Is it just our school?

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Secondary school. Has been back for 4 days. Each day only 2 year groups went in so they could test everyone. Two year groups already sent home to isolate?!?!

Not just your school.

Primary. All back in Monday.

2 year group bubbles burst already.

Actual infections not necessarily any higher than last September, just millions of asymptomatic kids being test, inevitably many positives will be found (small percentage will be false positives).
Hopefully the transmission will be minimal.

How does this compute with the notion that infection rates are really low?

According with DC, 3 kids tested positive in the year! And more kids on other two years. According with governamental numbers we have close to zero infections....

I think it really just backs up the scientific theory that asymptomatic people don't contribute much to transmission (unless you live in close proximity in same household perhaps).
I think the tests have only been underway for a few days so will take a little while to feed into the daily statistics. It was always stated that the daily figures were not actually that specific day's data.

Not at our school. All 3 tests were done before classes started so no mixing occured until all 3 tests were done.

6000 tests in 6 days. Around 10 positives who are all currently isolating. Rest of school back as normal.

Numbers were crunched looking at classes of those 10 positives, who they would have mixed with. Had they been back in class and tested positive, we would have had in the region of 1000 kids isolating.

6000 tests in 6 days was no mean feat but seems worth it to prevent 1000 isolations.

Same. Positive tests. Three quarters of year 10 class sent home.

our school is testing over the day so kids arrive at a set time for testing. no kids mix until the test result is negative. they get tested and sit separately in a large room waiting for the results before they are allowed to mix with anyone else.

it is particularly frustrating, because our head sent this very strong worded letter saying: this is it. No going back to any kind of other measures! But I think for the children that keeps getting isolated, this is much worse, no? If this keeps going, there needs to be some reassessment...

Primary school here, 1 class shut Monday, 1 class shut today 😩 There's only 5 classes in the school, and lots of siblings in different classes, so it only feels like a matter of time before the school is closed again. The teachers must feel like sitting ducks.
Just so frustrating, it felt so optimistic and like we were seeing the light at the end of the tunnel 😭

yes. much worse when kid was in and out of school than when they were in as vulnerable and it was consistent. they missed 30 days of school in autumn term.

Did they test them before they went back, so they hadn’t mixed until they had the results? My year 7 tested Friday, went back on Monday, he says some people are missing, so don’t know if that is because they were positive, but as they hadn’t been in the classroom together if they were then it didn’t affect the others.
My year 5 is already at home isolating after 3 days though

My dc's school did staggered back to school. Dc's are called in at different times, and only allowed back if tested neg. So no mixing occurred before testing.

I think it's going to go a bit mad for a fortnight then settle down.
We should have been testing kids at the start of September.

@megletsecond

I think it's going to go a bit mad for a fortnight then settle down. We should have been testing kids at the start of September.

This. Not only were kids not tested in September, but it was really difficult to even get tests for symptomatic kids.

No. Students actually removed from classroom during lesson so I suppose it could have spread in that time.

I think it's going to go a bit mad for a fortnight then settle down.

But then it's Easter ... and what's going to happen then???

Families are then meant to test themselves. Is that going to work? I doubt it very much.

Our school doesn't test kids

We just have to hope for the best 🙄

Nursery already shut due to positive tests from staff.

Who is next?

I don't quite understand though... our school is testing this week so they can all restart next week.

They use a specific one way in, separated by markers on the floor and wearing masks, go in for their test, go out a different door. No one in class or mixing before 2nd result is back!

Children testing positive shouldn't have been in class mixing and therefore taking out the whole rest of the class/year? Surely that makes the process pointless

Why are people so surprised?! 5000 people a day are still testing positive 🤷🏼‍♀️ School is going to be the same as it was since September?! Not every child’s parent has been WFH in relative isolation. Kids will have parents who are doctors, nurses, teachers, nursery workers, bus drivers, factory workers etc etc! Or have younger siblings in nursery settings etc..

Doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have gone back. But bubbles will burst.

I thought the whole point of secondary testing was to stop whole year groups isolating?

Our school has now tested all pupils: 3 positives who are isolating at home, rest of kids all in school. They weren't allowed to mix before the test results.

In our school they did have tests the week before. But they are being tested 3 times this week to teach them how to do it on their own at home in the future. I assume the kids that tested positive today, did not get tested positive last week?

It’s been rare for LFD’s tests to be positive in the secondary testing but when it has happened,in the schools I’ve worked with , the children were seated in large areas until the results came back , meaning only the people sat next to them were sent home , if they weren’t kept 2 metres apart. I’ve seen no examples of whole year groups being sent home , so it that way, it’s extremely unusual, our secondary schools have used the close contact definition from the beginning of September and have NEVER sent home whole year groups home in secondary schools, to still be doing it now is just negligent

Many schools didn’t take delivery of their tests until AFTER kids went back.

Yes, Jeremy Vine show had a section on this. One parent was saying her DC had been sent home due to a positive LFT in a pupil which led to many pupils being sent home.

If only the tests had been done at home in the first place, only the one pupils would be isolating at home and not all their contacts too.

Incidentally, the pupil subsequently had a negative PCR, but all the pupils are stuck at home, despite it being clear that the pupil does not covid-19 and neither do their close contacts...

Our primary has been fine, appreciate it's a bit different to secondary though.