Schools back in September - full classes - will it work?

[mids2019]

So the government have announced class bubbles wil! increase from 15 to 30 to allow schools to return to something resembling normality in September.

Do you feel this is ambitious given that although infection rates are declining rapidly there will be some disease presence in the autumn and social distancing in the classroom has been effectively ruled out by this plan?

Although everyone wants their children back in school are we going to face a situation similar to the government 's previous school reopening announcement for reception, year 1 and year 6 where there was an announcement without consultation and difficulties then arose?

Frankly the answer is that we do not know and that there has not been any official announcement yet.
It is a fact that if schools are to take all pupils in from September then the only logical way is to go back to the pre-March scenario as there is not enough classrooms or staff to work on a 15 pupil class situation.
As such it feels that we are going to have to accept that there will be a level of virus infection and that means that at a local level there will be self-isolation where parts or all of schools shut for 14 days. Having said that there is no guarantee that any virus infection at a school has actually come from those in the school, it is as likely to have come from outside the school.