Schools not going back until September?

[Mummypig2020]

Do you think this is true?

How will it happen with children moving up/starting school etc?

[pfrench]

Nobody knows. Schools might be preparing for opening, but we also prepared for closing for a month before it was announced. We watched the same press conference about school closure as everyone else, no official early warnings.

Schools were given no central government support to arrange closure, first info from them direct to schools about it, arrived Sunday night after we closed. Some local authorities were more helpful than others. Everything that was organised, was organised by the schools themselves until 2 weeks in to lock down. Even now the DfE is still messing up free school meal vouchers.

If schools are prepping for return, then that's the reason. We'll get the same warning as everyone else, and we'll have to organise distancing or whatever, ourselves. No reason to think that any prep is about a specific date, or being done with prior knowledge.

There is no way to do primary school with social distancing without it not really being normal school. If it was normal, then that would be the end of any lock down options, and would probably cause a second peak - not because children get it or pass it, but because of how community works around a school. I've seen Holland saying no issues with schools, and Germany saying schools were a hub of the virus. So who knows.

My advice would be to expect September, be happily surprised by a summer term date. All teachers want to go back to school in a safe way. What we're being asked to do right now is awful and extremely stressful.

[RigaBalsam]

I hope it is September I want more study into this.

An urgent alert issued to doctors has raised concerns that a serious coronavirus-related syndrome may be emerging in children in the UK.

The alert states that in the past three weeks there has been a rise in children being admitted to hospital with a syndrome that has the characteristics of serious Covid-19, according to the Health Service Journal. Children have so far been deemed to be at low risk of serious ill health from the virus.
The alert states:

“[In the] last three weeks, there has been an apparent rise in the number of children of all ages presenting with a multi-system inflammatory state requiring intensive care across London and also in other regions of the UK.

“There is a growing concern that a [Covid-19] related inflammatory syndrome is emerging in children in the UK, or that there may be another, as yet unidentified, infectious pathogen associated with these cases.”
There is little information about how widespread the condition is but the number of children affected is likely to be small, the HSJ reports. Some of the children have tested positive for Covid-19, and some appear to have previously had the virus, it adds.

The alert, first issued to GPs in north London, also describes the cases as showing features of toxic shock syndrome and Kawasaki disease, which causes blood vessels to become inflamed. It advised doctors to “refer children presenting with these symptoms as a matter of urgency”.

The Paediatric Intensive Care Society issued a separate “urgent alert” on Sunday evening.

[tinytemper66]

Welsh Govt has just announced we are not openening schools to all pupils on June 1st.

[Ricekrispie22]

“ Schools in Wales will not reopen on 1 June, regardless of decisions in England, the Welsh government announced this afternoon.

Kirtsy Williams, the Welsh education minister, said that “the situation in Wales will not change” on 1 June, in a statement designed to curtail speculation ahead of Boris Johnson’s speech on Sunday on when schools in England will be ending their lockdown.”

[tinytemper66]

Spelling error...opening!

[Mightymurphy]

There has been no formal announcement made in a Scotland. I wish people would stop saying it has been confirmed. It’s not. NS has not said schools are closed until August. She said they may stay closed.