How much school have your kids missed due to COVID this term?

[Echobelly]

Either being ill, schools having to shut or isolating as a contact?

I think we've been quite lucky. Both kids missed 2 days before half term as I was waiting for a test result (negative luckily), DD (in Y8) recently had a contact and was off for a bit but luckily the contact happened just before two days of planned school closure (nothing to do with COVID) so she only missed 7 days of school.

I have friends whose kids have been in and out loads and missed more school than they've had.

DD's secondary is small and split over two sites, so it was doing OK, but things really ramped up suddenly after half term and they had to move around curriculum because of teachers being off.

DS's primary seems to have not been affected much - a few kids being off waiting for test results (all negative).

I never believed in Sept that schools would make it to half term let alone Christmas without all shutting. I have kept back some days of holiday I can carry over as I fully expect some kind of shutdown or extended holiday Jan/Feb.

DC1 - 0 days
DC2 - 2 days
DC3 - 0 days

4 days for DD8 & DD11.

15 days for DS9

DC1-4 weeks
DC2-2 weeks
DC3-1 week

We have missed no school, we have been really fortunate. Only a handful of cases at both schools, one primary one secondary. Not sure what it will be like after Christmas but I m pleased we made it through this term.

None !

None (y5 & y3)

3 weeks have been affected, one each for y2, 4 &6.
Midlands. Rates peaked in October.

None

Y10 4 weeks isolating
Y8 1 week off sick and 2 weeks isolating

None, year 9, year 10 and college.

None since they went back in September

Y1 child had a cough mid September and due to issues with test (took ages to arrive and we missed window to send it back) whole family had to isolate for 14 days.

So Y1, Y3 and preschool missed 10 days this term.

No closure of bubbles or close contact issues. Until 10.30pm tonight when school office sent a letter to whole school re: confirmed cases /more information to follow

None. We've been very lucky. There have been a few cases but in different year groups.

Dd1. Three weeks.
Dd2. Two weeks.
The school I work in has had zero cases.

DD - 1 day
DS - 2.5 weeks

9 months - she hasn’t been allowed
Back yet.

Dc - none this term
( small private school and have had 0 cases )!

None - dC in reception.

None. 3 kids at 3 schools (primary, secondary, sixth form). We’ve been incredibly lucky: I don’t expect that luck to hold after Christmas.

Actual day of teaching itself, between them 18 days

Yr 4 and yr 7, and they haven't missed any. I think there was a case in yr 1 but that was it for my youngest's school. For my eldest, there have been 3 or 4 cases, but all in upper years. Very lucky .

0
In fact They haven't been sick once Since March.... normally we are ill at least 3 times per year! Especially this time of year

None. Yr 7 and Yr 5. Cases are now rising in the area though and other secondary schools have had to close or send year bubbles home.

2 days. Both for school age child to get tested. Once because she had a slight fever and was a bit quiet (would have been kept off anyway) and once because she and DH woke up coughing... Typically had settled by school time so would have sent in without Covid... Both negative and as our test site is basically adjacent to the local lighthouse lab both back within 12 hours. My own in hospital test (temperature but very unlikely Covid as was in for appendicitis) took longer than either of our "community" tests...

None - Small school, not had a case (I know a couple of parents had covid over summer though). TBH, with all the sanitising and distancing they've not even had a cold either (although nits are somehow circulating again).

Perhaps we're just an obedient lot where we are, but we're all obeying the social distancing/mask rules at pickup/drop off, most people I talk to are generally applying the rules pretty well (occasional breaches with common sense applied) - although I'm in Ireland and we've had stricter lockdowns more often I think.

DC1, y5, 14 days
DC2, nursery, 4 days

It’s so unfair that some kids have missed so much and others none. Some kids at my nephew’s school have missed six weeks! And nothing to do with the schools, neither of their schools have had in school transmission, they have the best infection control measures we could reasonably expect.

@SkylightAndChandelier We all do that too. But if you’ve got kids in schools whose mum works on a Covid ward or whose dad is a bus driver, you’re still going to end up with infected kids in school.