What happens if covid postive gcse time?

[3asAbird]

Really worried eldest is year 11.
No date for jabs
Mocks next month.
To my knowledge shes never had covid.
I know vaccines don't stop transmission so won't guarantee she doesn't get covid in spring.
Also you can catch covid twice.

So there maybe many kids sitting gcses and a levels next spring the 1st year to sit actuall exams since 2019.

What happens if they have covid?
Have no school asked the DFE this question.
Shes more likely catch covid in school as mass gathering with no mitigating measures , no vaccines.

At the moment many teachers are preparing for a hybrid system. Mocks will be supremely important this year and personally I have built in a number of formal mini assessments in lessons to build a body of evidence for a TAG if needed.
Don't forget schools are in a state of flux with very limited information coming DfE - mostly nothing is being disseminated to parents at this stage because nothing has been finalised. Doesn't mean the work isn't frantically going on behind the scenes.

Presumably they'd do what they've always done if someone wasn't well enough to sit the exam on the day (which was to use a combination of coursework marks, mocks etc.)

Probably the same procedure as pre covid for illness. You need a Dr letter and then your exam is rearranged.

It would be a special consideration request sent to the exam board. There are processes in place for illness.

It would presumably be the same as usual if a child is ill. If they have completed a certain proportion of the qualification (eg did one exam but not the other as started throwing up that day) it is a bit easier as grade can be extrapolated. Obviously with covid it's more likely they'd miss both/all the exams.

@balloonsintrees

At the moment many teachers are preparing for a hybrid system. Mocks will be supremely important this year and personally I have built in a number of formal mini assessments in lessons to build a body of evidence for a TAG if needed. Don't forget schools are in a state of flux with very limited information coming DfE - mostly nothing is being disseminated to parents at this stage because nothing has been finalised. Doesn't mean the work isn't frantically going on behind the scenes.

Thanks teenagers bit stressed and so am I as last 2 years everyone exams were cancelled but this year potentially a large amount may not be able to sit them in covid infections are high at exam time as as they are now.

Several of her teachers are off seems wiped out the maths department.
Art teacher and head of art is off until after Xmas.
Been told no art exam next year just coursework.
Poetry is gone from English exam
Equation will be given for maths and science .
No further maths this year just triple or double science and maybe some foundation.

I said treat mocks like the real thing.
But school not admitting any infections to parents we finding out from the kids.
Girl she sat next to history yesterday covid postive and several returned last week apparently after having covid.
Also school saying unless they absent if they have covid then absence be unauthorised and no access to remote learning say for example rest of household had covid and we all self isolated.

She could get covid mocks week or actual gcse its that unknown worry.
No idea when she vaccinated then takes so many days give some protection and she's only getting 1 dose which we told as adults is only 30% effective.
Mocks are mid November not convinced we have vaccines by then.

Girl she sat next to history yesterday covid postive

She may well be incubating it already then. Combine it with a single dose of vaccine and she'll have very good protection and unlikely to have it again before the end of her exams.

With a y11 child who's just returned after having covid, that's how I'm comforting myself anyway!

@3teens2cats

Probably the same procedure as pre covid for illness. You need a Dr letter and then your exam is rearranged.

This might be the case for mocks or internal exams, but wouldn’t be true for external exams. They’re never ‘rearranged’.

I think that you should cross that bridge when you come to it. Get her vaccinated, strong odds on her being absolutely fine.

They're putting two exams for the same subject e.g. maths at least 10 days apart. If they sit one exam of the two/ three for that subject, that will be their grade. That's the contingency plan.

Sorry, that's a national thing for the summer. Not a specific school. They will have had to take at least one paper to grade. No idea what would happen if they were too ill for both or all papers.

Every year there are thousands of pupils across the country that don't sit exams because they are unwell. This is not a new thing since Covid came along. Schools have contingency plans in place for things like this so they would follow the same plan for someone off with Covid as they would with someone off with flu/injury etc.

That’s interesting @Seaswimmingdeservesasunnyday. I’d not heard that but I just checked the draft timetable and it’s clear in that. Both English language exams are usually before half term, but this time there is one before and one after. The two English Literature papers are also split much further than usual.

I mean, it won't help if a student is off for a long time. In normal times, if they hadn't taken any exams, they wouldn't be able to grade at all (another reason why getting rid of coursework was foolish). I think they will need a contingency plan for the few this may apply to, but having a bigger gap between exams will help.

More detail here schoolsweek.co.uk/2022-exams-what-you-need-to-know-about-plan-b/

I'm in the Northwest my year ten 14 yr old was vaccinated last week, so fingers crossed you will hear soon, hes also had covid a few months ago, and was fine after a day or two.

I think a first dose is more than 30% effective in a teenager who will have a much better immune response than an adult.