What percentage of your DC primary class attended last lockdown?

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Mainly curiosity.

One of my main concerns regarding school closure is that my DC were in the minority of their class staying at home last time :(

I would say maybe 5-10 from each class of 30. Much less in the first lockdown and more in the January lockdown. Mine didn't go in the first lockdown, the school wasn't open itself - children who were in were sent to a partner school. In the January lockdown the school was open.

The school also did part time provision. Mine went in twice a week so it freed up space for others. Kids could be in 5 days if absolutely necessary (ie both parents keyworkers, single parent key workers and extremely vulnerable children).

I'm not a keyworker. Dp has worked throughout (not from home ) but not a keyworker. My children are on the spectrum and have ehc plans, with quite severe learning delays so we were given twice a week in January. I'd hope that Ds would be given more provision this time as he's off to secondary in September and he's so far behind and some do any work at home. Dd can cope somewhat at home! 😪

Judging by the dwindling numbers on the weekly Zoom assembly at the start of the year, about 90% by the time schools were open again!

My kids were in the minority staying at home too.

50%

In the first lockdown in March 2020 we had 11 children in school (out of 230). In January, we had around 18 per class

Around 50% attended.

10 % first lockdown
30% full time second and 20% part time (but not overlapping)

Our had 50 percent per class reason I never got the “just open with smaller classes/ social distancing) it’s basically what happened in the last lockdown with access to education decided by parental profession.

They limited it to 50%. They prioritised children with 2 key worker parents, then children with EHC/vulnerable children, then there were a few spaces left for children with one KW parent and they allocated those based on individual circumstances. My DS got one of those spaces.

Our whole school was 60%!!! Absolute joke. The main problem is we are close to two big universities and they designated all their staff key workers. Despite many of those staff working from home throughout. And we also had a lot of SAHPs with the other half working in medicine (we are near a huge hospital) sending their kids in. Many genuine key workers for sure but many piss takers.

Our actual class was not too bad about 12-15 out of 30 most days.

50%, but soon went up to around 80%.

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Many universities lent staff to testing labs etc. multiple labs in my experience were either seconded or switched research

Well over half. I lost an awful lot of respect for our SLT as they sent out letters confirming places were strictly for children of two keyworker parents but there were children in including one whose parent was on maternity leave at the time.

First lockdown my school of 500 children had 15 kids in. Second lockdown we were all in. Third lockdown my own class had one vulnerable child in, and one child who was vulnerable and has a mum who is a carer. Total across the school varied between 30 and 40 children. So, 10%.

My child's school of 180 kids had about 10 in during first lockdown. Third lockdown it varied between 20 and 30 across the week. Mostly teachers' children on the days they were in school.

14 out of 30. Not including mine, though. My DC were considered undeserving of school.

March 2020 my two went for one day before I was furloughed, there were only about 15 children in the whole school.

January- March 2021 DD attended a couple of days a week depending on my work rota (I was on flexi-furlough then) and there were around 130 so over half the school. The head was begging parents to consider whether they really needed to send their child.

DS had moved to secondary school by then and there were around 50 children I believe, out of over 1200- of course their ages mean lots could stay home without a parent anyway.

@gogohm - I’m talking every member of university staff from marketing to HR to librarians to facilities management.

I’m sure a few were directly involved in covid research and that’s fine, arguably lecturers too who can hardly deliver lectures with little kids running about. However I draw the line at Marketing managers like one of the school mums who had a lovely, restful lockdown.

20 out of 30 kids in the second lockdown 😒 my little was tearful everyday after the morning zoom, she couldn’t understand it at all. She was 5.

I’ll be fuming if it happens again. I can technically be considered a key worker even though I can WFH. I won’t be being so generous this time.

I can't accurately say but where I live does seem to have a lot of SAHMs and people who already had capacity to wfh so it didn't seem to be many on either occassion

2/3 of my daughter's class were in, she got very behind (reception year) but tbf to her teachers they did put in lots of one on one support for the 8 children in the class who had been at home remote learning

100%. Specialist provision.

Between 10-25 dc in the first lockdown - in the whole school of 210 pupils.

January lockdown we had 100 children in. Any in came in full time as that was easiest / gave best continuity & kept bubbles consistent.

I’m sure we would have even more in another school closure situation. Last time the governors had to produce a priority list for the places we had available and some people couldn’t get places.

I agree. Ours were in the minority staying at home. It was so annoying. Then all the people with tangentially key worker roles or the teachers were being really annoying about how school wasn't teaching properly. Made me .

It was annoying how many more children came back to school compared to the first lock down.

It's really shocking that such inequality is allowed.

About 50% of the school last Jan. Much much less the first time round because everything stopped so people were at home. That wasn't the case in Jan. Loads of parents from this school are in lowish paid jobs in care sector or essential retail (tesco etc). Also many of the main earners in families are not always keyworkers but unable to stay home (builders, tradesmen etc) and were off furlough and working last Jan. The school were trying to be strict about both parents being keyworkers but if you're on just above min wage doing care shifts and your husband is out at work as a scaffolder I'm not sure who is supposed to mind the kids? It's the same reason people don't test their kids - they can't afford to isolate.

None. School was completely closed so the odd child that really had to attend ended up being sent to a local 'hub' school.

50%, it varied between 40-70% in each year group.