List of primary school closure areas

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I can’t believe the schools down here (Portsmouth) are staying open 🤦🏼‍♀️

How can Lewisham and Greenwich not be on that list???

Sun is saying it’s at least until 18 Jan but likely to be longer.

Not sure where their info is from:
www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/13604134/covid-schools-final-decision-kids-mutant-delayed/

Till 18th, but under review.

Will be reviewed every 2 weeks apparently.

What about boarding schools when you have children and staff coming from around country especially London?

I wonder what the reasoning is behind opening schools in one or two of the Essex Districts but closing all the surrounding ones. Surely that's a total headache for the county council. (I'm in Essex which is why I'm focused on there).

Sun also says nurseries and early years will remain open nationwide.

Thank you so much! Does anyone know if this effects nurseries as They don't seem to have mentioned nurseries?

Some very odd decisions - Lambeth and Wandsworth right next to each other but only one on the list.

What about boarding schools when you have children and staff coming from around country especially London?

Probably not enough of us to bother mentioning. I'm in a boarding school. Even our day children come from a 30 mile radius. Some of which is in the school closure area and some isn't. Going to get very complicated.

I'm hoping we can just open (except to Year 7 and 8) as normal based on where the school itself is. I think it has to be that way around, otherwise children who live in areas where schools are open but go to schools where they are shut would be entitled to attend.

What about when the rest of the country is that high?

afaik, The decisions depend not just on cases/100k but also #hospitalised, and whether elderly people are heavily counted among cases.

I dunno everywhere in country, but we are Tier 4 and ~190/100k cases. We hit Tier4 partly because this is the oldest (median human age) local authority in UK so we are high risk if things take off. We are nowhere near 800/100k and although local hospitals are busy they aren't in high peril (yet). If 800/100k is the simple threshold being used, then well done to decision-makers for using a consistent threshold.

@Stylinson - 'cos Gav would be too embarrassed about threatening them with legal action for closing 2 weeks ago?

Richmond is 641 per 100k, lots of boroughs higher than that not on list (e.g. Kingston) doesn’t make much sense.

Wonder what will happen if pupils in a schools shut area go to a school in an area where they are open?!?

Not Greenwich (or Lewisham)? Yet in the neighbouring boroughs. Strange.

Saw it's local authorities.

@OrangeGinLemonFanta In my street of 9 houses (in Essex), it means that the children of two families will attend school and the children of another two will not!

We’re on the list but are under 500 cases per 100k.
But Greenwich isn’t on the list? And neither is Harrow?
Both are higher than us I thought.
Says nurseries attached to schools will use their discretion- our is small and I don’t think could run online and the nursery at the same time.

According to BBC data Richmond is 550/100k and yet we’re on the list. It must be growth rate as well or age of people testing positive.

Coronavirus: Latest figures for London www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-54324244

So disingenuous to say a small number of areas. This is a huge number of pupils affected.

@mummy203 boarding schools are mentioned in the guidance linked to further upthread

We are sutton/Epsom and EWell border. 2 Primaries schools in an L shape at the end of our road - one is open (the one DS goes to) the other isnt which is odd. Half of the open one live in the area which is shut!

DD High School is Sutton so will have 1 home for awhile.

@Stylinson probably because Danny Thorpe had the balls to shut them down before Christmas, and is being punished for not waiting for the DofE to protect our kids and teachers and their families.

The Tories are petty that way... and before anyone starts, there could be no other explanation, given our local hospital was running out of oxygen days ago

@OrangeGinLemonFanta

I wonder what the reasoning is behind opening schools in one or two of the Essex Districts but closing all the surrounding ones. Surely that's a total headache for the county council. (I'm in Essex which is why I'm focused on there).

Sounds a real headache for parents too. My sister went to another school to me, and my brother to a third- (no real reason, just one of us got into a grammar school and the other two were a bit thick and the schools were same distance from home so mum let us choose!). Imaging that some people will be in that situation and having to travel between tiers etc.