Is your school doing well with sticking to the social distancing rules?

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My children went back to school last week. We have 5 different gates into the school grounds. 2 year groups per gate, but 10 minutes between-t. Unfortunately one entrance is a small lane and parents with their children from other year groups and prams etc are still using it to cut through 🙄 there's a perfectly good street parallel to the lane that isn't small, cramped and muddy, but would take them about 20 seconds longer. So no social distancing is happening in that entrance. I've asked school to at least put up a sign. I know some will still ignore it, but it would at least lessen the flow of traffic. Other entrance is slightly better, but parents feel the need to congregate near the gates to chatter and staff aren't addressing it. First day back a little boy spotted the head teacher and ran for a hug, so she was stood carrying him chattering away. Head thermometer didn't work one day and heard them say it'll be fine, in you go. Anyone else's schools handling it better? If we don't have covid cases it'll be a bloody miracle.

That's the parents not doing the right thing though, not the school.

Oh absolutely, but school need to be on the ball and address it, not just leave them to it.

Our school aren't taking temperatures unless children appear unwell. School is on top of a hill and we are asked to go on one side up and the other down which 99% are adhering to. Every parent in 1 Gate and out of the other, but there is an hour during which children are dropped off, which eases congestion.

Lol - social distancing rules for schools could have been written by the brothers Grimm. Not even the people who wrote them believed they'd work (and if they did I'd worry about someone so gullible teaching my kids).

The schools were never going to be able to facilitate social distancing.

Hundreds of parents all arriving roughly the same time and deciding whether or not they want to follow the rules. Teachers arent bouncers, if parents choose not to follow the rules what are the teachers supposed to do. They cannot risk ruining their relationship with the child's caregivers, they need that relationship to work.

Teachers and kids in primary cannot social distance, because there isn't room in the class and because kids need physical interaction.

When my DD was crying the first couple of mornings, the right thing to do was for the teacher to give her a cuddle, reassure her and make her feel comfortable, and that's what she did.

If you want a completely safe, sanitised and distant experience the only option is home schooling, schools cannot deliver the nonsensical guidance DfE have written.

Our school have been good - sent out very clear information. Three bubbles which enter and exit by different gates, i sit in my car and the teacher sends the dc's out when she sees me. The bubbles aren't mixing.

The only less than ideal part is that school transport is mixing bubbles, but that isn't the school's decision.

Even so, the covid figures in our area are skyrocketing and I suspect we'll be next in line for a local lockdown.

No, but then I am glad of it today to be honest. My daughter had a pretty nasty head injury at playtime and had one teacher applying a compress and another holding my dad hand to distract her. There has to be comfort for the kids I think

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@Findahouse21 that sounds exactly like ours. School set on a hill and gate at top and bottom. We have an anti clockwise circuit to drop off and the reverse to pick up. Plus a rather complicated set of 'singles vs siblings' timings.

Re:OP - despite the above the usual parents are still standing about having a chat and a fag near enough to the gate to be a PITA. Not the schools fault but yes they should be addressing it. I guess it has to be reported first though. I don't think our staff can actually see the main gates from the playground where they stand to release the kids ...

Our schools (one secondary and one primary) have done brilliantly. Staggered starts/finish times, strict cleaning and handwashing and keeping bubbles isolated from each other. In secondary, the teachers move between classes and the whole school has one way systems. Parents are not allowed on either site, not even in the car parks. Primary text each parent every day to remind about social distancing, signs are huge and everywhere.

I agree with PP, its the parents that are causing the issues. At primary, parents arrive early to get parking spaces and stand about chatting across narrow pavements so everyone trying to get past has to walk in the road to maintain social distancing. We've also had parents yelling at teachers because they aren't allowed on site, parents squeezing into a tiny space at pick up because they can't be bothered to walk 10-15 feet to spread out across the playground and three adults bringing in one child as well as 'vair important- late patents ignoring clearly marked one way systems.

There is only so much schools can do.

I’m support staff and whilst school policy is good and clear I’ve found staff ignoring it. My line manager has called a meeting after school at the local pub to talk work as we ‘aren’t allowed’ to gather in school?! Am too afraid not to go.