schools list of symptoms not to send kids in with

[jupitermars1345]

During the autumn term we was told not to send in with a continuous cough
High temperature
Loss of taste or smell or both
Stay home and test.

For the return to school this has increased to also include
Runny nose
Headache
Fatigue
Muscle or body aches
Head cold symptoms .
I think there is a couple more to but I can't remember them from memory

Aibu to worry about how much more education will be missed if we can't send with a runny nose ?

We've been asked to test for any of these symptom's to. Nightmare for working parents if your kids have allergies to

Sore throat was one to

Runny nose is the only one there you'd have an issue with surely? (Just curious!)

Yes
I don't think it's feasible to keep them off Everytime they have a runny nose
That will be a lot of lost education again ?

They're all symptoms kids get with COVID though. I'd rather they were being strict than COVID closing the school down

Fwiw this is a infant school so age 4-7 so they pass colds around easily

I've found they're nowhere near as sick as usual this year, probably due to the social distancing/hand washing etc. Plus we're headed out of cold season. Don't think it's going to be a big deal, and better safe than sorrg

Yes my 5 year old hasn't had a cold for 13 months which is crazy

That's exactly the point @jupitermars1345 - if they can pass colds around easily they can also pass Covid around easily. Symptoms of Covid in young children are generally mild and symptoms in everyone can be hugely varied (and can include runny noses and sore throats etc.). I think if someone is under the weather, whatever the symptoms, they should stay at home especially at the moment. Yes, it's a pain, but better than the alternatives...

Well my middle child has awful hay fever so that would be a nightmare. Would be happy to do lateral flow tests but could not keep my child at home during all that allergy season time!

It will be a nightmare for kids with allergies.

Absolutely agree better safe than sorry
I am 26 weeks pregnant and don't fancy covid myself but I'm worried as we have struggled with home learning a lot and just don't want her to fall behind anymore.
She isn't reading at all still

Agree with that list. Please keep any potentially contagious child away from school. Regardless of whether it’s a cold or covid. Just keep them home.

Lol. Keeping a child off with fatigue - my child would never be in, she always takes FOREVER to wake up, whinged she’s tired & sits on the sofa for ages until she suddenly springs to life! This is after a 12 hour sleep usually.. she’s 3 going on 13 with sleep! 😂

I send my nursery aged children to nursery with colds all the time. We’ve not really seen much reduction in colds this year as nurseries have never closed. We’ve had plenty! But both nurseries state colds & runny noses are fine so long as no temp or cough. If they test negative with a cough, they can go back in while still coughing!

@UhtredRagnarson - you can’t feasibly keep primary aged children off school for every cold, they’d miss weeks of education every year!

Students and staff staying home with symptoms is a the top of the hierarchy of controls for schools (above social distancing, hand washing, cleaning, bubbles...the lot!)

As mum to a DC with bad hay fever this does worry me as we approach Spring, but then around 50% of the cases we had in the secondary school where I worked in let to huge numbers having to self-isolate as parents of the kids who’d tested positive had sent them in for 1-2 days with the symptoms you’ve listed above (headache and fatigue especially among Y10-13 students, most dismissed as from just working hard!!)

[quote HolmeH]@UhtredRagnarson - you can’t feasibly keep primary aged children off school for every cold, they’d miss weeks of education every year![/quote]
Right now you can. This isn’t normal times. The risk of it being covid is too high.

Well it’s only going to be until tested surely so would only be a day or two at most.

Better to be over cautious than gave lots of classes being sent home.

If children have underlying conditions then that should be taken into account. Fatigue parents know what’s normal for their child and what isn’t

Your school is being sensible. Every single covid case in my primary started with those symptoms, not the big three.

I wish my head would do the same.

Wheezing? Is that in list? DS has spells of wheezing since little. Not asthmatic (officially)

My son had covid and only symptoms runny nose and sneezing so I agree with the list.

Brilliant idea! Surely kids with a runny nose being kept at home would reduce the amount of kids with a runny nose?

I’m a teacher in a high school and the amount of times kids sneeze into hands and then touch other stuff or other kids without washing their hands is gross. I’m always full of cold, I would really appreciate the ones bringing it in being off to reduce the amount of times I’m ill.

My son has hayfever already and a post viral wheeze that is suspected asthma if I went by the list he would never be at school

Maybe now is the time to explore hayfever medication / treatment and to also get your child's allergy on record at school?

I have certainly kept my own children home for much smaller levels of illness than I would in previous years because I want to help my community to stop spread. It is frustrating, but so is a global pandemic!

Seems sensible to cover the symptoms that children present with.

Why is this so hard for,people,to get their heads round? There are thousands of school staff not yet vaccinated and plenty more who are but who can still get covid and need time off. If you allow your children in school with symptoms, it’s going to do the rounds, close bubbles and potentially whole schools. Again. And all these infected children will carry it home to their parents, grandparents etc. The vaccine is not quite a cure-all. We can still get ill and remember ‘mild’ covid is knocking some people out for weeks, if not months. And that’s without thinking about the impact of new strains.

Just do as you are asked or everyone will be off again in a matter of weeks.

Didn't say I wouldn't oblige
Just worried about the lost education from it for my daughter