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Pupils may be sent to different schools?

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User24689 · 12/05/2020 16:37

Anyone have a link to this specific guidance? I can't find any mention of it in the government document or the guidance sent out by our school.

The Sun are reporting that in order to maintain 15 pupils in a class some pupils may be redistributed to a different school. Is this just guess work and a sensationalist headline? Really irritating if so, people frothing about it all over my Facebook atm.

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KuckFnows · 12/05/2020 16:41

No link so far..... just usual media scaremongering it appears at present.

I repeat AT PRESENT. It may change.

Layladylay234 · 12/05/2020 16:42

It mentions it in the Dept of Education document that went out last night. Check their website.

BernardsarenotalwaysSaints · 12/05/2020 16:42

This is the full guidance, I can't remember seeing anything about different settings but I was reading it at 11 last night.

DominaShantotto · 12/05/2020 16:46

Says it in the DFE guidance specific to schools - but it seems to basically be

  1. Split the class, keep them in the same half of the class throughout and have them in either alternate days or different classrooms or something
  2. If you get too low on staff to provide that - the kids might have to go to a different school - in our area it seems to be the infants pairing with the juniors, or schools across academy trusts - not just randomly shipping Tarquin off to Bash Street Comp
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User24689 · 12/05/2020 17:02

Thanks! I have found it. I do feel like the papers are combing through the guidance to find anything that people could possibly froth over and then making it a headline. Not that I'm surprised.

I mean I've got fellow reception mums with 4 year Olds now saying there's 'absolutely no way they are going back now' because of this. Like they are just going to bus our 4 year olds across the city without warning and we wouldn't have the option to just keep them home instead !

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nolovelost · 12/05/2020 17:41

Don't believe The Sun!

I wouldn't send my children to another school, sod that. It will be bullshit though!

happypotamus · 12/05/2020 17:50

I read that in the guidance, and didn't understand. Where are these other schools with lots of spare space and teachers that my children could be sent to if their school does not have enough space or teachers to split the class in half? Surely they don't exist?

CloudsCanLookLikeSheep · 12/05/2020 18:00

Where are these other schools with lots of spare space and teachers that my children could be sent to if their school does not have enough space or teachers to split the class in half? Surely they don't exist?

Weeelll, if the secondary schools are not going back until September....

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User24689 · 12/05/2020 18:10

@happypotamus I imagine it may be in the situation that one school can't staff all its children due to self isolation/ shielding etc? Or one school might have all of its R, Y1 and Y6 opting to come back and can't accommodate the smaller class sizes but another school only has 10% of them? I imagine these are the scenarios they were planning for but can imagine that for any school it would be an absolute last resort

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Lumene · 12/05/2020 19:54

not just randomly shipping Tarquin off to Bash Street Comp

?!???!

TheWildRumpyPumpus · 12/05/2020 20:05

I presume that if the local secondary is (mostly) empty, then they could suggest that a primary sends it’s year 5 and 6 along with teachers to use some classrooms.

TheWildRumpyPumpus · 12/05/2020 20:06

I meant its, not it’s!

Hippywannabe · 12/05/2020 22:50

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greathat · 12/05/2020 23:04

Intrigued by the idea of secondary teachers teaching reception. I find year 7s a bit needy. Wouldn't know where to start with a class of 5 year olds!

llamaviolet · 12/05/2020 23:06

What if you live in a rural area without multiple schools AND can’t drive?

Hippywannabe · 12/05/2020 23:18

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pinkrocker · 12/05/2020 23:24

Are the secondary teachers who are WFH going to stop creating, setting, arranging, marking and feeding back on the work they are doing with their own classes in order to go to look after Primary school children?
Who will be teaching & looking out for and after their classes whilst they are in another school? Will they be part time in Primary and part time in secondary?
It's a difficult situation to fathom out isn't it. I'm not stirring or goading, there's so many things to consider.

BlessYourCottonSocks · 12/05/2020 23:24

@greathat...You and me both! I don't do below Y9 because they are too much for me. I much prefer a stroppy 14-18 year old. There's no way on God's earth I'll be cheerily helping out with 15 Year 1 pupils...shudder...

I now need Gin.

Peppafrig · 12/05/2020 23:27

Our high school is four miles away I guess they would have to provide the buses.

Hippywannabe · 12/05/2020 23:34

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PickAChew · 12/05/2020 23:44

Here, for anyone who didn't find it.

Pupils may be sent to different schools?
Peppafrig · 12/05/2020 23:49

I guess they would have to take siblings into account. One parent can't be at two different schools at the same time.

Hippywannabe · 13/05/2020 00:14

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Redlocks28 · 13/05/2020 00:17

I don’t actually think the HT unions will support reopening, so this is probably all a moot point.

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