To ask if you'd consider organising a walking bus when the schools go back

[drspouse]

I'm seriously thinking about this for DD. Her school divides into probably 30% driving, 40% walking from up the hill, 20% from down the hill (like us) and 10% bus/child walks alone.
We are very close but it gets so crowded at drop off and I can think of at least 3 families who live our side of school and who also have a Y1 child. So if I could persuade them and find one more we'd be only having to do 1 in 5 drop offs. Could I walk 5 Y1s to school though??

DS school is a small specialist school which we can walk to but it's next to an enormous school so driving into his school car park is sadly probably the best option!

I have asthma and in the week before lockdown the school drop off and pick up was the closest I got to anyone all week!

I posted this a while ago but I wonder if families who ARE considering sending their primary school children back are thinking of this?

No because social distancing is still going to apply even after schools go back

Won’t be able to apply in school so can’t see why anyone would worry about the route to school

It's a good idea to keep parent numbers at the school gates down. Am in Scotland so not an issue till August, but I've just suggested this to our primary. Loads of kids on our street and the next one walk.

It's a good idea to keep parent numbers at the school gates down.
This is my feeling.

If my DD is in a Y1 class of 15, and they are all going to be off and self-isolating should one get sick, then it's going to help at least a little bit if there are fewer parents from other classes hanging about the school gate. Like many schools, staggered drop offs only work if nobody has two children in different year groups!