How many cases in your child’s school so far?

[Magnavixen]

Our children back have been back to school since last Thursday.

So far 3 positive cases in 3 different year groups.

They are in bubbles of approximately 180 students each.
2 of the positive cases have been in their year groups.
Only close contacts required to isolate.

I’m surprised at how quickly the cases are appearing. Is anyone else experiencing the same?

[MarshaBradyo]

Decent I use Covid messenger. It’s good, it’s just a lagged reporting of daily cases in my area.

Lots of things start due to a lack of what is needed.

[canigooutyet]

No idea how many, enough to close 3 year groups in massive secondary.

I'm not sure how it's all a secret either. School closures are all over SM and in local newspapers. Although as pp mentioned, BJ managed to hit national headlines.

[canigooutyet]

543 UK Schools hit by Coronavirus:

• 342 England
• 106 Scotland
• 64 N. Ireland
• 31 Wales
• 518 pupils infected
• 127 education staff infected
• 51 schools with multiple infections

Source: A database compiling of newspaper reports, school websites and NHS updates.

Are the figures floating around on SM.

[MarshaBradyo]

I wish there was a graph showing the trend in Scotland, broken down by sector even better

[PinkyBrain]

Four (I think(?) schools locally have had cases but none at ours thankfully. Our sports groups are in the catchment area for one of the schools and have been suspended for two weeks as a precaution.

[Truzza]

0 secondary
0 primary

Lots of colds though!

[PlateTectonics]

My DC are at two different schools (one primary and one secondary).

No cases so far at the primary.
One at the secondary, but that was back in March.

[AnneElliott]

None that I know of. 1700 pupils.

[Kaktus]

No cases. Been back for 3 weeks now. None in the other primary or the large secondary in our town yet either.
I’m sure we’ll have some soon, as people get Covid and people go to school.

[PTW1234]

1, primary has under 210 pupils.

[theluckiest]

Loads. Absolutely loads. Nearly every school in the area has had a positive case.

My own DC's school has 2 yeargroups isolating after 2 positive cases. The nearby massive secondary has quite a few cases already.

The school I work at has a lot of children off being tested but no positives yet. It's just a matter of time.

Birmingham.

We're in official 'lockdown' Tuesday but no plans whatsoever to close schools. I feel like a sitting duck.

[Frazzled2207]

None - smallish primary. None that I'm aware of very locally but at least 6 have within our (Greater mManchester) borough. As the HT told us yesterday, only a matter of time.

Our HT told us yesterday that when/if there is a case he is 'bound by' the advice given by Public Health England. I though it would be dealt with by the local council PH bods. Who can tell me what's true? If the former then hopefully advice will be consistent but possibly won't take into account the local situation .If the latter I guess it might.

[megletthesecond]

We're in north Hampshire. No cases that I know of at either secondary school.

It feels like we're on borrowed time though.

[PeaceAndHarmoneeee]

2 form entry primary- no cases

10 form entry high school (1700 kids) 2 confirmed cases (siblings in different yrs/ bubbles) so any close contacts they had have been identified and told to isolate 14 days.

[PeaceAndHarmoneeee]

@Frazzled2207 our high school have said in all the letters home about current Covid cases that they are being advised by public health England as to what they need to do.

Hope that reassures you, school has been excellent about it all so far (with PHE support).

[Frazzled2207]

@PeaceAndHarmoneeee
Yes I think thanks. All the schools I've heard about have sent whole year groups home but thinking about it those stories are probably far more likely to turn up in the media than 'close contacts' aren't they. I thought that perhaps there was a blanket 'send the whole bubble home' rule - even though the government guidance suggested otherwise - but hopefully not.

I really hope that a civil servant somewhere is keeping track of all this. So they can inform the government what % of children are not in school at any one time and how it varies according to area.

[Fallsballs]

One case (teacher) DD’s in high school, 64 cases in schools in NI.
No tests available currently so we won’t know.
Good contact with school but government useless.

[EarlGreyJenny]

We've been back a month. None in my dc's school or the school I work in and we're in the areas being named as hotspots at the moment.

[Frazzled2207]

@Decentsalnotime
@littleowl1 is not doing anything dodgy at all. She is using the government data that we all have access to, but rather than us having to go and look at it, her little invention means you get an email every day with the data for the areas you want.

[2020notfun]

Our HT's said that if there's a positive case they have to do what PHE tells them to do but will avoid wherever possible sending a whole year group bubble home.
2 different secondary schools- no cases so far. London.

[littleowl1]

Hi @Decentsalnotime - if you are uncomfortable or unsure about the data you are most welcome to check it against online sources. The data is published by the govt, every day. I do not modify it in anyway. I just present it in a way that makes it easy to read and have close to hand when you need it. That’s all.

[theluckiest]

@theluckiest

Loads. Absolutely loads. Nearly every school in the area has had a positive case.

My own DC's school has 2 yeargroups isolating after 2 positive cases. The nearby massive secondary has quite a few cases already.

The school I work at has a lot of children off being tested but no positives yet. It's just a matter of time.

Birmingham.

We're in official 'lockdown' Tuesday but no plans whatsoever to close schools. I feel like a sitting duck.

And since I posted this a few hours ago, we have a positive case confirmed.

Fuck.

[NotAKaren]

4 cases - 2 staff and 2 students

[Decentsalnotime]

“Loads” have had tests but tested negative.

So they didn’t have it!!

[Decentsalnotime]

Ah I see, waiting results