Anyone else's primary age kids in big bubbles?

[Crunchymum]

Mine are both in bubbles of 120 (2 year groups per bubble but we have 2 classes in each year group!).

Whole bubble will need to self isolate if there is 1 positive case. Kids are in different bubbles. Not sure how cross bubble siblings work?

It just sounds impossible??

Our primary bubbles are classes of 30 but secondary is 200. They’ve not really said what happens if there is a positive case. Going by how strict they were with chicken pox (school secretary sending dc home despite medical professionals saying no longer infectious) I’m expecting my 3dc to spend most of the autumn term at home
We’re in a very low case area so it’s just a suck it and see situation. I don’t really understand the bubbles when siblings obviously break those anyway. My dtds are in separate classes, which is definitely best for them, but I was surprised they didn’t put them together this year.

They won't have a whole huge bubble like that off in the case of one positive person. Schools have to phone PHE (or whatever has taken over), and they get involved to advise. You'll end up with very close contacts only being off, or 'home' class.

Both schools have whole year bubbles. In primary that's 5 classes I.e. up to 150, and in secondary that's 8 classes I.e. up to 240!! Fortunately a very low case area, but still....

At my infant school we have year group bubbles of 90, in order to manage outdoor lunchtimes and playtimes. It just wasn't possible to sort without this. The children whilst indoors are in class groups of 30.

Even the full class doesn't have to isolate on the case of one positive CV result, let alone the year group.

I am not sure what my kids school is doing. They seem to have an inside class bubble and initially that was also who they played with in the playground. They appear to have recently quietly changed this because they have composite classes and some kids had hardly any of their friends to play with when they kept to those groups at all times. so now it seems to be by year group rather than class outside. I am not asking too many probing questions as this change has helped my daughter who was struggling at breaks because she was isolated from the girls she played with last year.

My kids are back at two sports clubs and attend private wraparound care that serves eight schools so🤷🏻‍♀️.

Low case area here and the upper years of primary are in year group bubbles. The new year intake are in class bubbles.

My DCs primary is bubbles of 120. There are 4 classes per year group, they will share the lunch hall and playground with their bubble, and will be working in mixed groups during the day.

I may be reading it wrong? But seems like one positive case wipes out a whole bubble??

I spoke to our headteacher yesterday, one positive case and the entire bubble plus anyone they live with has to isolate. That is the current school guidelines!

@lunar1

I spoke to our headteacher yesterday, one positive case and the entire bubble plus anyone they live with has to isolate. That is the current school guidelines!

It is insane. So that would be both my kids and my self employed (work out of the house) DP? For one case... plus my toddler in nursery.

Its going to be a long winter.

Blimey mine is in a bubble of 17 and I've been worrying because I thought that was a lot! Mind you I've nothing to benchmark against.

@Crunchymum, it's going to be interesting. My husband is a hospital consultant. He hasn't missed a day of work since the lockdown began. He is working mad hours to get through all the missed clinics. It's going to go down really well if there are multiple occasions where he has to cancel two weeks of appointments!

Family members don’t have to isolate. Just the child who’s been at school.

The school cannot insist that everyone in the household has to isolate, due to one positive case in the class. Even if it's in their risk assessment it cannot be policed, and it is outside of the government guidelines.

With any track and trace situation, which this would be similar too, it is only the individual who has had contact who has to self isolate and not the rest of their household.

Year R, 1&2,3&4,5&6 are how they've done bubbles at DDs school. The school FB page is already awash with ' so and so has a cold' since going back on Thursday... it's going to be a long, long winter

Dd has a cough and had a temp earlier this week (swab was negative but with asthma she’ll be coughing for a few more days). School starts Monday. What’s the betting I’m called by 9.30am to collect?

@m0therofdragons

Dd has a cough and had a temp earlier this week (swab was negative but with asthma she’ll be coughing for a few more days). School starts Monday. What’s the betting I’m called by 9.30am to collect?

You should pre advise school that you are aware of the cough and have done the correct measure and had dd tested.... then that will pre clear that up

Our school on one form entry so each class is its own bubble. I love my kids school because as it’s small it allows the year groups to mix and all know each other and be one big community/family... sad my little one who just joined reception doesn’t get that experience with her two big sisters in the school (obv understand why and know they’re doing the necessary just shame - Covid brings so many changes and challenges)

We worked out the evening that in our one form entry primary school we can link all the year groups up via 6 families! So much for bubbles!

My younger dc in primary are in bubbles of 25ish but my secondary aged dc are in year group bubbles which is about 180 I think.

The family don't self isolate just the year/bubble, I'm expecting it to happen at least once

@crunchymum that might be a plan for your school but in reality only people in close contact will be asked to stay at home. Likely to be the child sitting next to the infected child. The school don’t make the decision phe do.

There seems to be conflicting guidelines and recommendations here, from different schools.

Primary 60
Secondary 250