Full year group off

[dazzlerdo]

So I work in a secondary school. Today we have had all of year 9 off isolating and will be the same next week. Also only had 40 year 10 students in due to the rest isolating.

Is it looking bad again for schools, what is it like in your area/schools?
I'm from South Yorkshire, also heard of a few other local schools having year groups off!

Yeah, grandson's class got sent home last week , had to isolate for 4 days.

Our first set of self-isolation throughout the entire pandemic starts today for our secondary child.

Guess we have been lucky not to have had to do this until now. Bit gutted we didn't make it to the holidays but we are where we are.

Just over the border into W Yorks @dazzlerdo. Local high school has whole Sixth Form and half of Y9 off. Y11 have left. (We have middle schools, so high school is only Y9-Y13). 1 first school has 2 years out, 1 has 1 year out - this is what I know of. I do hope it’s is over in the next academic year.

Local secondary. 2 year 7 groups been out, yr 9 to yr 13 out. PHE sent a mobile testing unit in. Now our primary has yr 5 and 6 out. We’ve never had a case at primary. South East

NW, DPs secondary has a year group out.

Madness to think this is happening in summer, god help us come September. Delta has spread rapidly in schools within a month and half. If you factor in summer holidays as a fire break, October is going to be chaos once it starts spreading again.

I'm in the East. Our rural county has low rates of covid and is one of the top for vaccination rollout. Last week at DD's school, Year 9 were out, Year 12 joined them a few days later and about 1/4 of Year 10 joined them a few days later.

Oh FFS...when is this going to end!

North west. Two schools. Utter shit show.

I wish the tories wouldn't keep relying on school holidays to deal with case numbers.

Where I live, there is 1 year group which is not in in ANY local secondary. Every single child in that year group is isolating, whichever school they attend. Often tens of cases in each school.

I don't think there is any secondary without at least one other year group affected as well.

This is in a (previously) very low case rate area, well ahead by all vaccine metrics. It's all exploded since half term, almost certainly due to holidays in the far SW, itself now a hotspot.

Rural primary, no covid cases at all the entire pandemic until now. Now two year groups off, and there are siblings across the school linked to those years so it's a matter of time I expect until more are off. Lots of other rural primaries around us, in the whole of the pandemic two had cases up to now. About 4 or 5 with cases and years isolating this time. Delta really does seem to be different.

Why the fuck are the government doing nothing, literally nothing, to try and stop spread in schools? No money for better ventilation. No masks , no social distancing. Nothing. Last summer in my DCs primary they had smaller class sizes with extra money for extra TAs. Nothing now with a more transmissible, deadlier variant.

It's disgusting, most other countries are doing much, much more for their children.

South Hertfordshire and one secondary school in my town closed in full

The Tories solution will be to ignore teachers / heads/ unions / advisors, avoid putting in extra safety measures such as good ventilation, change the rules to allow all children to stay in school, ignore the people who get sick, allow new variants to develop and stick their collective heads in the sand.

SE London, no positive cases or burst bubbles for months in local secondary and primary school

You are lucky. Its really taking off in the SW.

Whole school shut down for a mini circuit break of 5 days.

I’m almost scared to type it in case I jinx it, but DS’ primary has had no cases at all this entire time. I’ve got my fingers crossed that they can make it till the end of term but rumour has it that the delta plus variant is in the village. North Wales btw.

Does anyone know what the plan is post 19th July? Surely they can’t keep asking kids to isolate like this?

London primary hole school been closed over a week as so many cases in every year

@theemperorhasnoclothes

Why the fuck are the government doing nothing, literally nothing, to try and stop spread in schools? No money for better ventilation. No masks , no social distancing. Nothing. Last summer in my DCs primary they had smaller class sizes with extra money for extra TAs. Nothing now with a more transmissible, deadlier variant.

It's disgusting, most other countries are doing much, much more for their children.

If they cared they would already be doing this. So there is your answer.

It doesn’t help that they’re incredibly useless too.

I live in NW with primary DC and there are only 2 classes in in her school now. Up until now they've not had any cases except one class had to isolate in December as a TA was positive. Dreading autumn term. The children who were positive in my DD's class were all picked up on parent LFTs and child had confirmation PCR. None had the classic covid symptoms, most either had no symptoms or 'hayfever' type symptoms like stuffy/runny nose.

Can I ask are any of the children sick?

Dc year group has closed in primary. One child very poorly. Local high school has three year groups out. We are north east.