Schools from September

[DinosaurDiana]

I was working in a school yesterday and the lady helping me said that all staff are in next Monday Tuesday to put the school back to normal.
All stickers are being removed, all classrooms and rooms put back to the way they were pre Covid.
So are all schools going back to normal ?

Most of the mitigations in school are utterly useless anyway. The mitigations that would actually help were never put in place.

Nobody knows what's going to happen in September, at the moment cases are sky rocketing and hospital admissions and deaths, are rising albeit at a much lower rate hopefully we will peak sometime over the summer holidays, but we will have to see how things stand in September.

@BoredZelda

Yes there will be more covid around without restrictions but there is a risk no matter what.

You know how risk works, right? More Covid = more risk. Less Covid = less risk. Those who are vulnerable aren’t looking for no risk, they are asking people to help keep the risk low.

I'm aware of that. But rhetoric like 'wonder...whether they will be saying the same thing if their child develops long COVID or T1 diabetes' implies that restriction prevent your child from developing long covid. They do not. So this notion that if you're against restrictions you're somehow asking for your child to be ill makes no sense, children get ill with restrictions so on that front that point is not relevant.

@DinosaurDiana So are all schools going back to normal ?

Given what's going on presently with skyrocketing cases, steady increases in people in ventilator beds and nearly 1.5 million pupils in England isolating from school last week I think it's as likely that pigs will fly as schools running 'normally' again in 6weeks.

For a start having visitors on site - I'm pretty sure that will continue to be restricted.

Yet another dereliction of duty from the DfE in setting out a sensible plan for next academic year. It sees to be cross our fingers and hope everything is back to normal. We know how that strategy has panned out the least 2 years.

The long Covid and type 2 diabetes caused by Covid are very scary thoughts for our children. Our school isn’t going back to normal. They are continuing with bubbles and staggered starts etc etc.

Sorry type 1 diabetes.

Our secondary school have just sent an email saying basically all restrictions being removed. No staggered starts etc.
The only thing they're keeping is staggered lunch times as they found it makes queuing shorter.
We're in Lancashire so I had a horrible feeling they were going to keep the masks but thankfully they're being ditched.
Really please as middle son starts there in September and I wanted it as "normal" as possible

Our area has higher rates of covid now than at any time in the pandemic. It is already spreading quickly in the local schools with restrictions eg. face-coverings, one-way systems, staggered timetable/lunchbreaks. I don't think the current restrictions make a huge difference but I'm sure they make SOME difference. I know isolation for close contacts etc will be ending in August but I suspect that without any restrictions in September we will quickly find that loads of children/staff are off sick/isolating as positive cases. We're in a tourist area so the school holidays won't do anything to reduce infection rates here.

Our school have not said what their plans are for September (or next week for that matter- over half the staff are currently isolating and ours don't break up yet- so I half expect to be online).

We're not far from areas that only a few weeks ago were told to avoid unnecessary travel in/out of the area due to high cases. Our cases per 100,000 are now higher than cases were than but we are still being told we can have parties/ditch face-masks next week.

What an utter waste of time.

Apparently the gov expects all secondary pupils to have had 2 in school tests before returning so not very normal.

They could keep school more 'normal', whilst still putting some measures in e.g. ventilation - other countries have managed this. We are essentially saying long covid doesn't matter in kids and that is shameful. Suddenly measures to keep schools open in a responsible way, protecting CEV families, reducing risk of long covid etc don't seem to matter as soon as carrot of keeping schools open and ignoring covid are offered.

I really hope so. Kids and and young adults have really been like sacrificial lambs in all of this. They all need normality again.

The school I work in is keeping some measures, eating lunch in classrooms, playing in their year group bubbles in separated playground areas etc. We installed outside sinks as well which will continue to be used. So it's not the case that measures are being dropped everywhere and that's that.

DS's primary are continuing with bubbles until term ends on the 22nd and then back to 2019 normal from September.

"Apparently the gov expects all secondary pupils to have had 2 in school tests before returning so not very normal."
you don't have to do the tests so it can be made more normal

I'm still holding my breath expecting Boris to announce that freedom day is cancelled.

Too early for schools to know what will happen.

@thenakedmolerat

"Apparently the gov expects all secondary pupils to have had 2 in school tests before returning so not very normal." you don't have to do the tests so it can be made more normal

Why do people choose not to do this knowing they could be putting their so called friends at risk?

Seems a bit naive to me. The last thing I would do is trust Johnson to lead us in a sensible direction.

dd's school is keeping the systems in place until the end of term. We have higher rates than pretty much every where.

Next term, who knows. Whats being said now and the guidance come then could be 2 totally different things.

Why do people choose not to do this knowing they could be putting their so called friends at risk?

Because as a society, the only thing we care about is ourselves. It’s a very sad reflection of where we’re at that we don’t give a damn about the CB and the CEV amongst us.

www.change.org/p/department-of-education-schools-need-to-keep-and-improve-covid-mitigations-not-scrap-them-until-cases-dropping

No. Our primary school has just announced that the whole lot is staying in September. Staggered starts, bubbles, masks abs social distancing. So gutted 😞

I don’t think any of the safety measures in schools make any difference, tbh, so I’m glad. I couldn’t teach effectively running around the school!

I've heard through the grape vine (from a parent governor) that our school intend to keep some things in place. No clarification on what exactly.

We have another week left and had a message today, asking parents to continue to wear masks, after the 19th, FFS. We don't even go into the school. We all stand outside. In fact even pre covid parents only evet went into the school buildings for events. Not on a day to day basis.