Maybe it would have been a good idea to give schools the heads up?

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This might sound radical but would it have been a good idea to let headteachers know before 8pm that they need to move to home learning from tomorrow rather than ask them to get started on welcoming students back today??

Some in our area are closed to all children tomorrow (well, key worker children) and are treating it as a PD day so they can allocate staff, ratios, bubbles, home learning etc

Virtually all the schools in our area were shut today preparing for tomorrow. Guess that was a waste of their time as presumably everything they planned for has to be redone.
Although I suppose it's better than having them in for one day.

Schools didn’t know anything. We were having to move online due to staffing anyway, so spent today prepping. It took me 7.30-5.30, then 7-9.30 to get home learning for the next few days planned, filmed and uploaded and Zooms set up.

I really feel for schools who will have to work through the night to set up for tomorrow, and for working parents who are bearing the brunt of this (and for working parent teachers too - not a mutually exclusive concept!).

Nearly all schools had an Inset day yesterday, and I too feel sorry for all senior staff wasting their time preparing to test children etc, to find the plans changed last night. I don't know how they keep going with all these weird last minute changes.