Schools reopening before May half term?

[Manchestertimes]

What's everyone's opinion on when the schools will reopen? I think they will reopen a few weeks after Easter.

I'm just amazed you guys aren't using Zoom or google classroom. My children "go" to school everyday thru these sources and youtube. They have to sign in for attendance,do their school work,watch their lessons on youtube.The only thing that has really changed besides leaving the home is lack of dress code

I also think Spetember, but I am hoping everything will be lifted so we can get the kids out in a park by July, for people without a garden me this is a difficult,

We also are being sent resources in a post bag for each school family.

Mine have to wear there school uniform for “school” when it’s web chats etc

September, at the earliest.

This is a medium to long term thing. There is little chance that anything is going to change for the next 3 months, we all wish it would but we have to be realistic. We are still in the early days of this pandemic the spread is still moving out from Wuhan and then the other major cities.

We are 3 weeks behind Italy and there is a 14 day incubation period with about 7 days to the serious part - the extremely sick then either resolve one way or the other - recover or die. There is scope for the illness to continue after this for a while.

This means we are presently seeing people who picked up the virus in mid to end of February. This is why the PEAK is estimated to be in the summer end May- June or July. That is based upon there being a reduction due to warmer temp and more light as UV light kills viruses. IT will then return after the summer likely in the winter.

We need to be realistic and make long term plans for our own sake. There will be a situation where if we don't things may get even worse. Children need exercise and daily routines, so do we, lockdowns have an effect on our social well being - as a result, the stresses will go up as well as depression. We have to adjust to a social life for a period which has been totally different to that we have had in our life before. No contact with others than our immediate household for a long time possibly a couple of months or more. This can have serious consequences on mental health for both our children and us. I already know people who are going stir crazy and those that are petrified of going out.

This is one of the reasons the govt has made provisions for exercise and we need to take advantage of it. We need to ensure our children go out but they cannot go out as they used to and meet their friends they can't play football with others down the park etc. Their best friends have become their families, this places strain on both the children in varying ways dependant on their ages and us their parents.

Plus, you think we are scared the adults, our children will also start understanding what is going on. They too will find it hard, they will need more comfort and reassurance and they don't ask for this in straightforward ways because they have never had this situation before. Stress and these situations make us snap and be distant and reach the end of our tether because fear and the unknown is taking over in our minds. Remember this as sometimes the strength you need to keep going comes from protecting your kids.

2021? 🙀😀

@mypathtriedtokillme. So some schools are using web based classrooms? We don't have uniforms here just a basic dress code which has flown out the window.

Wishful thinking, sadl

Who knows? It's possible the government may cancel the summer holiday and bring them back earlier. 2 weeks off end of august and back in Sept. But it's impossible to tell at this stage.

I would love that to happen, I have a year 6 DD who is desperate to be back in school, but I really doubt it, mid June maybe, if everyone sticks to lockdown and we are very lucky, I'm hoping at least before the end of the academic year but I know the school I work in have planned rotas until mid-august so I very much doubt we'll be back by may half term.

People are not taking it seriously, I had to go shopping earlier and there were whole families out touching things and not respecting social distancing at all, the shop staff did their best and had a word but by that point it was potentially too late. There is a play area in our courtyard (council flats) which is full of kids all day, there are people treating this like the summer holidays and they are the reason this will drag on. I hope the kids don't get it coz they are way too young to make decisions for themselves, but idiots like their parents mean we aren't going to beat this quickly.

Our school (England) says they expect to be closed until September.

@Leaannb we are still keeping school open for children of key workers here, some teachers are still in school and the guidance schools were given was pretty crap, basically we are staying open, oh no we aren't now, do what you can, at short notice. We are 3 days in to closures here and we are reconsidering approaches but none of us know what we are doing. My school are now looking at zoom and google classroom but only because the work we stuck online was not enough and we've seen its working for schools in other countries, we are yet to work out how that will work with still having to keep schools open and the number of staff who aren't working, and then needing to differentiate work.

The kids have to wear their uniforms? That's utterly ridiculous.

@Leaannb there are broadband bandwidth problems in the UK. In some places, and that includes parts of London as well as rural areas, people can't get decent reliable broadband.

@BramwellBrown please contact your council and report it so they can try and close the area off. The majority of councils have closed off playgrounds and such areas.

I am really hoping they’ll be able to get back to school for the 2 weeks in July before the summer holidays. I have a Year 6 and it would be really nice for him to be able to finish the school year rather than never going back to his primary school again. I just wish people would follow the rules! Why are gangs of teenagers still meeting up? This is never going to get better while people aren’t staying away from each other.

Wishful thinking on your part!!

Nobody really knows when they are opening back up to be honest. But like business, it needs to be as quickly as possible, but obviously safe. I guess it could be staggered across the country.

The kids have to wear uniforms? Mine haven't worn much more than pants since school closed 😂 I don't think they'll open before september. If they cancel summer holidays then won't teachers basically be taking a pay cut as some of them will have worked all the way through? Even the ones who aren't in looking after key worker dc are planning and delivering online work in a lot of areas.

If they cancel summer holidays then won't teachers basically be taking a pay cut as some of them will have worked all the way through?

They will at least have a job, unlike a lot of self employed and employed people, so this shouldn't be a factor in this really. These are strange times and anything is better than nothing.

I had no idea that some kids were still wearing their school uniform, or using zoom to continue their lessons.

My 2 have been relaxing, like it was the summer holidays, playing x box, and youngest done a bit of mymaths! School sent some stuff home, but we've done little of it so far.

Not a chance. September at the earliest.

I think we are looking at June as best case scenario

A friend in Spain has said they are being told they ill be locked down u til June at the earliest

Cancel summer hols, get them back in for July and August.

That would be unspeakably cruel, they will still need their holiday

September at the earliest.