Whole yeargroup rolling closures (secondary)

[Hamjamwich]

Staff sickness means school are keeping one yeargroup a day at home (except y11) is this happening in other schools?

Not where we are

Not yet, we were warnd in Dec that it might but then cases levelled off a bit. Still major major staff and pupil absence problems tho.

It is dreadful what is happening in schools, the government is just useless on this issue!

Escaped it, but there was a contingency plan to keep years 11 and 13 in come what may, with other year groups off-site

It's happening in a few schools I think, yes. And will go on happening unless the government actually allow schools to protect students and staff against covid.....

Yip!
DD is 'learning at home' tomorrow.

Our whole large secondary was closed last week due to staff having covid

We had y8 closed for 3 days last week, y9 is closed for 3 days this week. We were warned at the beginning term that this might happen, they are aiming to prioritize exam years to stay in school.

Currently have DC at home with Covid. I haven't come across the situation being discussed on the news. Maybe they want it to sweep through schools

Yep two year groups off for rest of week - again

@JanglyBeads

It's happening in a few schools I think, yes. And will go on happening unless the government actually allow schools to protect students and staff against covid.....

Or drops isolation of positive cases

Vickyc90 why would dropping isolation help? If teachers are sick they can’t teach or are you wanting ill people to come in?

No, before Christmas there were a few year groups that had to be supervised in hall or gym by a cover or TA but none were sent home. There were some subjects teacher was teaching the class via zoom from home with TA supervising the class as well.

7 8 and 9 home schooling for a week

Our school has years 7, 8 and 9 in in the morning and 10, 11, 12 and 13 in the afternoon. The other half of the day they’re learning online at home.

Yes, rolling here. Some of the teachers are very poorly.

Not here no

Not here but intrigued by this. Rolling closures sound a much “fairer” way to spread the impact on education but wondering how it actually works in terms of stopping transmission and work being set for the right years etc.

Yes, happening where I work. Just not enough staff to keep everyone in. I don’t think dropping isolation would help as staff are actually Ill.

@Somebodylikeyew

Not here but intrigued by this. Rolling closures sound a much “fairer” way to spread the impact on education but wondering how it actually works in terms of stopping transmission and work being set for the right years etc.

It's not to prevent transmission.

It's because so many staff have it (or are unvaccinated and required to isolate) that they cannot safely open the school to all pupils and conduct lessons.

My son is now home learning until next week, partly cases in his year partly staffing issues.

It's not really to do with stopping transmission, it's about not enough adults in the building to keep everyone safely supervised.

Yes, we had to send year 8, 9 and 10 home for a week each before Christmas and it's getting close to that again.

Stopping isolation won't help (much) as most of the teachers are too sick to be in; they're not just sitting at home bored (maybe two throughout the whole pandemic would have been well enough to come in).

Yes, this is starting this week in our secondary school. One day a week learning from home as they don’t have enough staff to cover absences.

No closures here

Goodness no! School in London. We must be very lucky so far. There was a rush of Covid in September/October that burnt through the school. But otherwise this term seems ok🤞🏻