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School NOT going back after Easter

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Saladfingers95 · 02/04/2020 12:16

The headteacher has just phoned me to say my children's school will definitely not be back until after Easter. It will be after May half term at the earliest. I'm in the North East. Has anyone else been told the same?

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MarshaBradyo · 02/04/2020 13:12

However I reckon It’ll be news to us all when government say go back, none know really.

Eeyoresstickhouse · 02/04/2020 13:17

In HE we have plan A) go back in september and then our plan B) go back in January.

I don't teach but work in the extra curricular side and been told to make plans but nothing that can't be moved till after January.

willowpatterns · 02/04/2020 13:18

I'd be staggered if any of them say they are opening after Easter.

MarshaBradyo · 02/04/2020 13:18

Don’t they have to wait for the government to give the go ahead?

Perihelion · 02/04/2020 13:21

Scottish schools break up for summer at the end of June, so there's no danger we're going back this school year.
And starting the new school year mid August is starting to look a wee bit unlikely. Maybe after the October holiday?

AmICrazyorWhat2 · 02/04/2020 13:21

Our schools here in the US are officially closed until April 27th but I'm fully expecting it to extend to the end of the school year.

The year ends in mid-June anyway (a complete nightmare, IMO!) so there'll be no point re-opening at all if they don't go back on April 27th.

cornishdreams1 · 02/04/2020 13:23

We have been advised by email that the plan is to return after the May half term. We found out this week too. I felt it could have been earlier, mid May but no, early June is what we have been told (south west)

middleager · 02/04/2020 13:24

I'm surprised anybody thinks children willbe back this academic year, let alone after Easter!

cushioncovers · 02/04/2020 13:25

Tbh I don't expect kids to go back until September

ilovecakeandwine · 02/04/2020 13:26

I'm sorry @DrMadelineMaxwell what am I looking at ?

middleager · 02/04/2020 13:26

Nobody knows how this will play out, including teachers.
We can all do our own critical thinking without being told by others.

cornishdreams1 · 02/04/2020 13:28

It seems there is going to be lots of disappointed teachers when we are all back in early summer Grin

cushioncovers · 02/04/2020 13:28

Those of you who think that schools won't go back until September, do you think then that everything will be in lockdown til then? Because they can hardly open workplaces and keep schools closed - how will parents manage?

^^ apart from China I'm guessing we won't know as no other country has come through this yet.

kilisibird · 02/04/2020 13:30

We have been advised by email that the plan is to return after the May half term. We found out this week too. I felt it could have been earlier, mid May but no, early June is what we have been told (south west)

Whoever instructed the email doesn't know that though. Nobody does. It's all just made up.

pfrench · 02/04/2020 13:30

There has been no guidance on this from anywhere 'official'. That's your head teacher making a choice. If you are a small school, and children definitely have access to devices, or you are able to deliver work to their homes, then this might be an easier decision to make than for a larger school.

No one has mentioned May half term to me at all. There were rumours on the day we closed, that it would be late June - ie, 12 weeks, but that was just a rumour with no official line either.

There are much bigger decisions that need to be made by the DfE here - there are going to be loads of children grieving or suffering trauma responses, we don't need to be hurrying them back to academic study in my opinion.

I'd like my class back - we did the build up to this together, I want to do the aftermath too. I know the children, I want to have them until at least October half term, ideally xmas.

stressbucket1 · 02/04/2020 13:31

Are shops and businesses going to stay closed for that long too? At the moment non essential shops are closed and more people are working from home so can manage childcare.
Surely as people have to get back to work the schools will open? Or more people might have to take up the key worker school places.

Appuskidu · 02/04/2020 13:33

Those saying we’ll be back in September don’t know when we’ll be back, the person repeatedly shouting that the head of their private school is ahead of the game and they’re going back in 7 weeks doesn’t know. Boris Johnson doesn’t know.

We will all have to wait and see!

pfrench · 02/04/2020 13:33

It seems there is going to be lots of disappointed teachers when we are all back in early summer

I'm fed up of this response/opinion already. A tiny, tiny (I don't know any) minority of teachers are enjoying this right now, most just want to be back in the classroom. We're being asked to do something unprecedented, and still getting hassle for it from parents. We can do no right, ever it seems. Even in a crisis situation where we've had appalling guidance from central government and had to make most decisions ourselves based on knowing our community.

TheEmojiFormerlyKnownAsPrince · 02/04/2020 13:36

They can only go back when social distancing has been stopped.

TurquoiseDress · 02/04/2020 13:36

We are resigned that the schools will not go back till September, it will be mid-June 3 months on from lockdown, and it would be very optimistic to think they will be back by then

DrMadelineMaxwell · 02/04/2020 13:37

@ilovecakeandwine it's a screenshot of the email to schools by the welsh minister of education that confirms not going back after Easter. That's all. No further info yet.

woodlands01 · 02/04/2020 13:38

pfrench I'd love to have my classes back. So fed up of communicating through emails/messages and chasing them for work. I promise never to call my classes stroppy again, even Y10

ilovecakeandwine · 02/04/2020 13:39

I see ok , I couldn't see a date .
Yes well I was told that last week just going up too Easter after that then they will know how long this lockdown is going on .

CoffeeCoffeeTea · 02/04/2020 13:39

Given the A-levels and GCSEs have all been cancelled , I’d assume schools will not reopen until September. Universities are doing exams remotely and most have told students they will not be back before September

BasinHaircut · 02/04/2020 13:39

@pfrench my DS’s teacher was in tears on the last day. She feels like she is somehow failing the kids by not being able to finish this year’s curriculum. I imagine only shitty teachers who don’t give a shite are enjoying this.

Sliver lining is that the school are planning on giving each class the same teacher next year to hopefully make ‘catching up’ easier as they will know the class. Our school have been light touch with what they have sent home and god bless them for it. Teachers don’t need the pressure and neither do the parents.