School cases - quick straw poll

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For those of you who had a child identified as a "close contact", did your child / many in the class go on to test positive?

You can probably guess what the phone call I've just taken was about!!

3 isolations between 2 children. No other children in primary caught the virus. Not sure of secondary but I think they all were fine. They were all
Back after the isolation anyway.

Secondary school teacher here whose child is isolating at the moment!

Not in the past, but 3 people in DS’s class have gone onto test positive this time and, of every bubble we have sent home in the last 3 weeks, at least one pupil has gone onto test positive. We have 1 year where so many pupils subsequently tested positive we have closed the whole year group for 10 days.

So, if you had asked me before may I would have said nothing to worry about! Now, I would say keep your eyes peeled.

Back in November and December my class had two fortnights of isolation due to positive cases. For the first one, we were then notified of six more positives amongst children in the class. During the second isolation we heard about three more positives amongst children, but two of those led to their whole family being infected and a dad and mum (of separate families) spending Christmas in hospital.

We were naively hoping that being hit early on might have reduced our risk this time around, but a peripatetic music teacher has tested positive this weekend and sent a handful of children from each class into isolation as close contacts.

No.

One no and one yes. The yes was just before Christmas and they had to close the school as so many were down with it though so it may not have been from that contact.

My son had isolate 10days because 1 case in his bubble which turned into 9 kids being infected so nearly 1/3 of 1 class.

My daughters best mate just got postive
7 cases her year group at seniors some same classes but school randomly worked out close contacts and not contacted us today as she has self isolate.
Jury's out no idea she got covid her lateral flow was negative yesterday.

One positive case in a primary class led to whole class self-isolating. Within a couple of days there were 5 more positive cases.

Not sure how many kids got it but all year 2 and year 4 told to isolate until test and trace got to then. Most of close contacts had been sent home by then but my ds had to self isolate for 4 days. My son heard 12
In year 2 had it

Yes-it spread quite a lot in the cases in Y12/8 that I was aware of. They tried isolating close contacts but this didn’t seem to contain it and there were so many cases in the end that they had to send the whole year groups home (for y12/8).

For the Y2 case-it closed the class. They don’t do LFD tests in primary but during the closure, there were a LOT of children with upset stomachs which I’ve heard is a covid sign in children.

3 isolations for DC’s room at nursery. AFAIK there were never any further cases in the children. For 2 of the 3 times it seemed, reading between the lines, to be staff rather than child cases in the first place.

@ForeverSausages

In our second isolation in 3 weeks after a teacher tested positive and then another teacher (year 1 son was only back 2 days). It's now gone up to 9 children in his class of 31 testing positive but I think that's because they've asked all the children to do PCR tests so not sure how many displayed symptoms. We're waiting on my son's results (he's absolutely fine) and praying self isolation will end soon 🤞.

Sounds a lot like my sons school!

Yes and 14 didn't return last week 8 cases to my knowledge definitely positive.

We've had 1 isolation for DS nursery and 1 for DD Yr2. Neither DC showed any symptoms of having caught it, but then again when we DID actually have Covid during lockdown (and realistically it can only have come from DS but he wasn't tested) he didn't have any symptoms then either..

Small Primary - first time 5 out of 11 children went on to test positive
Second time - 4 bubbles shut so approx 100 children isolating, around 8-10 cases including 2 staff & a parent
Third time - only 1 bubble closed, only the initial person, no-one else tested positive.

DC1 had to isolate last year but nobody else in the class (only the teacher) tested positive. A friend is a teacher and said one of her classes has almost all of them testing positive. The delta variant is so much more transmissible in children.

3 other children in the classroom caught it from the first positive case. The school was doing everything right...windows open, hands sanitised until they were raw, etc.

All of the 3 children then passed it on to their own siblings.

This was before Delta too.

But in another classroom, no one caught it (also pre Delta)

Yes. One child and 6 subsequent children positive.

My child tested positive this week a few days after the class was sent home to self isolate.

My DS sat next to 2 children who tested positive but he didn't catch it from either of them x

We currently have every year group off except yr4, who were off but returned last week. So, at least one in each year group. Think there were at least two in yr4.

My daughters class had one case with no others testing positive.
At work we had a staff member and one boy in year 4 test positive with no further cases.
In Reception class we had one positive case with another child testing positive 3 days later. No more positive cases at all.

8 children had it at secondary school (a group of friends), some or all of them seem to have passed it to other children in the year.

Whole year group sent home. I don't have any figures as to how many out of those - lets say 60 kids - got it in the end.

No inductions for incoming Y6 kids as their primaries said we don't want to risk children going into secondary schools.

Delta seems to be proving fairly catchy in a classroom scenario.

Catchy - now there's the sort of terminology Chris Whitty would be proud of......

Any excuse to post an A-ha video, we just need to swap lyrics from 'touchy' to 'catchy'. Theme tune for Covid.

Just felt the need for a smidge of dark humour.

In December there was about 10 in each year group across most of the school for one if my children. In another school we have had two bubble isolations based on a single case -December and now - and I haven’t heard about any other cases either time and I think I would hear from the parents on WhatsApp.

Both of mine have been told fo.isolate as close contacts in the past week.

DC1 (high school age) has tested positive, whole school closed due to volume of cases although exact number not communicated

DC2 (Primary age), still in isolation period but PCR taken earlier this week was negative. Not aware of any further cases

Around half-term we had 6 children in one class.