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?

40%

In my DC's year it's roughly 25% but the whole school is at 40% capacity.

41InhabitantofPlagueIsland2021

So what is an “acceptable” percentage of in School attendance level?

What if some arbitrary cut off then excludes those eligible for a place?

I don't think a number can be put on what percentage is OK. But I feel very unsafe as a TA in school and feel very angry at the unnecessary children in. We have no SD or masks so any extra child not in is a help.

Around 20% are in in the high school I teach in, though more are coming next week.
I have no idea in my DS's school. We were offered a place but didn't take it.

52% school 1
School 2 was 46% got down to 40% but biggest class is my child's around 50% attendance.

About 15% from what I've heard from other parents with kids we are in Wales.

Our head is adamant that we will not go above 25%.

About 5%. The headteacher has been very strict on who gets a place.

There's around 4/16 in both my kids classes. They access the remote work in school under supervision by librarian/TA/specialist teachers.

Strongly worded letter from head last night saying please don't send in if you don't need to.

The 4 kids in have got either parents teaching at senior school (private 4-18 school) or doctor parents mostly. I don't feel they're taking the mick and I don't think their provision is any better than mine.

@Lettertoyou

50% special school. All children are entitled to go in but some parents are choosing to keep their child at home and a few are shielding.

Presumably that is only a few children though, as there are not 30 children per class in a special school, which is the problem in mainstream schools.

Am in Scotland so both parents need to be key workers. Primary has about 10% in and secondary school has about 2% in

State infant school, 3 form catchment.
40-50% each day.
We allow part time attendance so it fluctuates. Fridays are the least busy.

35% in our junior school compared to 3% in Spring lockdown

DD class has 18 out of 30 in, it is entirely a normal school day with their normal teacher, those in school won't know anything has changed with extras like instrument lessons and p.e still going ahead. Those at home have lost their education, social life and routine. My heartbreaks for them all those left behind and excluded and those with no choice to be in school who are in large class sizes as more parents have chosen to send in kids while working from home.

My siblings school has around 10-15 kids in most classes. All classes open. All staff in. TAs overseeing same work teacher is giving online. Children going off due to parents being positive but no bubbles burst yet.

Very few. Around 75 out of 800, so less than 10%. High percentage of parents at home here though (due to poverty in the London borough, not SAHM affluence).

I don't know the answer. But 75% in os madness

I agree, but the government have specifically stated in writing that schools are not to deny places to even one key worker families. We’ve had usually fairly amenable parents threatening to go to the LA when we’ve suggested that they could keep their children at home as one of them is a SAHP.

After Greenwich, you’d have to be a brave LA to go up against the DFE...

It varies from year to year. We have 23 in our bubble which has just burst but there are 9 in the year group down the corridor. It is still spreading.

Oh I agree. My criticism is with the govt not schools. It is crackers.

Over half were still attending in the first week. DD was one of 20 in her class. The head has asked for parents to only use places if they really need to but I don't know if it's made a difference. There are definitely still children there that I know have at least one parent not working- maybe they're all classed as vulnerable 🤷🏻‍♀️

My group of 5 friends who are homeschooling worked out we all could qualify under the govt guidelines in one way or another... (one keyworker even though both parents working from home. Sharing laptops. Or even just arguing they're "better in school after last time" 🙄.

About 15/750, so 2%

That's out of 7-11, not sixth form

About 15%. Private school. Home Counties. Mainly keyworker children - some vulnerable. Not near a hospital/prison etc so not a big proportion of key worker parents. The school has gone fully online. So children in school doing same lessons as those at home.

60% in our primary school, it's madness! Also hard to explain to my ks1 kids where they're at home and a lot of their class is in school. We're both working at home, one key worker - we feel it's very unfair on the school staff dealing with this everyday.

Ours is a grammar though, so many older middle class parents (not me ). I assume many have flexibility in their jobs or can work from home, devices for all the family and so on.