Did anyone else see the really positive news about primary schools reopening on BBC this morning? at 9am

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They were asking advice from a lovely primary school teacher in Denmark on how the'd approached it. She was so positive and encouraging it gave me hope for our dc for the first time in ages. Worth a watch if you can.

Thy may use secondary school rooms given only year 10’back

Near me most schools only go to ur 10 and yr 12 go to separate college we so that could work

Schools go to year 11 I mean

Maybe they could open some of the schools they shut in recent years, for more space.

Jesus F Christ. Seriously? Just think about that for a minute. Then consider why that might not work. Not to mention that I don't know of a single closed school Quite the opposite. We don't have enough of them

I’ve worked in a portacabin for the last 9 months and it’s not that bad. It has air con and heating!

(Just trying to be light hearted...)

You will get told your days and that is that.
I can hear the school phone ringing off the hook already.

++ buys shares in Portacabin ++

++ buys even more shares in resignationletters 'R' us ++

Ok so no portacabins. Why seize one idea and go on and on about how it couldn’t possibly work. Do you do that in work meetings? Or do people act like adults and throw out lots of ideas (some not feasible) until they get a solution?

Jesus F Christ. Seriously?

I think they were being sarcastic...

Delatron
I have to say it’s more ‘pea brained’ to stick your head in the sand about something that will happen whether you like it or not. To not take any learnings from other countries because we couldn’t possibly do anything they do over here. Such narrow mindedness.

The point is that it could work over here.

Any narrow mindedness is allowing those in charge to go ahead and put more people at risk.

I think that if the government and population want schools and teachers to have a can do attitude then they need to pay for the necessary safety modifications like extra sinks, social distancing markings and extra furniture so kids can social distance at lunch, extra textbooks so kids go from sharing to learning in, handgels, loo rolls...
School budgets are tight enough without having to double the cleaning expenses etc

Maybe they could open some of the schools they shut in recent years, for more space.

What, you mean the ones they've demolished and built 3 and 4 bedroom family homes in place of, for families to move into with children needing school places?

Yes, that really is a positive and encouraging model to follow. So - half the year groups in school (presumably for the foreseeable future? No mention of the rest also starting within a time period of, oh, let’s say, 2-3 weeks?).

Enough rooms and staff for groups small enough to at least attempt a bit of social distancing (about 6-8 children per group to give a similar amount of distancing space in many English classrooms).

Lots of shiny new sinks and ample supplies of soap and cleaning materials. Huge amounts of outdoor space. All children aged 6 and above. No mention of setting additional home learning for children not in school. And all planned by the government working in conjunction with the schools, and implemented when the national new cases rate falls below 100 per day.

So lovely to know that’s what we’re expecting for English schools as well. I honestly cannot imagine what all these lazy feckless teachers are complaining about.

I would have liked to have seen pics of a socially distanced playtime? Are kids doing solo activities like skipping? Are they banned from team ball games and playing Tag?

The responsibility for making schools safe is being shifted to headteachers/trusts.
Who's going to get the blame if someone contracts cv and dies? It's not being negative to want it done right AND worry about the impact on teaching and learning.

I think my stance on this is that - if we want to have the same capacity to teach kids as Denmark are doing right now then we need to be more like Denmark. is it not somewhere where taxation is high, there’s a ‘big state’, strong social democratic history etc?

Their capacity to pull off this schoooing/ general Covid response hasn’t just come out of nowhere, I’m imagining there’s a lot of factors, some of which might not seem immediately obvious.

Sorry OP I think your thread got derailed. But well done for trying.

The schools will be going back in June and I applaud the OP and others on here for trying to discuss how that might look and ideas to make it work. Love the social bubble idea and I don’t think extra sinks would be too hard.

Nice to see some positivity for a change.

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I think what the government want to happen is for teachers to once again put their hands in their pockets and pay for it themselves, Whilst the government pats themselves on the back to say how well its all gone.

I would have liked to have seen pics of a socially distanced playtime? Are kids doing solo activities like skipping? Are they banned from team ball games and playing Tag?

I’ve walked past our school a few times at break times over the past few weeks and all the key workers children are playing as normal, certainly no social distancing going on at the moment. Are the government expecting that to change when more children go back?

Or do people act like adults and throw out lots of ideas (some not feasible) until they get a solution?

Well, this week alone we've had hand-washing in buckets, tents on the field, compost loos and now portacabins. Still no sensible "solutions."
And no one has yet come up with the answer as to WHO is going to staff these thousands of extra spaces.

I think the government expect separate playtimes for all the bubbles. In one canton of Switzerland, children are in groups of 6 for playtime and must not mix.

The advice from the UK gov is very new and their relationship with the education sector is fraught.
School attendance will initially be at parent discretion.
Headteachers have to be given the same autonomy if everyone, Gov included, can work together to ensure a smooth, safe return to normality.

The schools will be going back in June

Hmm, let's wait and see, shall we, what that looks like.

Angelina I meant actual classes I really know! I'm SEN so not school-based so don't know many whole classes. But yes, I'm sure there are more!

Sara That was my attempt at being positive! Hence my sarcastic comment about money from the government that will never happen

I’m happy for my year 2/3 to go in part time if that’s what it takes.

I thought it was great and told my head to watch it if they got the chance.