How many children are there currently in your primary classrooms?

[oldwhyno]

Parents/Carers/Staff etc, what is the maximum number of R, Y1, Y6 children that you are currently fitting into classrooms that would have originally held 30ish?

Is the school fitting the maximum bubble of 15 into one room, accepting that it isn't possible to spread desks out 2m?

Or are they sticking to 2m for desks and only fitting 8/9 in a room?

Thanks!

My Yr6 DS has a maximum of 15 in his classroom, we have been told they are following 1metre distancing in the classroom and generally within their bubble. 2 metres with any other bubble. In reality from what he has told me there is actually very little distancing going in at all within his bubble.

We have our year 6s spread out so that when they are sitting at their desks there is 2m between them, but there is not 2m between each desk.

We're abroad and all of our year groups are back in school - primary classes full time. At the moment, I have 22 out of 25 back but have sprwd them out over two classrooms. They can move between the rooms and there's no requirement for social distancing within the group. We still wipe down all shared equipment after use and the children are meant to avoid any physical contact with both adults and other children. We are separate from the other classes in the school and it's a bit like we have our own little school. We have a separate entrance, separate toilets, separate breaktimes, teachers have to stay with their respective groups, so our subject teachers have been allocated to one of the classes and stay with them. The kids still have allocated seats and aren't meant to move seats but we can put them at a table with others. We have lunch in the classrooms and it's being served by the teachers (we used to have group tables and big bowls of food in the middle with everyone serving themselves).
My class love being back. They love seeing their friends. We do spend most of the day outdoors, though. We've got a huge playground and field and tend to spend our lunch playtime by a small river close to school where they just play in the water.

We have 13 out of 15 year 1s in. Tables are not 2m apart but are in rows. If we had done 2m it would have been bubbles of 8. To be honest it has worked with that distancing. We have all had separate playtimes and lunch times in classrooms. This I think will continue in September but with class sized bubbles. It will be strange because toilets are shared with other classrooms so that will be difficult to manage.

I can't wait to be back in a normal classroom situation. I just hope to goodness things don't get bad again.

15 children. The tables are spread out but the children are not 2m apart indoors as some are sitting each end of an oblong shaped table so approx 1m apart. If social distancing is still required in September to 1m this is the maximum we can fit in the class.

Approx 10 max

Our school has only taken back reception and keyworkers as they are working to the 2m 'guidance'. So a max of 8 in each class with a teacher and a t.a. It makes no sense at all as they then all play together with no distancing at all. We're lucky to be keyworkers so have a space, but I feel desperately sorry for the other yr 1 & 6 children missing out.

Each bubble has 15 children allocated in our school. However they are not always all in every day. It's normally at least 10 though.
But we can't put other children in as can't mix bubbles, etc.

15 kids, 2 adults, lots of cleaning.

Is this because the DFE guidance is really ambiguous

Very much so.

One paragraph says that we should stick to 2m social distancing.
Another says that it is accepted that young children may not be able to socially distance.

If we stick totally to 2m we can fit about 8 per class so we are already over that. 1m would push it to about 15-16 or so.

And then apparently yet another version (number of changes and updates is already in triple numbers) arrived yesterday so who knows what that says.

Even with full bubbles we can only take KW and vulnerable children. We are full and can't offer places behind those two groups. We have a lot of Kw parents. If any more decide they need a place before the end of term they have to apply for emergency Lea childcare now sadly.

Around 8-12 per class.

DS (6) is in a group of 5 children for the days he is back to school in July.

@Aragog

Even with full bubbles we can only take KW and vulnerable children. We are full and can't offer places behind those two groups. We have a lot of Kw parents. If any more decide they need a place before the end of term they have to apply for emergency Lea childcare now sadly.

Wow, how many classrooms/bubbles do you have- is that 15 children in each year group and one classroom per bubble? Is it one form entry, so seven classrooms and all being used by key worker/vulnerable children? We have a lot of key worker children -close to several hospitals- but even when added to the vulnerable children we don't have anywhere near half of the school in that group.

We are infants only and a 3 form entry but yes, we have full bubbles of kw and vulnerable.

I don't really know why so many really, as our vulnerable numbers aren't overly high but the KW ones are.