Welsh schools part-time from September

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The Welsh government is planning to continue the current 1-day-a-week part-time "blended" learning in schools in September.

Please sign this government petition to open schools normally and scrap "blended" learning: petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/200136

Signed!

@ElectronicFur where do you get the one day a week from?
I'm not doubting you at all, but I've not seen it confirmed anywhere.
I've signed the petition

This document from Estyn and co-authored by the various Welsh Local Authorities Education Services. bit.ly/38axmot

The document says "The requirements of social distancing point to bubbles with a single class base and staff moving." and "Learners could come in for two half rather than full days".

The 2m social distancing determines that. Teachers have told me that is why they can only do 1-day-a-week at the moment. Unless they scrap social distancing.

Unfortunately that looks unlikely, as the First Minister on Friday stated blended learning would happen in September:

"" ... we will still have Coronavirus in circulation in Wales in September, unless things go far better than anybody is currently predicting.

So there will be some aspects of blended learning, learning in school and learning at home, at the start of the new school term."

You can see the full Q&A with the First Minister at this link www.pscp.tv/w/1nAKEAlbnEXKL

Education section starts at 17min:25s

Signed.

The impact on my DCs education and mental health had outweighs the risk to their exposure to COVID.

This is shocking. Really shocking

I wonder if WAG will allow the Rising 3 funding to be used elsewhere as schools are clearly not willing / able to provide it come September?
As well as DCs education, obviously number one priority, this is going to have a devastating impact on our working lives. It's impossible to commit to be decent employees when we've no idea of our children will be in school.

HALLELUJAH!!!!!!

You seen the news? They're all going back full time. I could cry with happiness!

Me too!!!

By the time they go back our children would have been out of school for SIX months!!!

Actually, can anyone advise on something?

My DH and I are both non-Welsh speaking. I'm worried that my youngest DSD aged 5 will really struggle to catch up with her Welsh (she goes to a fully Welsh speaking school). She's already slow in her English.

Will she catch up soon enough?

Coronavirus: All pupils in Wales 'back in school full-time' in September www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53349005

@FTstepmum. Am really curious. Why would you want a child from an English only household to go to an immersive Welsh school? It seems a significant extra barrier to learning, and means that you can't interact with their written product at all. Not carping - genuinely curious

We live in a very (almost fiercely) Welsh part of north Wales where there's no choice. Every single word spoken in the schools round here is Welsh.

I only moved here a year ago, from England when I married my DH - and I now raise my four step-children with him.

Home-schooling has been horrendous, as you can imagine. Hence my delight at school return!

I do worry about my little DSD falling behind, especially.

Ah, I see. And yes, homeschool must be v hard with four