School Proms

[DinkyDaisy]

Just seeing if most school Proms been cancelled now.
My ds school not said so yet- but I have warned him to brace himself for disappointment. He is convinced his school will get round it. I am not so sure though know they will try their very best for year 11.
What is happening in other schools?
Thanks.

Think "trying their best" would be cancelling the prom to avoid hosting a superspreader event, so presumably it will get cancelled. Ones local to us are already cancelled.

Cancelled here.

Along with activities week/theme park trip. Kids pretty sad about it.

Cancelled here, as well as NCS

Moved to an outdoor event here

Date changed from 2 July to 20 July.
We shall see if it goes ahead.

Ours was cancelled last September…

We still haven't heard anything. My DD has a hair trial this evening so I need to know whether to cancel or not.

Date changed so still going ahead

The venue have cancelled my DS’ year 6 prom. The organising committee are trying to find another venue. I’m hoping that the school will agree to it being held there as they have a covered playground.

I'm trying to make sense of the guidance. If they have an outside prom, do they have to stick to groups of 30? So lots of groups as long as they don't mingle? My year 11 ds is in a whole year bubble though they all left before half term.

DH’s school proms cancelled. Also end of term activities and y6 transition days. The staff are gutted for the kids.

Cruel! Our poor, endlessly disappointed and upset children This thing is over, vulnerable are vaccinated, delta variant cases spreading but not causing any major problems. This could all have ended by now if the frightened weren’t shouting the loudest.

Just seen a tweet that New York is now scrapping every single covid restriction at 70% vaccinated. We have an estimated 80% of people with antibodies, what is the problem with the British?!

This is so sad. They're already in a bubble together so surely they can do something.

My year 6 dd has a proper transisition day next month that's still going ahead and an end of year party. We're south west so still very low cases. Maybe it's the infection rate for the area that's stopping things?

@JeanClaudeVanDammit that’s such a shame, our transition day next week is still going ahead we have had it confirmed. We haven’t heard anything about prom being cancelled either.

@Lostinacloud

Cruel! Our poor, endlessly disappointed and upset children This thing is over, vulnerable are vaccinated, delta variant cases spreading but not causing any major problems. This could all have ended by now if the frightened weren’t shouting the loudest.

Just seen a tweet that New York is now scrapping every single covid restriction at 70% vaccinated. We have an estimated 80% of people with antibodies, what is the problem with the British?!

1. Vaccine take up in the US is slowing - nearly everyone who wants a vaccine now has one. Little point in a delay if it doesn't result in more vaccinated.

2. The Delta variant hasn't been seeded across the state in the way BJ allowed it to be in the UK

3. Cases in NY are low and falling - largely because of (2)

4. The city is scrapping the mandates it imposed. Federal mandates remain in place e.g. compulsory masks on public transport.

@Flowerlane they’ve got something like 20 feeder primary schools so I think they’re trying to find an alternative way to do it but it seems to be proving a bit complicated. Think they did them online last year but obviously that’s not the same.

As long as they're all in their year group bubble, they are allowed to go ahead. Ideally they would be outdoors.
I hope my daughters goes ahead.

DD1 school never planned one this year - they were in year group bubbles.

They are trying to meet up in friednship groups themsleves outside and have a picnic in next few weeks.

Nothing from DD’s school yet. I’m assuming it will be cancelled though

Although, year 11 have been in a year group bubble - they’ve been together all day, every day, in school for months so 🤞

Yes @strangeshapedpotato you’ve answered one of my previous posts where I mentioned the US openings in a similar way. But then how do you explain that states like Florida and Texas abandoned everything in March and still to this day haven’t seen a spike in cases? They may not have seen the delta variant but they had the alpha one spreading there.

Delayed until September

A really nice email, I know they feel bad about it but not their fault obviously

It’s a shame though

I’m just so fed up with it. My yr6 was supposed to be in the south of france, my yr8 in the Alps for an activity week as well. Sports day is going ahead but only one year group per day and no parent spectators so they are filming it by drone . My yr2’s little music show is also now on teams and there is no leaver’s party for yr6. This is now almost 2 school years of disruption, chaos and abnormal school life, it’s too much to ask of children now. It needs to be over, they do not need to keep paying the debt to keep god knows who safe now that pretty much everyone who needs it or wants it has been vaccinated.

Lost I know

I have a yr6 stuck at home for ten days because 1 person was around half the school for about a minute. It needs to be looked at

Has anyone seen this

schoolsweek.co.uk/consider-holding-proms-outdoors-dfe-tells-schools-after-freedom-day-delay/

Well today the local inter sports primary comp postponed to sept but my child's year 6.
No idea of year 6 leavers thing can go ahead or transition day at senior school.