Strategic planning to open schools safely

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No one seems to mention that this should be happening.

Government needs to get going on this.

Labour and unions should be putting the pressure on.

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Also agree about rotas, now on line teaching is mostly set up, one week online for half the schools and one week at home should be fine, also reduce the sheer volume of students on site waiting to get lateral flow test.

Thankfully, because the unions joined up and teachers and heads mostly stood together, I don't think it's going to be as easy to push them back into classes with high cases and no mitigation measures.

Good! I want my dc to have some time in school, but only in a safe way. What was happening before Christmas was appalling.

How can you have one week at home for half class one week in? What about keyworker children?
So if you already have 10 in out of class of 30 you will have 20 in every week not 15 and some have higher on like 17 etc

It’s not going to work with a rota at Primary. I have 15 keyworker children so when would the rest come in? Secondary yes I imagine it would be much easier and I know DS who is in Y11 would certainly appreciate going in.

@donewithitalltodayandxmas

How can you have one week at home for half class one week in? What about keyworker children? So if you already have 10 in out of class of 30 you will have 20 in every week not 15 and some have higher on like 17 etc

From my point of view I'm talking about rotas for secondary - so we have about 5% of our students in right now so a rota would definitely be manageable.

However, with some imagination, rotas for primary would be possible too - just some kind of alternative childcare would be required for keyworker children. With imagination (and admittedly, money) it would be possible to eg employ supply teachers to look after them at another site on their off days/weeks.

Although, I have been saying all along that different approaches are needed for secondary vs primary schools, I do think we need to find a way to provide some mitigations in primary. Because clearly some primary schools are hugely unsafe.