it has helped immensely.
@NewModelArmyMayhem18 DD went up in both science and maths in Year 7 once she got the extra time, proving that it was simply slowness on the tests that was holding her back. But she is extreme in terms of slowness, I think. We have had endless problems with the double load of not finishing work in class, and then taking extra long to do homework. Extra time is all very well in exams and tests, but if all your homework takes one and a half times (and at home I think it can be worse, sometimes) it ends up being a bit of a nightmare. I do do things that I would not otherwise approve of, like if she has spent the allocated time on it, I then take over and ask her to dictate and I do the typing or take over the mundane chores (cut and and stick in books, or get her books ready for the next day and pack her bag), so that she has time to actually learn, and to have some downtime. Otherwise she does get so exhausted. But then you worry how she will manage in life if you are not there to do that, and are you doing her any favours.
@singingstones the ADD/ADHD video does feel more right than that it is an epilepsy absence, but it is a worrying thought, and I will keep a watch out in case we are missing it. It does make sense to consider all possible options.

We’ve never had any sleepovers, though DS2/3 have been to them.