Imposing restrictions in school again? PHE letter to Local Authority

[kessiebird]

We live in one Local Authority (A). My DD attends school over the border in neighbouring LA (B) , my DS attends a specialist secondary school in yet another LA (C). All within 20 mins drive or 30 mins on the bus, it's not as bad as it sounds!

Yesterday neighboring LA (B) , on the basis of PHE advice, wrote out to both my DDs primary and her feeder secondary, to ask them to reimpose some restrictions. Secondary school tour after half term is cancelled and no nativity at primary. Letter on secondary school website tightening up all measures in that school. Nothing from my DS's school in LA (C).

Is this just one LA, or did anyone else get school letters starting to reimpose restrictions?

Did a face to face tour of a secondary in LA (A) last week but the secondary feeder school in LA(B) is DD's first choice. I really wanted to go and visit. Wondering if I'm BU and this is happening country wide? Or if its worth writing to LA (B)?

Yesterday the school letters felt familiarly depressing 😵

[quote BustopherPonsonbyJones]@Brickskithouse
I don’t think we can pretend to children that this is normal yet. You are lying to them and they aren’t stupid. And if we keep up the pretence of normality, it is just going to take us longer to get back to actually being normal.

After school activities are funny ones. Outside (football, rugby) seems to be less of a problem but changing rooms are an issue. Art, drama, dance and other inside activities definitely contributed to spreading Covid. Again, we need to adapt whilst cases are high in a school[/quote]
In the run up to half term, in response to exceptionally high cases in he relevant age group (post the false negative cases scandal), we restricted extracurricular clubs to those that involved a single year group and/or were outside. Changing for the latter was segregated by year group, so no mixing indoors.

We also stopped all activities e.g. assemblies that mixed year groups inside. Yes, of course, there is unavoidable contact between year groups through siblings. However, restricting optional indoor mixing that has minimal Impact on children's’ education is a sensible first step.