School run with a self isolator

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Sorry if this has already been asked, but I have had an email today that there has been a case of Covid in DS2’s nursery room so he has to self isolate for 2 weeks.
How do I manage the school run for Ds1? Usually ds2 comes with us, but he’s not supposed to be out the house. We drive to school but need to get him out the car, and ds1 is too young to walk into school from the car on his own.
Dh is going to be around for some of the days so I can leave him at home, but most of the time it’s going to be just me.
So what are the rules? Can I take him in the pushchair to the school or is that a no no? And if no then what the bloody hell do I do? Google hasn’t helped.

Can you ask a friend to help bring ds1 home

I think in theory DS1 would have to miss school on the days when DH isn’t at home to have DS2. Do you know someone who can walk DS1 from the car for you?

I think you would have to keep ds1 off school on the days when ds2 cannot be left at home. There is no way you should be taking ds2 in a pushchair to the school.

We had this at DS school, they have it in place that if you're in this situation a member of staff will walk the child to the car. Maybe the school could do something like this for you?

Talk to the school. They shed be able to help you make a suitable arrangement for drop off and collection.

should

I’ll speak to the school and also call out for some help from the other mums.
One did kindly retrieve ds1 today for me, but she’s not there every day.
Thank you

In this situation I’d just have to take my self isolating child, do you walk? I walk and I’d maybe ask the school if I could drop non-isolating child in after school run or something. If driving I’d ask if they could collect child from the car. Not much else can be done if you’ve nobody else able to help, it is difficult.

Thanks for the advice. I put a shout out for help on the class WhatsApp group and have had some other mums offer to take ds1 down to school/bring him to the car. So should be sorted.

I think the best and easiest thing to do is ask someone else to take your eldest, as you have done. But from a common sense, risk assessed point of view, I would have thought that the chances of a small child, who doesn't even have symptoms themselves, spreading Covid from sitting in a pushchair outside, are vanishingly small.

But people would definitely judge

I've been walking a friend's child to school this week because her youngest is isolating. Could you arrange for someone to meet at the car when you arrive to walk him in?

@Duckwit

I think the best and easiest thing to do is ask someone else to take your eldest, as you have done. But from a common sense, risk assessed point of view, I would have thought that the chances of a small child, who doesn't even have symptoms themselves, spreading Covid from sitting in a pushchair outside, are vanishingly small.

But people would definitely judge

Haha yeah. It’s so daft, because if there is a risk ds2 did have it, the rest of us are likely to as well, yet we are allowed to go to school, work etc. What difference ds2 would make in a buggy for 5 minutes in the open air is miniscule.

At our school they made arrangements for siblings of self-isolators. There were lots of people that needed to drive with the isolating child in the car and leave them to drop-off.