Is there any chance Gavin..

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Saw the viral pics of kids going back to school in Georgia and realised that it's just like English comprehensives ?

@ineedaholidaynow

And pretend coughing in each other's faces

I mentioned on the thread about masks in schools I started that I believe that should be an immediate exclusion.

But within school so kids don't do it to go home!

And for a whole week/ 5 days.

@nellodee

lljkk, I work in a school where we are moving to the children, too. But they are still having breaks. So they are still all moving out at the same time, and back in again. The only difference will be, all those children in the corridor will be in the same school year.

Is that for lunches and breaks too?

Our head told us we had to be super positive with parents. Whether we were happy or not.

@drum123

Possibly it will be like it was back in my day (many years ago!). We stayed in one classroom and the teachers came to us except for specific subjects like science, PE and art which needed specialist rooms. So okay for the younger groups, but much more problematic for those taking GCSE subjects.

Same as when I was at school. Shocking that these days parents are concerned that secondary school children can’t sit in a classroom for a few minutes unsupervised whilst waiting for the teacher.

Yes im pretty sure we were allowed in rooms but possibly not science labs.
I mean our breaks were probably in classrooms. (Formroom).

Every time I see a tweet form Trump, I have to remind myself it's not a parody account. The parody accounts are more sensible and mature...

Our experience with primary is that there was no social distancing within their bubble. Difference was that the bubble was 8 children (then 11 as they got more confident).

Problem is that from September my dc are in bubbles of 270 and 240 respectively.

All the school's I've worked in all have one-way systems in place already to help with the crowding of corridors. Tells you everything you need to know.

Can see it being just like in these pictures.

🤣 That you think I'm a parent voicing concern about kids being left unsupervised. I've been teaching secondary for 18 years which is WHY I am concerned.

Yes, decades ago we could be in classrooms in non-contact time. Trust me. With mobile phones etc this is a big issue in today's schools (and I work in a very nice one). I'd be very concerned from a safeguarding point of view. They'd be uploading all sorts of crap about their peers/teachers/themselves if given 10 mins unsupervised contact. Least if they are moving to a new room they have a purpose for those mins. Giving them work won't be enough.

If you get them to line up out of the room and wait so corridors can be policed, you then have the safe SD issues of them moving around. The guidance says the staff have to SD not the kids. Of course Gav hasn't quite thought this through.

Many of us will be watching Scotland as their children go back three weeks earlier than those in England. Also, unis are a couple of weeks ahead. Not great to be first in line.

Most unis have pushed back start dates , though, and are doing online teaching but the unis could be quite a driver socially.

Scotland has quite low infection rates compared to us...

We are having the kids move to us. It's a split site schools so it just seemed the only way. The corridors will be horrific. I suggested getting rid of bells but no one seemed to find that logical : yet it works in every school I have seen using it!!

@user1471530109 we have yet to hear how our school is managing leaving them alone in classrooms 🤪. We have to train all the non science staff the safety in labs but the kids know where the gas on/off switch is so if no one is there to supervise it could get 'interesting'. I will be moving between 6 pods each of 300 and am at least going to up my step count. But can't do many practicals as only upper years have access to the labs now (rooms have been allocated to year groups). Change over is going to be chaos and I can't work out how I get from upstairs in one building to upstairs in another while kids are also moving. Usually I burrow my way through but I'm not joining the scrum this term.
I'm now at the stage of well this is it and I'll do my best. While wearing mask and visor. And just hope I stay well 🤞

@Piggywaspushed my DDs Unis haven't pushed start dates back. Lots of blended learning going on and Notts have extended their terms this year to make sure everyone gets as much face to face as possible.

really?

Most of them have...

But, in any case, later than schools, ususally. Schools are end August in England this year (or early September). Unis are usually mid September, with some early October. DS's has pushed back freshers' start state to early October.

@user1471530109 our kids are being given booklets to complete while they are left unsupervised while teachers move.... I expect the completion rate to be low

@mumsneedwine that sounds the worst of both scenarios! It sounds like you've got kids and staff moving?
I'm science too. Surely we won't be doing any practicals for a while? I should probably seek guidance from head on this actually I'm hod

The booklets made me laugh. Are they attempting to suggest they are handed in? I know it depends on the school and the kids. But nowhere I've worked would leaving them unsupervised regularly work. Yes lower school....maybe. But our current yr10-11 would be a nightmare.

There is no comfortable way this will work. And I'm generally not a pessimistic person. Which ever way a school decides to go will be shit for all involved.

This is exactly what it's going to be like. I dont think a lot of parents on mumsnet realise this. There will be no social distancing anywhere, there just isnt enough room if you have them all in full time. On these threads you get people saying it will be fine with social distancing, hand sanitised etc. There wont be any of that. It's a catastrophe waiting to happen.

I dont think a lot of parents on mumsnet realise this. There will be no social distancing anywhere, there just isnt enough room if you have them all in full time.

Equally you also have those who know exactly what it will be like, but it's ok because kids don't spread it...