What percentage of your school are in?

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Ours is 40% and that's with one year group isolating. HT is asking parents to review their child's need for a place. I feel worried for the teaching staff who only have face shields. They look so vulnerable on the teams meetings and has really brought home to me how little teaching staff are valued by some. Classes are being run by a TA and the teacher is in another room doing the online lesson. School have clearly said that there is no guarantee of a teacher or a TA being in the classroom all the time and were very polite but firm in asking that children only be sent in if absolutely necessary.
Are schools' hands tied because of the government? Do the rules need to be stricter and/or clearer? What's the answer?

0% we are In Ireland and school is COMPLETELY closed

DS's school has about a quarter of pupils in. There is a waiting list as some people have been refused places. The school said they will only take as many pupils as they feel is safe.

All vulnerable children and children with 2 key worker parents have places though, so the people that have been denied are those with just one key worker parent which is fair enough.

25% average according to head's letter from yesterday.

Yes school hands are completely tied by Government, first lockdown only 30 children out of 200 were in. This time round it is 95 children out of 200 children. Parents are contacting MP's, DfE and complaining that they aren't classed key workers by the school and making schools back down and having no choice but to accept them in the school. What is worse, is that the parents complaining are working from home and still sending their children in. The numbers are increasing and schools hands are tied.

20/70 in DS year, year 6 so I think that’s about 15% according to his friends.

About 10-15%

20%

Only know about two classes and it’s 2 in each out of 30.

Around 25% I believe

Only 4/29 in DS’s secondary class. I think that’s less than the first week when parents realised that children were just sitting in a room accessing the online lessons and the school’s WiFi is terrible.

DS’s last primary teacher has 15/35 so not far off half the class.

DNs’ school are begging people to only send their children if they really need to.

About 200 in our primary, much less secondary.
I really feel for the tas and teachers having to go in.
They are tightening up and drilling down into the key worker status next week.

About 45% this time which is an absolute joke. Small village school, staff live in the village so know a lot of parents have blagged places.

New head is from out of village, and has set her own criteria.

I've got a child who qualifies as father key worker - as in he's out to work 9-5 each day, but mum is a SAHP.

In because she has trouble logging on a computer

Between 40 and 50% of children are in. All staff are in school to look after them and deliver online teaching.

I don’t know about the whole school but DS is going in 3 days a week and there are 11 out of 21 in!

40-45% Primary school

I’ve had 50% of my class in (they are all genuinely vulnerable or critical worker children). I work in Reception so social distancing is pretty impossible. We have so many children in school it is impossible to go on a rota. My work load has doubled because I now have to do a full day of teaching whilst trying to respond to and support the children at home.

Slightly over half.

The night before Boris announced he was closing schools our school sent out an email saying they would absolutely not be closing unless they were forced to. They reasoned that because it’s such a small school (

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DS's school has about a quarter of pupils in. There is a waiting list as some people have been refused places. The school said they will only take as many pupils as they feel is safe.

@Waxonwaxoff0 given the number of angsty posts you made when you thought your DS wouldn't be able to go in as you are not a key-worker, about how that was going to ruin your family, I'm surprised to see you take this attitude.

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All vulnerable children and children with 2 key worker parents have places though, so the people that have been denied are those with just one key worker parent which is fair enough.

This is the comment I was referring to.

Secondary - 2.5% - no extra conditions on top of govt ones - clearly we are an outlier.

20% at ours. Not too bad but much higher than lockdown 1 where we averaged fewer than 10 in April.

Around 20% and all are children who really do need a place (some are vulnerable and some are the children of keyworkers who can't work at home).

Around 50% which is very high.

The average over the country is 20% in primary and 4% in secondary.