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.

None and I realise I'm lucky considering they are in 3 different schools. The primary school and the college seem to be doing well with low cases but the high school on the other hand. I have no idea how dd hasnt been sent home yet when they are dropping around her like flies.

Sounds like about half of people had one round off school, a significant chunk haven't had any and a few have been really unlucky. I do wonder if there is also a different degree of 'sensitivity' to contacts between schools with some being ultra-cautious and others really only doing it if they're sure contact was close and extended.

Certainly for the kids trying to keep schools open does seem to have been the best thing - and I've found it much easier to cope with other limitations when they're at least at school. Have we paid a price in terms on infection rates? Possibly. Because the alternative is also not sustainable.

Still reckon it might be a good idea frankly to shut down for in a bit Jan or Feb to give vaccination time to make an impact by the time you're out - if you shut down through Feb, that would only be 3 weeks off school. But then I appreciate I am in a better position work/home wise to cope with that than many.

None here as well

My two have had no time off since August when the schools returned, there have been no cases in their school thus far.

4 weeks since September.

2 lots of isolation due to being exposed to several teachers with covid. Child is of course over the moon with this 😒.

None

DD(yr9) none, but some of her class have had to learn remotely because their parents were ill. All lessons were set up to enable home-learning as a couple of kids have vulnerable parents.

I think there have been 5 kids who tested positive in whole school but few, if any others, have had to isolate too. Presumably they caught it from family members who were already ill or they were already off sick for several days before they managed to get a test.

I can't imagine that Spring term will be as trouble-free.

Sounds like about half of people had one round off school

But with online learning for many. So that's continuing off-site education. I know it sounds like I'm splitting hairs, but I think tuere's an important difference.

Schools were all meant to have theit online/off-site learning plans in place by late October, and it seems that many have used those to good effect.

None. Y9 in W Mids. There were a handful of cases in Y10 but no bubbles seem to have burst.

DD's friend had to self-isolate because her mum tested positive. Talking to friends with kids in other schools that seems to be the pattern round here - kids are having to self-isolate because their parents (non-school related) test positive rather than because the kids have been exposed to the virus within the school.

None. Year 5 and Year 1.

Due to staffing issues 3 days in September. Then 4 days this week, 2 because the LA decided to close early and 2 because the headteacher had a hit of a breakdown and begged parents to remove their children if they could.

www.tes.com/news/exclusive-dfe-considering-delay-start-next-term

School return in Jan may be delayed due to Covid.

And here.

apple.news/Ah2qEaljCRcKidr9UBHL95w

None.

Reception, 6.5 days. Part of our isolation fell over October half term.

Oh and not school, but nursery, 1hr 15 minutes yesterday morning due to staff /ratio issues.

My year 12 dd has got an exam in January. She has lost her last two lessons this term with her current isolation. I will be pretty pissed off if she more disruption in January but unfortunately it seems likely.
Good kmjib she is motivated.

It’s unnecessary to shut all schools. I live in a major city where infection rates are below national average and actual death rates are declining. We’ve had NO cases in our school.

Sounds like about half of people had one round off school
Our class bubble burst twice - one positive was a staff member, one was a child who was being tested weekly - my strong suspicion remains that many of the children weren't being tested by parents at all and if there had not been the teacher and the child doing some kind of trial (whose Mum everyone unfairly but understandably wanted to throttle when bubble collapsed again) we would have had complete attendance.
Certainly, I think my family was an anomaly when it came to taking time off early in the term to test when there were fewer tests available, I was even told that many with 'Autumn coughs' weren't testing at the time.

About 2 weeks, and now the whole school is shut due to a lot of staff self isolateing (both secondary and primary ).

0 days

DDs attendance is 88%
Theres been 2 and a half weeks on rota home learning (or on DDs mind extra half term)
Then she had 2 weeks isolation after being near a teacher who tested +ve, as a precaution. She had a test though (DP has underlying health issues) which was negative 4 days in but rules state at the time she still couldn't go back.
Her report was terrible yesterday, utterly awful. Failing maths completely, everything else has dropped spectacularly.
We've had to have a very frank discussion with her that she was warned that doing no work would result in this. She was horrified though and it seems to have given her a kick up the bum. She's year 9. Apparently her mates all had appalling reports too so it's clearly affecting them educationally, not just the time off but the teachers all having to scramble to teach classes they don't usually do.
Their year group has had by far the worst time though as one thick family had a poxy party for their kid and 60 kids came. They all need fining but as usual the inept, lazy police round here couldn't be bothered and made excuses not to.
And yes, parents and pupils all livid.

My kids have had 100% attendance- it's a first for us! Ds in yr 13 has 4 kids left in his form ( normally 30) every single one of his friends has been sent home to isolate over this term at some point. He is probably the only yr 13 in his comp who hasn't been sent home!
Dd in yr 9 is again the only one of her friends not to have been sent home to isolate-yrs 10 and 11 have all been sent home and half her year group are isolating.
Dd in yr 4-no cases in her primary at all despite every other local primary having outbreaks.
We are in N London and it seems to be exploding here now in schools.

Also in N London @nancypineapple - yes, suddenly seemed to come rushing up a few weeks back.

None. Been back since the 11th August.
Finish up tomorrow lunchtime, praying nothing hits us now!