Is your Tier 4 school open today?

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Had a text on Friday from the head saying she is monitoring the news and will update us if anything changes. No word since then so I'm presuming school is open today. How many other Tier 4 schools are open? I'm sending DS in as I need to work outside the home but if a lockdown is announced one day at school seems a bit ridiculous.

I'm in tier 4 greater Manchester, my 3 children's nursery, infant and junior schools are open. DH is a governor at the infants and the head said short of government closing them, the only other reason to shut would be staff shortages due to either illness, self isolation, or union action. Thankfully none apply at present for our schools.

No, they emailed yesterday and are closed to all including keyworker children and vulnerable children.

Our head has been keen to keep the school open as much as possible wejammin so I'm guessing it's the same situation here.

Yea but rates are under 200 here. We've been in tier 3 (then 4) for ages. And it was 2-3 times that for most of last term.

We are up north though. Not sure much of the new variant yet.

Greater Manchester - the SN school my son goes to is shut today and they will update us on when they will open.

Even though every child that attends there has an EHCP, they usually choose to close or refuse anyone but key worker children so I don't hold out much hope.

My DC primary school is open as normal. They’ve never had a single case. I’m a secondary teacher, so it is a training day today followed by remote learning all week. Until another announcement later, I expect...

Closed here - Manchester

Yes. Our numbers are fairly low.

Yes, primary and nursery both open. Head v keen to stay open I think. They've had cases at both the nursery and the school since September and haven't closed once.

If this national lockdown does happen this is ridiculous.

Area is about 400+ cases per 100k

My DC school is open. North East cases are about 250 per 100k. Lots of schools around us are closed though.

Yes we’re open. Cases around 380 per 100k.

NE. ours is but many seem to be closed, according to Facebook.

No. 1000 per 100,000

T4 area, rate about 250/100k at the moment, today is an inset day but they've confirmed opening to pupils tomorrow. Could all change before then though.

Not all of T4 have terrible numbers though. Ours is lower than it was got much of last term and we had no cases. I realise that once the new variant really takes hold that could change quickly though.

Our T3 primary announced last night it's closed and will evaluate today

Ours has a pre-planned inset day today, but open tomorrow as normal. Tier 4. My towns cases are 166 / 100k which seems lower than many saying above.

Manchester here. DCs primary still open , we had a text confirming this yesterday. Secondary closed.

Open and rates above 500

A few schools have closed and others partially closed.

The government only listen to the concerns of London and the south. If you're up north they don't care. I imagine most northern schools are open regardless of tier or risk.

Open. Rate of nearly 800 in vicinity of school and just over 700 in our district council area.

I'm in one of the Kent districts that is still open.

No, closed to everyone today and opening (to those with 2 key worker parents or EHCP only) Tuesday. Until further notice. Manchester; Rates lower than they were most of last term but they are worried about new variant I guess.

Inset day today with a text message yesterday basically saying 'watch this space'. LA cases at 700/100,000, our village is over 1,000/100,000. Head will probably only close if her hand is forced by teachers not willing to come in, but they are mostly young and healthy so not sure how many will send the letters in.

No, closed by the government last week. Rates over 1000. DS will be going in for a KW place as both of us are teachers and needed at our own schools.

Closed today awaiting further info