Why Reception and year 1 children?

[Battysace123]

Can anyone clarify why the government decided that reception, year 1 and year 6 children should be phased back into attending schools. I can perfectly understand the reasoning behind year 6 going back but why the younger children? Reception children need very little education at this age and some don't even need to legally attend full-time, depending on birthday. Also it will be very difficult for them to do social distancing. Is there a particular reason why year 1 and reception children need to go back before the other year groups?

If a parent needs to bring a sibling with them to pick up school would have to lump it.

@IHateCoronavirus it will be interesting to see how many days this lasts...I have friends who teach abroad, started back at the school on Monday with teachers wearing PPE and strictly enforced social distancing between the children - by Thursday all those measures had been completely abandoned and the schools had admitted it was impossible with such young children.

Lazydaisy I hope so. It goes against everything I stand for treating our little ones like this. The whole reason I went into EYFS was because of the freedom to learn and teach according to the child’s developmental needs rather than the governments requirements. If I had my way they’d be playing in yr 1 too.