Threshold for class going online?

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Hello, does anyone know what % of a class need to have CoVid before a class is considered for online learning?
3 in DC's class out of 29 currently positive. I'm interested because I'm CV.

I don’t think there is if they have the staff? A friend’s class had only 5 of them in at one point but they kept going.

I think it's just when nobody is available to teach. That's anecdotal though.

Her teacher is positive, but TA has taken over.

and sorry OP. Its extra stressful for CV/CEV families.

We have one class with 18 out of 30 positive. Rest still in school. As long as there is a warm body in front of them nothing will happen.

I had 8 in my class of 21 kids in november. I have another 5 now. Remained in class teaching. Would only go online if I got it and no staff to cover which is very unlikely

Oh gosh, ok thanks. Good to know. 🙈

There is no threshold. Before December, we had to report a break out if 5 children were positive. The children all had to be taken home and tested and could return as long as they were negative. This has now gone. Schools are doing everything they can to staff classes (as a pp said, just putting a warm body in front of the children.) Only if this is not possible will the class close.

We closed our class with 18/30 infections last week. All happened within 3 days so local authority decided was prudent

We have classes with up to 5 kids out at the moment. As pps have said, as long as we have a body to put at the front of the class, we are still open. Even if the teacher is out and the only body is a CV TA. Doesn't help when children are sent to school clearly unwell and the parent/carer refuses to collect their unwell child until after lunch. One of the reasons we fared so well last year was because kids stayed home with every little sniffle. This year, parents think it's all back to normal and so are sending their unwell children to school to pass it around.

In our school it is dependant on wether we have enough staff to keep the class open. Before Christmas one class had 16 isolating at one point but class stayed open. Currently have all the teachers in one year group out but a mix of TAs and supplies is allowing kids to be in.

Really feel for the teachers. Even HCPs don't have this much exposure!

When the teacher has it and there's no one to replace them

In our biggest outbreak in the autumn we had to stay open until we didn’t have enough staff to safely open. We had enough bodies to supervise students in school and key people like the safeguarding leads were working from home so we didn’t get to that point.

DD had 25/30 out one week. School was hybrid. Tasks set online for those at home and in person in school.

Our school closed a class this week at a threshold of more than 40% of the class off with it. That was described as at the request of the council’s public health team. The school has been hit hard in the last two weeks, but that class is the only one shut.

We had the 1:1 LSA taking the classes at our school when the teacher and TA were off with COVID.
At my children’s school they had the kids in the school gym supervised by office staff.
The classes won’t close.

Only if there is no teacher! We have over half the class off and the other half still in (a relief as they have missed so much the last thing they need is more closures!)

My DD's had 17 off and 14 at school and never closed or went online.

PPs are right as long as there is an adult to put in front of the children the class will stay open. Classes can be combined and staff can cross from one infected class to another to teach them thus spreading covid across an even bigger group of people. This is all allowed due to the DfE guidance.

They should redeploy people from Ofsted and the DfE who are qualified teachers back into the classroom to teach but fat chance of that happening.

I work in an office, not from home, so it would be a pain if DCs class closed, but from an education point of view, I'd rather her be taught online for a week from her curriculum by her teacher than being supervised by office staff just for the sake of being in school!