Can I asks what happens at your child's school if they have a positive case?

[Rainer]

As my school as messaged to say they now have 3 cases in my child's class. Government guidance is that those in close contact should get a pcr test but we have only been told after the third case so how are people to know?

We are the third case btw and only found out by pure fluke of luck as my child is completely asymptomatic.

Had we known plans would have changed to protect vulnerable members of our family that we were due to see. It was only because we were seeing them I did a lateral flow on my primary aged child as a precaution and this group aren't told to do routine lateral flows.

I know this may well be guidance that they don't tell you but just wondered what other experience was as it seems like a bit of an oversight

I think the sensible thing to do with vulnerable family members is to do regular tests yourselves. You can’t rely on others to tell you or even to test.

Nothing. Its going round my kids preschool right now. Tin foil hat time (I'm usually normal for the record)... I think the govt wants all the littles to get it now.

I thought it was down to test and trace now to tell you if you are a close contact. Once numbers rise schools may say something

This is the government guidance I'm afraid-blame Boris. Schools no longer have the responsibility to trace contacts as it's all been passed over to the NHS system. If there is an ' 'outbreak' say 5 cases in one class the school might be told to take action to close a class. Otherwise we as staff are dealing with the reality of coming to work knowing we have had positive cases in the class, children or parents are positive but their siblings are in school etc.

Nothing, and siblings are told to come back to school as soon as they have a negative pcr even though living with someone positive

Nursery had a positive case with one staff member last week, continuing as normal on the basis there are enough staff to cover. Communication sent out to make us aware of possible contact.

I've had a message saying my child may have had a contact.

No idea which child/ year group.

That's one for the ignore pile then!

Classmates are no longer close contacts even if they were sitting next to a now positive case.

There are already a few off in ds's school year after a festival on Friday and over the weekend, I expect it will rise as the week goes on.

Thanks all. We do practice caution but others may well not. For our family we can't just carry on as normal so I was just shocked that nothing was communicated. When track and trace spoke to me they said the class would be close contacts. Ime people need it made clear what to do as there have been so many changes in guidance it's really confusing. We had to spend a fair bit of time picking apart what we can or should and shouldn't do.

We have had three positive cases in DS' nursery (two teachers and one child). They're staying open as they have enough staff to cover it but have asked that all children do LFTs (or PCRs if they have symptoms) and are only allowed back if they have negative tests. All the teachers have done PCRs and will continue to do daily LFTs.

Our school is swimming with it. Unless your child is identified as a close contacy test and protect/track and trace, you do nothing. School recommends regular lfts for all. If you are a CC, a negative PCR allows you to return to school....but some schools are taking it upon themselves to say 2 negative pcrs as it's running rampant. 2 cases in our class last week along with 4 siblings of positive children in attendance too

That child goes home to isolate.
If a very close contact - and even in infants, inc reception, that doesn't mean the whole class anymore they are advised to get a PCR, but are still free to come into school unless it's negative, inc whilst waiting for the results.

It's only after you get a certain number/percentage within a class that anything more is triggered. I'm not sure how many it is but probably a few more than 3 nowadays.

Almost all of our staff have now had covid, mostly around October last year, so we aren't seeing any adults with it at school this time round so far, and I'm not aware of any children yet.

Absolutely nothing. My teacher colleague and her husband have been quite ill with it and the children in her class (she taught them the first 3 days of term before testing positive) weren’t even told she has it. She’s off and the class is covered with anyone nearby-head/deputy/senco/TA etc.

My daughter has 8 friends who have tested positive… the school hasn’t sent out a single email! We had to do a couple of pcrs and isolate until we got the results, but only as we heard from the friends themselves. One child is apparently going back today when he is meant to be isolating for another 3 days, it’s a total shambles.

Dunno. Not bothered.

Good to know lljkk.

For very good reasons I am.

Not a lot. DS's primary school have said they will inform parents of any cases in our child's class (which is more than the guidance obliges them to do) and inform the whole school community of any outbreak ie 5+ cases in any one class (which we hit on day 6 of term). No functional contact tracing is happening as schools aren't involved any more and parents of young kids who don't know the names of half the kids in their new class yet and can't remember what they had for lunch would have no chance of identifying contacts even if T&T bothered to ask - which I guess they won't as contact isolation has been scrapped in school, so it makes no practical difference. Even siblings of sick kids have to be sent in. I had understood that an "outbreak" would mean bubble closure but apparently not, they have been instructed to limit measures to having the affected class eat lunch separately and cleaning surfaces a bit more [like that'll help]. I expect everyone to get it before Christmas. In the circumstances I hope it's sooner than later while DH (not quite CV on various count but not in the best health for catching the covid) still has maximum protection from his vaccine, as he is 2 years shy of being on the booster list so would rather DS brings it home from the school covid party this term than in Feb/March/ April.

We started back at indie secondary school on Wednesday. Kids had to go in for their second lateral flow the day before and then do one over the weekend.

There are 6 cases in DD's year (not her form), identified over the weekend. At least one of them is unwell. A further small number of close contacts have been asked to go/stay home until they have a PCR test result. I imagine that the school or parents did this amongst themselves over the weekend (school has a dedicated email to notify of +ve results).

Year group were ALL asked to start wearing face masks (school doled some out for those without) and asked to do LFT every other day. The school guessed that this sort of thing was likely to happen so arranged school buildings and timetable to allow for bubbling. The year group is being kept away from other years as much as practicable.

Parents were emailed by mid-afternoon (not sure whether that was just the year group or the entire school).

They are handling it well, probably doing more than is required by the current guidelines but I hope it helps to limit the impact on the rest of the year.

Our school sent a letter saying they won't notify of positive cases anymore . They have a lot including my kids. Some parents are still really cross about it - esp as a few had poorly kids and weren't aware there was an outbreak so hadn't been on covid alert 🙄but the school made it clear this is the guidance .

Not much unless they have more than five in a class or the local authority tells them to do something. It’s clearly expected to go right round all the primary children - they aren’t going to be vaccinated any time soon so there aren’t really any other plausible long term strategies.

My DC’s school said ‘close contacts’ will be sent home and ‘advised’ to have a PCR test so basically you could take them home for the rest of that day then send them into school the next day. The school can’t ask for test results so you could easily bullshit. It’s a pathetic meaningless rule.

Our school considers every child within the class to be a close contact.
They still use the term bubble.
If there is a positive case within the class every child is asked to do a PCR test.
They are allowed to remain in school until the results.
If negative they stay in school as normal if positive they isolate.

It is a primary school. As a result we would be notified if there was a positive case within the class.

The school shared their Covid procedures before they returned from summer break.

The whole system has changed. If someone tests positive, other members of their household do not have to isolate if they are either double-jabbed or under 18. So your child could easily be sitting next to someone whose sibling or parent has covid.

If you have someone particularly vulnerable in your household, it may be worth talking to the school about whether they can give you a heads-up if there are cases in your child's class. However in some areas I guess that might be a near-permanent state of affairs.

Well as he has it now hopefully he will have some immunity for a while now so probably no point asking them. I'm unable to do my usual role if someone in the house has covid so I need to be hot on it. As my child was due with my elderly parents for the night I'd done a lateral flow on him purely as a precaution. Once he's 90 days post this I plan to lateral flow him twice a week as per my older two.

And of course the class should be treated as close contacts all of them. They are in a room together for long periods and at primary don't socially distance and we wouldn't really want them too.

No idea and I'm not bothered. Close contacts don't have to isolate anyway. I dont mind if the children or I get it, I'm fully double vaccinated as is every one we know who is over 18, which means the chances of us getting it severely are rather low.