France lockdown 2 - vers un deconfinement

[CroissantsAtDawn]

2nd thread discussing the lockdown in France and the impending deconfinement...

First thread here:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3850860-Lockdown-conditions-in-France

Despite being in a red zone, our local school is going full steam ahead for opening one maternelle class (GS) and 3 classes in the primaire. No cantine or garderie, and you have to take your child's temperature every morning and tell the school if there is any covid in the family.....

Thankfully my 2 DC are at lycee which doesn't look like opening any time soon.

Roseau we’ve been told to plan to open as usual in September.

DD3 (13) has already organised for 2 friends to come round next Monday. Not seeing friends has been absolutely the worst thing for her.

No idea when she will go back to college but this will make her happier.

Our school has told us:
Opening from May 25th
No PS or MS
GS and primaire = 2 random half days a week (I think aleatoire in the sense no you can't ask for Monday morning and Tuesday morning cos it suits you...)
No meals to be taken at school
The current school work done at home will continue- ie zoom classes and LOADS of work for my 8 year old
DC of 2 parents who cannot work from home, upon production of attestation from employers, can do the full 4 day week BUT they will be isolated in one building and can't join their usual class for the 2 half days.

So pretty useless. Some parents who were planning on sending DC back have now changed their minds and will stay in the country.

We will send ours but its a pain. Think we ll get our nounou back for "after school" although no idea what she ll do with them.

We re happy to have friends round. But I'm not sure the other parents will be. Ive already suggested we do the pyjama party (2 friends) that was planned for March next week but no answer from the parents....

I ll wait and see who is school then I ll invite those children round.

Several friends in different villages in 68 reporting that their schools will not open until September. So they are not expecting parents to go back to work until then either?

Who knows? And there is also a knock-on effect of any businesses linked to schools. Like canteens, school supplies, coaches for trips etc.

Told my manager that the DC will be back 2 half days a week and she said oh you shouldn't do it then, it's pointless "voire" dangerous to expose them and yourself.

She didn't see me crying to 20 minutes this lunchtime because of DS1's behaviour and point blank refusal to do his school work...

We've had precisely no information at all. 3 kids at same college. Mr DD won't be going back. V bright works 1 hour a day. 2 DSC both dyslexic, 50/50 guard partagé. Parents both have the fence wedged up to their eye balls. Probably maybe possibly going back so we will be put at risk either way.

We have heard back from DC's schools. DD is going back on May 18th and DS is going back to school on May 25th. Since a couple of days, our region has been 'green' but who knows where we will be in a couple of weeks after the déconfinement.

We finally heard from our (big, old building. oversubscribed, overall very good, city primary). The gist of the message was:

We cannot meet the requirements of the protocol sanitaire. We have been taking btw 8-25 children a day (children of medical and care staff) and it is incredibly difficult, even with these small numbers, to maintain the sanitary rules: coming in and out of school, in the playground, in the toilets, in the corridors: The children need to be reminded over and over again to respect the rules. To work, it depends on keeping the children apart from each other. Please keep them home unless you absolutely have to send them. We will maintain teaching at a distance, all the way to summer if necessary.

The phrase that hit home: “the school of yesterday, it won’t be the school of tomorrow.”

Feeling sad tonight, for lots of reasons.

We aren't sending DD (CM2) back next week despite both going back to work ourselves. She's really upset as most of her friends are going back full time (4 days a week, canteen but no etude). I feel horrible about it but I don't see how they can properly respect the consignes sanitaires.

One of DH's pupils had Kawasaki when he was in primary school, he spent 6 months in hospital, it's not a risk I want to take (also DD's teacher is of a certain age and I don't think it's fair to increase the risk.

17yo DS was hapily busy planning a camping weekend with his friends, he was mildly annoyed when I said the easing of the lockdown wasn't meant for that. I'm worried that loads of people are thinking along the same lines and that in 20 days we'll see the 2nd wave and go back into full lockdown.

People with younger children, do you have any distance teaching? All we get is an email to do page x from this book and page y from the other.

Bonjour tout le monde! I'm currently in England but lived in France for 15 years, and my parents and sister are still there. They're in Ile-de-France so a red zone. My sister is in terminale so is "envisagé" to return on the 18th, but her lycée haven't been very communicative.

I'm not sure why terminale are in the second group to go back, given that the bac is off and there's presumably not much learning left anyway. My sister isn't delighted at going back, while friends with kids in CE1/2 seem keen to get them back ASAP!

@WyfOfBathe my understanding is Lycées are not going back til September. Certainly the case for us.

The information we have had is Lycées not before June and probably not before September.

Dh teaches at a CMA and he is back from the 18th for some apprenticeships but not all.

Here Lycees seem to have been told that they will be going back on 25th May.

Katharina CE2 and GS children get all materials for exercises, games, art and sport via email. Art and science projects are put on monecole for all the children to see each other’s work. The CE2 gets corigees, and one half hour online session with teacher per week. They will try for a whole class online session soon (I’ll eat my foot if that works). GS got a video of the teacher reading a book which he really liked. Overall I think the teachers are trying really hard to keep things going and stay in touch.

Daily emails with worksheets here and an hour a week online with the teacher for my son in CP.

We still haven't had any official news about DD's school, one jour ouvré before they're meant to go back. Ffs! We've only heard unofficially from our friendly local ATSEM that they won't take her. I'm really pissed off at the lack of communication. Bordel de merde!

OK I will complain to our school then, if they tell us DS can't go back til September (CP). His teacher has not been in touch at all, besides sending the 'do page x' messages.

@KatarinaRosalie

My GS child has work set every day on Ecoledirecte - do maths page x, print off these worksheets and do them, learn this poem, do this colouring in... It started off at roughly 2 hours a day (4 days a week) but has dwindled to about 1 hour (cos we're not pushing him to do longer). We have to send photos of the work but the teacher isn't very interactive.

My CE2 is drowning under work. He started off at 4 hours a day, 4 days a week and is now averaging 5-6 hours work a day, 4 days per week (except we end up spreading it over the 7 days).

He has 2 x 1hr20 zoom lessons a week (half classes) + the occasional extra 45 minute session to recite poetry. He has 2 or 3 tests a week on the website Socrative. He is doing grammar, spelling, writing, numeration, calcul, comprehension, history, geography, art (we have to post the pictures on the class blog), and English. I've possibly forgotten some things...oh yes, he's meant to read and do quizzes on Golibris, and learn his catechism and do sport videos and learn some songs for the June concert...

If school doesn't provide more, I'd buy those revision books CP to CE1 that are everywhere. Or those books that accompany the school year. That way you can revise all the CP work at least.

Luxembourg.
Here it is the other way round with secondary schools returning first.
Monday 4th May the final year of secondary schools returned.
Next Monday 11th the rest of secondary schools return.

This is the recent headline about last Monday’s return.

Quote
RTL Today: Return to school: More than 96% of pupils in final year return to classes
Pupils in their final year of secondary school or vocational training returned to school on 4 May 2020.
End Quote

Luxembourg
Primary classes are due to start on Monday 25th

French niece who is 9 is back 25th May and BIL/SIL both working full-time and are sending her back.

Croissants I have plenty of books, that's not a problem. But would expect a bit more from teacher, who for the past 2 months has done nothing, not even a quick video message to say hi.

Local hospital now claiming they had cases already mid-November. www.lalsace.fr/sante/2020/05/07/l-hopital-schweitzer-de-colmar-evoque-des-cas-de-covid-des-novembre