If your child has a mild like cold are we just sending them into school?

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I do not send my children into school if visibly poorly or very unwell. I wouldn't want them to spread it.

what if your dc have a slight runny nose and sniffles?

I feel like I've lost all sense of what to do since covid 😅

it is ds, 11, year 7. He very rarely gets ill, the last time he got ill was last December and he actually had covid!

colds can go either way for him. They will either make him feel quite rough for a week or more or literally last a day or two.

the worst part of DS having s cold is that he will always end up with annoying tickly cough right at the end that lasts week weeks!

at least he's got an extra day off before going back on tuesday!

Government advice is that unless they have a high temperature and feel too unwell, they should be in school with a cold.

Yes, sent into school if it's only mild.

I’ve been sending mines in while they got over the back to school lurgy. No fever just snotty and a bit off.

Our primary school sent a letter on illness that said to send them in if they have a cold, headache etc and they will send them home if needed.

Thanks all. I thought so! If he gets worse I'll think again. At the minute it's just sniffles but it's obviously a cold as he isn't a sniffly child usually - not like my other child who has severe allergies and is quite sniffly and coughing!

Random but I've just come across the schools illness policy. It states to stay off for 24 hours after D&V symptoms stop, but primary was 48 hours?

interesting how they have different rules!

we've not dealt with sickness bugs since before 2020 in this house!

I give them a lateral flow test and if negative I just treat it the same as I did before. If they're well enough to go in, they go in. If they're too sick then they stay off. Obviously if they test positive for covid I'd make them stay off 7 days or until they test negative.

Primary children are somewhat more lax with their hygiene than teenagers. That's probably why.

@Notanotherwindow as one of the many immunocompromised for whom Covid is still very serious, I’m very grateful you’re still testing. Thankyou.

OP colds if not Covid (or other symptoms like temperature) are fine to go into school with.

I send them in unless D&V or temperature. They’ve missed enough over the last couple of years, and I’m a firm believer that the more frequently you let children miss school, the more you’ll struggle to get them to go in.

I'd test just before he goes onto school. If you're out in next couple of days mixing closely with others, I'd do one then as well. It's the only way you can be reasonably sure.

We aim for 100% full attendance. They have to be feeling very unwell before they miss school.

I would send in. Most of us still have cupboards full of test kits, so I would do a covid test. I would only keep of for fever and d &/or v.

No chance I'd be keeping mine off for the sniffles if they were otherwise well.

Forgot to say, testing him js not ideal as he has autism and struggles massively with testing. I'd rather keep him off than test! 😩

just hoping it will be short lived and fine by Tuesday! We don't have any plans tomorrow, Monday will be in watching the queens funeral on the TV! 💗

I send them in if they are well enough to learn. I wouldn't send them in w covid, even if they weren't very ill but then if they weren't very ill I probably wouldn't test iyswim.

DS8 has a cold at the moment. He missed Tuesday as he felt sick and was struggling to breathe properly. He was sent home on Thursday and no better really on Friday. He's probably learned more in the time he's had off though rather than being at school so not overly worried.

@rizeabuv including after sick?

My child had a runny nose and I've sent her in, she's absolutely fine in herself, full of beans, no temperature or anything, no other symptoms at all. September is an absolute nightmare for bugs/colds as they're all back to school together, it happens every year around this time.

Can't remember the last time they were sick. Most kids are pretty resilient to tummy bugs by the time they get to year 7, but mild colds are very common in September when the schools re-start after the break.

Freshers flu is rampant, common, and par for the course in the first two weeks of term. No way am I keeping them off for it. Not that my eldest hasn't tried! She's fully ready to stay home "in case it's covid" I say bugger that, if for nothing else they now need to learn- after two years of hyper precautions and staying home for any sniffle just in case- that a common cold isn't an excuse to stay home. They will enter the workplace one day and we've a whole host of children that have been taught to take sick at the drop of hat , which just won't wash in the real world.

Yes otherwise they would never be in school. Obviously if it is a really bad cold I would consider keeping them at home.

Of course

Kids are snotty little buggers by nature.

I think if it's not Covid and he is feeling well enough, then send to school. I did keep DS1(14) off for two days and DS2(10) for one day (a Friday, so he had weekend too), as they were feeling very unwell. Negative Covid tests, but sore throats, coughs and headaches. DS1 in particular was fit for nothing. He is still coughing, but that will likely last a couple of weeks, so he's back at school.

Quiet weekend then in on Monday