Primary dc ARE currently allowed to be in bubbles of 15

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It’s all over the news now, all other primaries in my area are doing it, my local primary is not a rickety old building with narrow corridors and one toilet.
However there’s no room for year 6 as classrooms are full of bubbles of 8 reception and year 1s. I keep hearing on the news about current bubbles of 15 in schools and worrying our school are going to decide they can have 15 if bubbles are increased to 30 in September

Schools should therefore work through the hierarchy of controls to reduce the risk of transmission

The hierarchy of controls includes social distancing in at least some parts of the documents as far as I can remember.

Having 15 people together inside is a risk. Being 2m apart reduces that risk.

The number of outbreaks in schools has increased since schools opened to more pupils. Given the wide interpretation of the guidelines, it’d be interesting to see if there are certain arrangements that are more common in schools with outbreaks.

Our Y6 kids are mixing outside school in groups of 6 with no social distancing.

It’s a completely fruitless exercise to assume they haven’t seen other kids, and to not check which children they’ve already seen

Of course it is ridiculous. We have bubbles of 8-15 depending on the size of the room, we follow all the guidance, distancing where possible, cleaning down surfaces, no sharing of equipment, cleaning toilets after every bubble has used them, staggered lunch and play.Teachers and TAs stay in their own bubble all day and don't mix with any other staff, they cover breaks and lunchtimes between them so no other staff infect the bubble. We have a 19 page risk assessment that incorporates all of the 43 different government guidance notes and the local authority ones too, we follow it to the letter because , if there is an outbreak in school, the local authority will inspect all the procedures we have to ensure that the risk assessment is adhered to. It is nerve-wracking and staff are on edge throughout the day.
And then the children come in and tell us about sleepovers with their friends, barbecues for the street, family trips to London to see the sights.
Pointless and ridiculous.

And then the children come in and tell us about sleepovers with their friends, barbecues for the street, family trips to London to see the sights. Pointless and ridiculous.

And it’ll be schools that get the blame when the whole bubble has to self isolate for 14 days and they have no childcare. Especially when it keeps happening and patents are wondering how they are supposed to keep working.

But that’s stupid people breaking rules. Kids shouldn’t be in each other’s houses.

However they are allowed to mix in groups of six. And they don’t keep their distance, and no parent is going to be able to enforce that unless they follow them round like a dick.

So the schools are in a very hard position, abd the government havent thought this through at all, their guidance is shambolic.