Corona Cohort Y12 into Y13, braving the storm of the third wave

[quote MirandaWest]@Monkey2001 she may be able to do it next Monday (albeit 40 miles away but that would be all right). Assuming she can stop isolating then and her singing teacher is able to go then as well![/quote]
Best of luck to her !

@Monkey2001 she may be able to do it next Monday (albeit 40 miles away but that would be all right). Assuming she can stop isolating then and her singing teacher is able to go then as well!

@mummabear74 we sent off the photo the second week of May I think, so yours shouldn’t be long.

I can’t imagine how it’s going to work either. I just hope this wave passes quickly. Sorry for those of you with vulnerable children or other considerations, it must be such a worry.

Monkey I can’t get my head round it either. I don’t see how it’s going to work in big secondary schools who will always have children who are vulnerable eg. Cancer treatment, badly asthmatic, neuro conditions. Also vulnerable parents with the same. Many pupils won’t test nor wear masks. And presumably siblings of positive cases come in as normal. So is the government leaving it to vulnerable children to risk assess when it’s too dangerous by children trying to find off whose ill and why? My Dd wouldn’t want to go in if we tested positive as she sits next to a boy whose dad is vulnerable and a girl whose younger sister is recovering from cancer. She would feel awful if she gave it to one of them. Dd is also vulnerable so no idea what’s going to happen for Year 13. I know we have the ‘please let us know if you have chickenpox because we have immuno compromised children’ letters regularly but the scale of covid is another level. And for A Level, where you don’t have supply at this level, how’s that going to work if their teachers are off sick for weeks?

@PaddingtonPaddington @Fferny1 we're still waiting since May for DDs provisional. Applied online with passport but said they needed further information and sent form asking for photo. Completed and sent back mid-May and to date the tracker is still showing as awaiting return of form. DD birthday not until mid-August but we were hoping to book a few lessons in the summer holidays.

Year 12 is now closed at DD’s school so that’s it for the year (although she will have some teams lessons I think). Ds has just finished his week off and goes back tomorrow- hopefully for his last four days! What a year..,

@Fferny1 If you need to provide any additional documentation like a passport photo etc it’s proving to be a very long wait. I assume you were able to link with a current passport so was all completed electronically. Great news for your DTs

Children’s school has shut until the end of term (23rd) apart from key workers children.
28 positive tests since Friday with 11 of them today.

Thank you for that - will have a good look.

My twins provisional license took a week! I was expecting it to take months after this thread 🤷🏼.

They never learn do they? How could they not have done this weeks ago??

www.gov.uk/government/consultations/proposed-changes-to-the-assessment-of-gcses-as-and-a-levels-in-2022/proposed-changes-to-the-assessment-of-gcses-as-and-a-levels-in-2022

Oh that’s interesting. Where is this secret consultation? I assume we can comment!

Dd has just sent me this link :
www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-57808229

@crazycrofter fantastic news!! Hopefully that means DDs will be here soon too, fingers crossed.

@Alsoplayspiccolo Sorry to hear about what your DD has been through. Hopefully the summer holiday will be what she needs to have a break from it all

@Orangecinnamon21 happy birthday to your DD.

DD not 17 till next month so will be a while before she can get the vaccine.

Awaiting report and exam results this week. DD did one of her A level drama recordings last week and is working hard on the write up that goes with it (think it counts as 30% of final mark). She is very much in need of the end of term and some time off.

Nightmare at my school today. Lots of year 12s cba because of football so they stayed at home, and it feels like all the rest were pinged by the blessed app!!

I'd keep mine at home zanda...

My school still has nearly two weeks to go and I can't see how we are going to get there!!

No Zanda.

Finally Crazy

Question for you all: if nearly half the year group are isolating and some of the teachers (therefore half the lessons are ‘go to the IT suite and do set project work’) and there was a big Year12 indoor football watching party going on last night (unsurprisingly enough not on social media!), is it really worth going in for the next 2 weeks for my CV pupil? The school aren’t setting online live lessons as such. Rates here are only about 1 in 180 at the moment but that’s amongst the general population.
I have a feeling this is what autumn term is going to be like, but without the social media secrecy, as there’s no official isolation.

@crazycrofter I was speaking to a mum who's dd sent off in feb for provisional. Apparently they'd done something wrong so had to send something else in a few weeks later. But still not received it. That's a long time ago!

@crazycrofter - fantastic news!

@PaddingtonPaddington DD’s provisional licence has just arrived!

Interested to see how you get on taking your 17yo to a hub @Monkey2001. Can't see any sign they will let us do that here yet.

@Alsoplayspiccolo I'm sorry to hear what your dd has been through, but it was right (and brave) of her to speak up and hopefully she's prevented others being hurt in future.

We've just had confirmation from dd's school that the staggered starts will no longer apply from September. She'll have to get the 7.33 train instead of the 8.03! I'm not looking forward to that....