15 out of 20 children in ds class

[eeliie]

It's a reception class. So there are just 5 children who cannot attend. Is it this bad in your child's school?

No. Around 10% in my school, about 15% in my child's school.

25% in my DD's school. Don't know about her class but there looks to be about half the class at home on the zoom lessons.

Seems to be 50/50 in my DC year. The school is beside a large hospital so I think the catchment area has a large proportion of key workers.

It’s been about 25% in my son’s school but apparently more people have requested places this week

2/15 in my sons year, with another joining for one day a week next week. There’s about 15 per day their bubble, which is years 2-6 combined, (15/60 for our school). So no, nowhere near that level.

No. DD is usually 1 of 2-6 children in the class, there are usually about 27. I think some of the parents work P/T so the children aren't in F/T at present. Other classes at the school seem similar, seems to be 25% at the most. Primary school.

Well there aren't many kids on our morning class Zoom so either the rest don't bother or they are in school.
It's really starting to wind me up tbh!

I think there are very few that can’t attend (perhaps 10) in DD’s year but there are only six in school because most are keeping their child home regardless.

Also noticed all my neighbour's kids in uniform the other day. They go to a different school but he's a landscape gardener and she's a SAHM so clearly both key workers....

I am actually considering starting some sort of petition about this.

My kids would dearly love to be in school. But we are both wfh so they can’t. However judging by the numbers and what’s happening local to me it’s a fucking joke!! So many kids in. Friends child in because she’s “lonely”. My kids are lonely too!!!

I’m so pissed about this.

Parent at home. Suck it up! Like the rest of us.

Having said that it’s 22% in the primary and it sure about the secondary.

School in slightly more deprived village 30 mins away is 50% in.

I am quite angry about it.

It's making me really angry. My ds asks every day when he can go back to school. He was refused a place as I wasn't considered a key worker. I was still expected into work and have now been furloughed.

DD year 11 (GCSE year) attended a teams class in English (average ability set) this week and she sent me a screen shot showing she was the only one in the class who had bothered attending the lesson on teams.

In lockdown 1 when the school provided no interaction over 50% of the then year 10 were behind with their schoolwork.

Its such an important year and many of them are struggling so much.

Ds class is a mixed yr1/2 and has about 7 in out of 30. Dd in reception and her class now has 9 out of 15 in.

My ds is going back on Monday as homeschooling has become untenable and his behaviour and mental health is rapidly going down hill. Dd will carry on at home. Headteacher said they had been inundated with requests since Monday afternoon. Some classes are busy some not. No live online provision at our school and lessons have been as normal in class.

I have almost half my class in. All have good reason to be there - some have keyworker parents but a lot are vulnerable in a variety of ways, and other families in the class wouldn’t necessarily be aware of that.

@eeliie I have been fuming for weeks. DD’s class, has parents that have frankly taken the piss. Dd is very upset at so many friends in class whilst she isn’t. She can’t quite get her head around the fact. Non keyworkers, DH out all day, self employed, my business disappeared last year, trying to continue studying part time though and have younger siblings. Ds only going back as he has suspected dyslexia and is way behind after last year and has had problems since which they are aware of. He is going in now as vulnerable.

I have no idea how many are in my kids classes/school, and have no idea how so many people can confidently say how many are in their schools.

@DumplingsAndStew
Really? Don’t you have zoom calls from school for children who are home educated? (It gives you an idea of how many children are out of school). Don’t parents talk in WhatsApp groups? I would have no chance NOT to know to be honest.

Zero for my dds year and many are doctors, critical workers. But they do have full day online provision.

My 9 year old daughter has just started to have a 20 minute zoom call once a week with her class so that they can say hello to each other. Her Teacher announced that they had 16 out of 30 in school, they are being taught by her every day. Whilst my daughter struggles with the tasks that have been set, without her friends, whilst I work full time from home.
My husband is a key worker so officially I could send her in, however I felt that wasn’t the right thing to do. It seems I have now put her at a huge disadvantage educationally and emotionally whilst other parents take advantage.

Very few. The school have stipulated that it must be both parents that are key workers, or if a single parent family then obvs just the one. They are keeping spaces for vulnerable children if needed.
Thankfully most parents are aware that their jobs, despite what their employers may say, are not 'essential' and they are not in fact key workers. It does seem that for most people in my area, working from home has been facilitated.

In terms of online attendance, that's been very good too and the school have stringent safeguarding policies in place to make sure that nobody slips under the radar.

No idea about the school but there is one child from the class in school and I think that is only 2 days a week

Online attendance is 100% in both primary and secondary.

[quote Peculiartimes]@DumplingsAndStew
Really? Don’t you have zoom calls from school for children who are home educated? (It gives you an idea of how many children are out of school). Don’t parents talk in WhatsApp groups? I would have no chance NOT to know to be honest.[/quote]
No, we don't have zoom calls, but even if we did, I wouldn't assume that everyone who wasn't there was at school. We also don't have WhatsApp groups of parents.

Someone upthread confidently states that 22% of pupils are in her kids' school. How on earth?

Hardly any in our year 6 class as far as I can tell. I can see possibly 2 or 3 kids in the classroom with the teacher when she is doing her live lesson, and there are at least 15 or so on the zoom. 30 in the class so I assume the others are just not attending the zoom or watching it afterwards (it's recorded). In our local infant school I drove past at play time and there seemed to be two small groups of about 6-10 children which I presume might be a year group bubble, so that many kids out of 60.