Teachers: What is your school doing?

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The DfE have said DO NOT CLOSE YOUR SCHOOL. Ofqual have said KEEP PREPARING FOR EXAMS AS NORMAL

My school seem to have taken this as an instruction to just keep on trucking. They might have put some posters up in the toilets about handwashing tbf.

Other schools, from what I can tell on here, are gearing up to teach lessons remotely, cancelling trips, stopping assemblies, wiping door handles with disinfectant, making kids wash their hands before lunch.

I can’t see much chat about it on edutwitter, even after the Times article suggesting that A-levels might be postponed and GCSEs put back to September.

Secondary - nothing has been done at our place, and it’s not been mentioned.

I'm a primary school cleaner. I've been using medical sanitizer on the tables, handles and keyboards everyday.
Making sure all soap dispensers are full in toilets and classrooms and spraying flushes with sanitizer.

Secondary here.

Just posters up about hand washing etc. Nothing else. I would quite like to be told that they are at least coming up with a plan and will be telling us what it is soon. But nope. Nothing.

What happens if my DC school is closed but we’re still open? Do I get paid leave to look after them? What do we do about work for the students? What if a student or their family has it? At what point will we close?

Bloody frustrating

Shocked at some of these. At our school children are being sent to wash hands each time they sneeze!

We've all been given a box of tissues for our classrooms.

I have been given a poster about binning tissues etc and there is soap in toilets and hand sanitizer as you get to the front of the lunch queue.

I used a tissue and some anti bac to clean a penis off a desk this week (it’s really good for it). I guess given that these are now sold out everywhere I should just leave the penises be!

Hand sanitiser in the lunch queue sounds like a good idea, secondary kids rush to get to the queue, no way will they be stopping to wash their hands.

Sounds like primary are much hotter on handwashing than secondary.

training in the software to teach our lessons remotely

What exactly does this mean? Like live streaming the lesson and kids all logged in and interacting?

I’m envisaging uploading a few worksheets to our online homework platform and maybe setting some mymaths/mathswatch.

Nothing at all at my school apart from reminders to wash hands. Kids were panicking when it first started in China and wearing face masks around school (which we banned). Now they're back to being more concerned about perfecting their ticktock dances. I imagine we'll just put as much as possible up on Showmyhomework if the worst happens.

shuuush wish you worked in my school!

I think my school must use the same agency as piggy, cleaning has definitely deteriorated in recent years. I figured it was a budget cuts thing.

We are hand washing en masse:

On arrival
Before playtime
Before lunchtime
Before leaving

Children and families have been advised to wash hands before leaving for school and on returning home. We are emphasising hand washing technique and reminding children to wash hands after going to the toilet.

Our school is very clean anyway. There are plenty of hand washing supplies which no one uses . We will follow DFE advice but if we do close I don't think there will be any real effort to ensure education is not disrupted, everyone, including the head, quite fancies the break.

Not a secondary school then??

I clean in a school and like to think I'm as thorough as possible in the time available. Desks etc are cleaned daily obviously. Handles sanitised twice daily, once by the caretaker and then by us last thing. Soap dispensers have been kept filled.
The teachers have been given sanitiser spray and cloths to keep in their classrooms for laptops etc.
Classrooms that are kept tidy are so much easier to clean thoroughly as we aren't having to move things to one side etc.

I'm shocked at the post upthread saying that classrooms are only cleaned every other day. That's terrible, the desks must be filthy!

I am guessing your average primary school is far cleaner than a secondary school, going by this thread!

Secondary. Business as usual.

Secondary, we've put soap dispensers in the toilets (none before due to vandalism).

The boys tell me their hot taps don't work and the girls tell me their handryer is broken and paper towel aren't restocked enough.

I have sinks and hand wash in my classroom but only cold water (science lab). I'm encouraging them to use it anyway.

The school is filthy, my floor gets swept (badly, and never behind my desk), but not mopped. Tables are wiped but not bench sides or sinks. Our cleaners seem to try to save bin bags by picking rubbish out of the bin instead - with their bare hands (I keep telling mine that it's dangerous in a lab anyway but she doesn't listen). They also leave manky pens they finds on the floor in my desk.

I'm now outed to anyone I work with waves

Church school primary in a leafy village here - our school is minging! A change in agency, trouble maintaining staff and them not being given enough hours for the size of the school means that surfaces don't get wiped daily - not even the kid's desks. I usually object to picking up the slack with that, but might cave to wiping the tables down myself under the circumstances.

We run out of soap and paper towels regularly. And floors are mopped sporadically.

But it's ok - there's one bottle of hand sanitiser at reception and classrooms were issued with boxes of tissues so we'll all be ok!

We didn't even get the tissues madeline!

I don't think you are outed frlr : it sounds like most schools!

Minus the desk wiping : we don't get our desks cleaned.

Handwashing when they come in, after break and after lunch. Each class has been allocated a classroom with sinks to go and wash hands.
Into my own classroom I brought in my own antibacterial spray and I've cleaned desks, light switches, plugs and sockets, door handles, sewing machines, sinks fridges, freezers & washing machine and dryer everytime I'm in. (I teach food tech and textiles so they're only in my classroom one day a week) I've been using disposable paper towels for this.
I have posters up about washing hands anyway!
We have two school trips planned....so far they're going ahead

I think my desks get cleaned once a week 😳 Genuinely think there's not enough time for the cleaner to do it. Doubt door handles are ever cleaned.

I got a poster about hand washing and some sanitizer (but alcohol free so I gather it's not good enough??). We finally have soap in our toilets. Really hope the pupils do too!

I work for the council but visit different primary schools. Nothing has been mentioned to me at any of the schools I visit about handwashing or staying away or what to do if they close. I haven't seen any posters up about it, nor have any odd the staff mentioned it in my hearing.

Business as usual!

OMG the glue sticks. And I lend out pencils and calculators.

Tbh I don’t think we can dettol the classrooms free of coronavirus because even if you did, there’d just be another set of grimy kids waiting outside the door to bring it in.

I don’t think my desks have been cleaned this year.