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Kids sent home for a few weeks

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Feellikedancingyeah · 07/09/2020 17:37

It's started already. Two yeargroups in separate secondary schools have been sent home for a few weeks. And a sixth form in another school. All 3 schools are within a mile of each other .
Our son's school is quarter of a mile away so I have a bad feeling we will be next

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Scoopstroop · 07/09/2020 21:38

Year 10 bubble at our local secondary have been sent home for 14 days.
They went back on the 1st so have had 4 full days at school.
Poor kids.

Scoopstroop · 07/09/2020 21:41

Thats 100 kids.
One positive case.
From what i read it doesn't sound like the staff are isolating. Fingers crossed they are safe and dont go on to pop other year group bubbles.
My son is in a class with siblings of some of the yr10s

snowstorm2012 · 07/09/2020 21:50

@NewYearNewTwatName

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/07/teachers-at-suffolk-school-test-positive-for-coronavirus?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

they cover all of them, as our area isn't in it. At our school year 11s all sent home today too.

Are you in south bucks by any chance?
Juanmorebeer · 07/09/2020 21:57

@nothingiswrong no schools in Leicester have all been back since Aug 24th.

I live in a completely different city to those already mentioned on this thread.

Today 6 separate schools /colleges have all sent very large bubbles home to self isolate for 14days. The largest bubble was of 300.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 07/09/2020 22:00

Been on the local news that one of the Secondary schools here have sent home Yr7- for 1 case.

Maybe it's time for secondary schools to look at reducing bubble size. Even splitting a year group in half could help in KS3. GCSE and A level years more difficult obviously.

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Feellikedancingyeah · 07/09/2020 22:09

I'm not convinced the teenagers will stay at home for 14 days !

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WhoWants2Know · 07/09/2020 22:18

This tweet is from an hour ago. That's gone up rather sharpish from the previous count.

Kids sent home for a few weeks
louise4745 · 07/09/2020 22:29

This will sound petty.

If one of my kids has to isolate and one has to go.
I don't drive. So what do I do with the other child? I know it's not just me however mine are thankfully hardly ever ill so it's only something I've had to manage 2/3 times over 6 years.

yawnsvillex · 07/09/2020 22:30

So all these kids now "home" for 14 days ..... are they going to stay home?

MJMG2015 · 07/09/2020 22:38

Surely the vast majority were infected pre starting back at school? So we aren't 'proving' anything yet are we?

I think the point that bubbles need to be as small as possible is being reinforced!

People need to understand how important SD is stil. That & Hans hygiene!!

I feel it's community spread causing this, at the moment, not schools, but schools WILL while community numbers are going up.

halcyondays · 07/09/2020 23:03

But there is no SD in schools. And in secondaries the bubbles have about 150-200 in them.

middleager · 07/09/2020 23:30

@halcyondays

But there is no SD in schools. And in secondaries the bubbles have about 150-200 in them.
NobleGiraffe says hers is 400 Shock A local college has 1,000 in the bubble!
Discobar · 07/09/2020 23:34

@Concerned7777

In hindsight schools could have opened in June and adapted the same protocols theres not much different to then than there is now, we could have ironed out all these teething problems ready for a better approach to open in September
Would you work through your annual leave out of interest?
MarshaBradyo · 07/09/2020 23:38

I’m wondering where you all are

But also this is too early to be spreading in schools. Possibly inset days

MarshaBradyo · 07/09/2020 23:39

Oh right read more you say where you are

EstellaHanclay · 07/09/2020 23:54

Slightly off subject here but isn't a few weeks the same as 14 days? Two weeks is a few weeks right?

Itsjustabitofbanter · 07/09/2020 23:58

Merseyside here. I believe there’s 2 secondary schools and 5 primary’s affected

stuckagainhelpplease · 08/09/2020 00:06

@EstellaHanclay my understanding is that the word "few" means three and the word "couple" means two. A "few" never means two.

cantkeepawayforever · 08/09/2020 00:08

@AlaskaThunderfuckHiiiiiiiii

I’m pleased to say that my kids have been back at both primary and secondary for a month now with no rise in cases, no tests needed, no burst bubbles and the teachers aren’t dropping down dead as some predicted. Hopefully it continues
This is the issue, though, isn't it?

Some schools will be open and shut like yoyos, with huge disruption.

Others will be barely touched.

Yet at the moment all will be sitting the same exams next summer...

ElizabethMainwaring · 08/09/2020 00:19

@cardibach

Fins not fobs!
Sorry, this really made me laugh! Yes. The government were definitely lying about schools during lock down. I knew of several schools in my area, both secondary and primary, closing when they were only partially open. And then the papers were complicit; lying about schools being safe; kids don't get it blah blah blah.
motherrunner · 08/09/2020 06:18

@cantkeepawayforever I made that point up thread in response to a poster who said schools should be open full time always due to the vulnerable students.

Where I live borders a deprived city. I have friends who teach in schools with Hightower numbers of vulnerable students. Their education will be disrupted. Three schools have already shut bubbles. Their was an article earlier in the week stating high levels of deprivation has seen high numbers of the virus which have never returned to pre-Covid state. These pupils will continue to be disadvantage as they will be sitting the same exams against students who are in areas of the low growth and transmission.

I hope those who are concerned for the vulnerable are lobbying their MPs so they can have laptops, their schools can provide good remote learning.

motherrunner · 08/09/2020 06:25

Aah! So many typos.

*high
*there

SansaSnark · 08/09/2020 06:41

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

Been on the local news that one of the Secondary schools here have sent home Yr7- for 1 case.

Maybe it's time for secondary schools to look at reducing bubble size. Even splitting a year group in half could help in KS3. GCSE and A level years more difficult obviously.

This is a good idea in theory and might work for lessons (although re-timetabling at this stage would be a pain if the school doesn't use this approach normally) but at the school I work, the issue would be getting everyone through the canteen at a reasonable time, having enough indoor eating space and organising the school so the parts of the year group didn't interact in corridors. I'm not saying it isn't do-able, and probably this should have been the advice to start with, but basically it wouldn't be something we could implement very easily although it would have been doable perhaps with the summer to plan!

Not a major issue but it also means stuff like sports clubs couldn't run.

I do agree a year group bubble is too large, but with teachers mixing between bubbles anyway (and we are the most likely to catch and pass it on apparently), I am not sure how much "value" bubbles have, really.

SansaSnark · 08/09/2020 06:43

And yes, the levels of disruption will be hugely different between schools, and the rules on self isolation will be worse for vulnerable students and key workers' kids.

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