Any schools coming out of the other side of Covid ripping through?

[Warhertisuff]

Just interested to hear whether any schools have weathered a Covid infection storm, and emerged with cases now falling and things getting back to normal, and hopefully a sense of relief that the school will be largely immune for the year ahead.

@RobinPenguins

Barely any in DH’s school but they had loads in July and ended up closing for summer a few days early.

Snap!

No but hopeful it won't be long. Last term it wiped through y10-13, this term seems to be y7-9 (had y9 all out and then all 3years pcr tested). Hoping next weeks vaccination and the fact that the majority have had covid will start to help slow cases down.

They'd been back for autumn term for one week and one day when DS came out and said he felt ill and that a quarter of the class were off with COVID. School had said nothing. The next day they sent an email saying there were high numbers (secondary school which has 1000 pupils), and it was prevelant in my son's year group.

DS went back the next week, as his virus was not COVID. He told me that half the class were now off with COVID and the school confirmed this, but sent a pathetic email "politely requesting" that parents didn't send in a child with symptoms without first having a negative PCR test returned.

We are now four weeks into term and half his class are still off with covid.

No, hardly any Covid cases at our schools. Lots of colds though!

We are in the peak here (SW) local school has 140 cases in a 600 pupil school!

Bloody hell @Acer82 thats a lot! Im guessing you had few cases last year?

No idea about my DC school at all. Only here if we know the kid or family.
At the Secondary I work in wrbpraked at 100 cases around 10 days ago. Back down to 57 today. Only know beacause of the legal requirements to set work. No contacts told anything. Fewer staff than children getting it.

Really high figures when school went back, now seem to be going down each week. We are in Scotland, so have been back at school longer, and there does seem to be a downward trend.

Just got a message from DS 13 school saying there are cases, not in his year though. It’s not like they are isolating now unless you get symptoms so....I don’t need to panic about DS routine being changed for the 20th time in the last 2 years ( he has ASD)

I still have no clue at all about covid numbers in any of my dcs 4 education settings. Ds17 had a bad cold which wiped him out last month. He did two LFT which was negative then refused to do more and refused a PCR. He is 1 month off 18 had none of the three classic symptoms so I cannot force him. It moved to his chest then went. I still wonder if it was covid. He is convinced it couldn't be. Ds13 could have the vaccine but after the talk of letting older kids choose without parental permission- he has refused. It was my choice for his HPV but given them a choice with the covid vax hasnt worked out for this. No idea about the younger two either. I dont know really but the older two are clearly not scared of this any more. So I have no ideas at all about the the local education numbers. I'm totally unaware there it's not really possible to be concerned as it's very much less real once it's not discussed

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I in 7 kids off in secondary schools apparently.

Our school has gone quite quiet but had over 50 off in the year above a week or 2 ago.

4/30 off in the class currently it would seem

Our school said parents should not worry about school closing again as currently less than 10% of the school have it. We have had 3 out of 4 of us down with it. Other secondary has about 10 out of 800 or so out with it currently plus 2 teachers and says originating out of school for them in almost all cases, thats the highest they have been since it started. Other school was very high pre end of summer term and lots of kids are also in there with colds and d and v saying not covid but same symptoms as ones testing positive, y11 seems worst hit.

200 kids off at the moment. It is rife.

I taught a full class yesterday and it felt really weird - some classes down to less than 10 kids in school.

Staff off too, with covid and with burnout.

My husband’s school has lots of staff and children off with a horrible cold that isn’t covid

Ours had huge numbers in June and July and had to close as so many, including staff, were affected. Since reopening in September it's been pretty uneventful due presumably natural immunity.

In my DC school, it's only been the teachers off with covid.

It's a small school. We only had 2 cases last year. Only 1 DC got sent home once. They're going back to pretty much normal now. No one cares when all of the other hideous colds, illnesses and viruses are rampant in schools. How many people have chickenpox parties?

Kids been at school 7 weeks here. Break up for Oct hols in a matter of days. All good

No loads of cases. Kids and staff are now having to do LFT every day before school as the cases are so high.

My dd primary the first and second full week there was loads. Some distancing measures reintroduced.

Cases have dropped back down and things are back to normal. Let's see if they go up again!

Levels are pretty constant in my school.
As someone upthread said, its going round and round.

We've had a couple of cases but no classes or most students have been sent home or asked to test.

@Porcupineintherough

Bloody hell *@Acer82* thats a lot! Im guessing you had few cases last year?

No, hardly any last year in our schools compared to other places in the country.

Small village primary here - we had less than a handful of cases up until the summer holidays but since the start of term it's been going through each year group in turn. I don't think enough children have had it yet for there to be enough immunity in the school for it to make any difference, and fully expect this to continue at least until Christmas.

Not slowing here in the NE England. More than 10% off kids and staff. Still no masks though!
We all got Covid within two weeks of the start of this term. We only had 2 cases last year!

We had pretty much half of the school off over the last fortnight but concentrated into three year groups. In those year groups it appears to have disappeared. Unfortunately it is now racing through another two year groups which have, perhaps, an optimistic quarter of the children left in. Touch wood, no more staff have caught it this week but we had loads absent and a significant number have been too ill to return after their quarantine time and are still absent.

What is worrying me is that some of the children are on their third confirmed case of Covid and it doesn’t follow that it becomes milder. Some of the adults (double vaccinated) are on their second round and have said the same.

As we predicted, teaching is difficult and dangerous at the moment.