Is covid ripping through your school?

[whattodo2019]

Both schools my DC attend and the school
I work at now have numerous covid cases for the first time!!! Is it just inevitable
that under the current guidelines, all these kids are going to get covid? The staff feel like ticking times bombs despite being vaccinated.
Like many establishments, we have newly
of staff, vulnerable staff, staff with vulnerable family members, very anxious older staff.... It's nerve wracking waiting for it to hit!

We have loads of cases in multiple years in our primary. Around 10-15 cases per year group in juniors with teachers off too.
The head told me that PHE had told her not to inform the parents any more (I know some of the teachers hence knowing case numbers). The advice is not to reinstate bubbles until 10% of the school is infected!

Marsha - asymptomatic testing 2x week is still ongoing in our school (on premises, not at home) until at least oct half term.

My teens aren't doing them anymore as are many others but most do so lots are having to isolate. It's not rocking science tho - those positive and isolating have volunteered to continue testing. There's nothing wrong with any of them. Many of the year 11 have stopped with the tests now due to fear of missing school

Yes. I feel like I'm hanging on to my last nerve again.

Yes. Primary. Worst it’s been: 5 members of staff, apparently 28 kids. 5 kids off in my class yesterday.

I had it in October, and double jabbed, but one colleague off with it has diabetes and another has a husband with lots of health issues - so stressful for them.

The school I work at has over 50 kids currently off with Covid. Medium sized Secondary. If this was pre summer most of the school would be home SI. Only 2 members of staff though. Apparently the only families that have heard from T and T are contacts via sleepovers/long car journeys rather than who they sit next to in school, so only minimal testing of contacts done.

@Watapalava

Well those year 11’s teachers will still be testing so they won’t get much learning done when their teachers keep being off for 10 days and emergency cover gets called in to supervise a class of which they have no specialist knowledge and can’t manage the behaviour of 30 pissed off kids

Loads in my DDs secondary and my DSs primary. Plus there’s a nasty virus doing the rounds which I have caught and feel like shit - had Covid before and it’s not that but still feel rubbish.

Fed up of it all now. Just want to feel healthy!

@UsedUpUsername

The staff feel like ticking times bombs despite being vaccinated

Very dramatic. Do you do this every year during flu season?

I've never had half a class ill at once with flu. I'm fact, it's quite rare that any of my pupils catch flu.

I have lots of my pupils ill with covid. One class was down to only 13 kids left in school last week. I assume that's the class I caught it from. I feel really shit, but I'm not worried about being hospitalized now I'm fully vaccinated.

My class with the most positive cases are year 11. The ones who have done their 10 days at home and come back have all said they felt rotten and would have been off sick anyway. There are a few who haven't come back yet, even though their 10 days are up. They are still too tired/Ill to cope with a full day at school.

It must be ripping through our secondary school, because face masks were reintroduced and all off-premises activities (like matches) are cancelled. Other local schools must be the same, as DS's rugby club suspended training.

DS2 has been in and out of school with constipation. He needs something to rip through him to shift the abdominal cramps

@RunningStrong

No, not where I work. There's a nasty cold/bug doing the rounds but no positive tests so far.

My kids have had that

Kids primary school no. But just visited another small primary (single form entry) and in the last five days alone they have 35 confirmed cases. Two year groups sent home for pcrs.

Yes, first confirmed in school transmissions. Back to all day masks and kids having to LFT at school, lots off but don't know exact numbers, school haven't said

My school is well into double figures with cases and probably not too far off triple figures if you included students off awaiting PCR results. I know there have been cases at my son's school but we have not been informed. When I questioned this the head told me they had been advised not to inform parents. Students at my school were unaware there had been cases so as far as I know they aren't informing either. Daughters primary are informing the affected classes but not whole school. They have had a couple. Most people who think they ha e had no cases will just not have been told I'm afraid. Only a few schools are continuing to inform and test and trace seem to be ignoring school contacts. That's assuming students could provide contact details for their classmates or even know their names at this stage of the school year. It's a bad joke.

No bub

No idea where 'no bub' came from- sorry!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-58663866.amp

These Leicester stats are alarming. 'At the current rate of infection, it estimates around 11,000 Leicestershire pupils will be infected with the virus over the next 16 days.'

@middleager

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-58663866.amp

These Leicester stats are alarming. 'At the current rate of infection, it estimates around 11,000 Leicestershire pupils will be infected with the virus over the next 16 days.'

I’m in that area. Schools in Leicestershire go back a couple of weeks earlier than everywhere else in England, so it’s had longer to take hold. The schools in my part of Leicestershire had a surge over the last couple of weeks but are all on a downward trajectory now.

Our local secondary have just asked to be put into closer measures.

Primary email about each case and so far only two confirmed but we have a few off awaiting results and a few parents refusing to test their children due to upcoming events.

I know there have been cases at my son's school but we have not been informed. When I questioned this the head told me they had been advised not to inform parents. Students at my school were unaware there had been cases so as far as I know they aren't informing either

I find this strange. My son's school is not identifying students obviously, but we are being given an idea of numbers, to explain why increasing restrictions are being imposed. It presumably helps encourage people to comply eg with staying away from school with symptoms. We were also told the cases were concentrated in one year (which was then being isolated from previous years). I think it is useful to provide some rough, summary updates.

I definitely agree. It's wrong not to be informing families. My students asked why I was still wearing a mask as we didn't have cases any more. They were quite shocked when I told them we had more cases now than at any point previously.

Quite a lot of the students have been really ill with it. Not hospital poorly but bed bound for a couple of weeks and definitely too sick for school. We have had students lose parents and have had a staff member pass away so it makes me quite angry to hear people dismiss the need for testing and controlling the spread in schools.

We have been informed as both our children were deemed near contacts, I think is the terminology. In Scotland. No need to stay off school but for us to be alert to symptoms. I think that’s fair as otherwise you’re sharing personal data about who has Covid and you can’t do that.

Also we’re all still in marks, year group bubbles and 1m social distancing adults to children (not really happening though!) and 1m between staff.

No in school contacts are being acknowledged in England as far as I can tell. Schools have never been able to disclose names, but previously were sending messages out saying there had been a case in such and such a year group. They could continue to do this, and some are, but many are not.

All 3 of my dc (3 different schools) have been pinged this week. One has tested negative and has gone back in and I have another home with me while he waits for his result. The other is allowed in with daily negative daily lateral flow tests.