How big will your child's year bubble be?

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I saw someone recently saying their secondary school had a 12 class intake. Assuming 30 per class that's 360 children per year which is huge - is this common or just a one off?

DD and DS both have relatively small year groups - 80 for DD in secondary and 32 for DS in primary and I'm nervous enough.

My two are both in the same bubble which covers years 3 to 6, but that is only about 20 kids in total as it is a small school.

Massive secondary school, "bubble" is around 450 kids.
When someone tests positive (and they will) that's 450 families in quarantine for 2 weeks!

60. Primary school, but they are having the year group as a bubble rather than each class as an individual bubble.

That's insane herladysheep.

Ds1 is at secondary school,it's not a massive school though so the year group is the bubble around 170,big enough though,ds2 is in a special school I think 2 classes are bubbling up,but there's only around 8 pupils in each class so a bubble if 16 ish .

If they are sharing toilets and corridors then it’s a whole school bubble.

320 in her year.

Bubbles?
Wtf?
Time to end this bubble nonsense now.
It should never have begun.
When a friend recently asked me , when I said , I’d met up with a couple of people, she was like..are they in your bubble?
I felt like saying ..ffs, you’re an adult what on Earth are you resorting to this infantilising speech for.
Give me strength! 😡

The whole of the sixth form

29 children and 3 staff (1 TA plus 2 part time teachers)

350 in each year group

Well over a thousand at DD's 6th form college

Bubbles are a total nonsense

Bubbles are no longer relevant as once out of school they go home, to more people who have been out to work and met more people.

Bubbles should go.

Clean hands. Social distancing as far as is workable. Non sharing of stuff. Good cleaning routines. Masks where possible.

200
Bubble bullshit

Year bubbles for both, 90 for DD and 120 for DS not including staff of course.

Bubbles of over 300 each for 2 DC at secondary.

It's the 30 pupils in the class for inside, but 60 outside (at lunchtime etc). No group work mixed between the two classes in the year like they usually do.

But every class is linked to every other class via siblings anyway...

Bubbles are ridiculous and should just go. Just window dressing to give people a false sense of security. I’d be happier to send my children back to school without bubbles. Just a load extra hassle for schools with barely any benefit.

Primary school ( Ireland )
Dd has a bubble of 27 and in her pod is just 4

DS in a 4 firm entry primary school. Each bubble will be 120 children.

DD is in a "bubble" of 240. However the school have re-organised their timetable restrict the number of children any individual is in direct contact with, which I think reduces her effective bubble to about 50. They only have to self-isolate if they've been in direct contact with the infected person.

We need a new term though - "bubble" made sense when it was 10-15 in a small socially distanced group, like it was before the holiday. Now it's just a mass of people.

Nursery DD in a bubble of 12. Year 4 DS in a bubble of 15. Secondary school DSD and DSS in bubbles of 400....

I had a meeting at DSs secondary school today.
They say there are bubbles but the children all change lessons at the same time, they move classes every hour, they share teachers and TAs. As a visitor I was walking around the school and was within a less than 2 meter distance of quite a few students/staff. Staff were standing in groups together without any social distancing or masks. Desks were tightly packed together. The only thing I saw which gave any clue of the virus was a few bottles of hand gel.

Technically, for my DDs' (Y7 & Y9), it's going to be their 180 year group, but they're also keeping each house separate with two houses coming together for things like PE and similar, so it's more likely 60 + staff in practice except entering & leaving at their year entrances and even more practically, their entire school. I imagine the scooter and bike racks will be more difficult this year.

My Y11 DS will be in a bubble of 10 if everyone previously in his course returns plus 2 teachers. His career progression class is being delayed "until bubbles can be expanded", but they may hold it online instead. It's at a college so running a lot of different things so I'm not surprised they're being more careful.

Bubbles are total nonsense. I’ve got 3 children, each in a “bubble” of 100, each in a different setting because of their ages meaning our immediate exposure is 300 families minimum.

Each is then in a different “bubble” at two different sports and one external tutor.

Each teacher they come into contact with could have the same arrangement for their own children or elderly relatives, but at different schools or care homes and different ages or level of infirmity in possibly different counties.

It’s a farce.