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School staff self isolating

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RecallRecall · 18/07/2021 20:42

I’m at primary school in a rural location . We had no staff or pupils off with Covid since before Christmas and that was only two staff members who were back pretty soon after.
Thursday and Friday last week lots of staff were off self isolating.Today I’ve found out through group chat that’s lots more are going to off this week. It’s the last week of term.
So does this mean we have a case at school? No bubbles or classes closed like last time. Why are so many of the staff off due to contact but not the children. Do SLT check people actually have a message?
I have a cruddy burner phone for my LFT but no test and trace.School told me last time to isolate.

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Bordernotboarder · 18/07/2021 20:54

There are so many cases in my area at the moment, that many staff are isolating due to contact/symptoms outside of school.

BlueSurfer · 18/07/2021 20:57

I think you would know if you had a case at school. It’s likely the staff and pupils have been told to isolate due to external contact.

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RecallRecall · 18/07/2021 21:35

The amount of staff isolating if it was from external contacts means most of the local population have it - or they’ve been really unlucky. Staff come from different towns and areas.

If that many staff are off due to external contacts how are the children not off if so much of the population have it.
We don’t have a third of the children missing?

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JanFebAnyMonth · 18/07/2021 21:39

Can you not ask someone OP?

WombatStewForTea · 18/07/2021 22:12

Or shock horror I'm friends with a lot of the teachers I work with and see each other out of school. Lots of our TAs are friends too. Chances are some of them met up outside of work and someone has tested positive.
Could be someone had a big birthday and had an outdoor gathering and someone there since tested positive

Timeisavirtue · 18/07/2021 22:21

A lot of staff have been self isolating at DS high school which forced them to ask year 8’s and 9’s to not come in next week for the last week of term and to do work via google classroom. DS has asd so I’ve told the, he won’t be doing homeschooling especially as in school they wouldn’t have been doing much anyway as they never do last week of term. They are only having year 7 and 10 in. So DS is currently living his best life right now. He’s had an extra 2 weeks almost as we were isolating for a few days as dd had symptoms but luckily was negative so was due back the Friday gone when they also told us for year 8 to be off school.

modgepodge · 18/07/2021 22:26

Are your implying that staff are lying to start their holidays early OP? Very unlikely. Some of our staff were off in the last week and had to call in on teams and teach like they did in lockdown, which is much harder work than teaching in school. Especially given the last week often has sessions where you’re giving out work and books and sorting displays etc…as I wasn’t able to do that last year at the end of the year I had to go in extra during the holidays to sort it, which no staff member wants if they can avoid it. Also, not to mention, most teachers like to actually say goodbye to their classes in person - my colleague was gutted she couldn’t say goodbye to the y6s who she’d taught the year before.

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RecallRecall · 18/07/2021 22:30

No, it’s not a big staff meet up. There’s only a few that meet outside of work and they aren’t the ones isolating.

It’s a rural school so staff come in from lots of different areas. Its got to be external contacts otherwise the school would close bubbles surely?

They are working from home but none have classes to teach as they are being covered. It’s all the paperwork and planning for next year being done.

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RecallRecall · 18/07/2021 22:41

modgepodge

That was my first thought. Do SLT check? I totally understand about remote learning. I was doing that and live teaching throughout. Classes are being covered by supply.

Interestingly there is myself and two others who have the have the leavers and none of us have been pinged.
It’s not a massive secondary where you never see the children again. We see ours everyday from the day they join to the day they leave!

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WombatStewForTea · 19/07/2021 11:05

@RecallRecall Are you a teacher there OP? From your initial post I thought you were just a nosey parent

Youdiditanyway · 19/07/2021 11:07

May be that they came into contact with someone outside of work so have to isolate. DD’s teacher was off last week for this reason.

JoyOrbison · 19/07/2021 11:12

Ask school rather than group chats.

ViewFromTheTowers · 19/07/2021 11:32

Ds2 is self isolating from a case last week. All cases are confirmed by Public Health England according to the communication we have from school so I am assuming a PCR. Ds was told not to leave for school as the child had had a positive LFT and we would know within 48 hours if there was a positive PCR and then Ds would have to stay home, which happened.

The children were doing 2 LFTs a week on set days for each year group. Sometimes with schools it is admin staff/office/SLT which then means some teachers have to isolate.

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