School bubble vs Holiday - loosing my nerve

[YellowDucki]

Evening all, looking for some reasonable advise please - COVID/school bubble related, sorry if I’m one of many posting about this! DH is eternally Mr Positive so struggling to have a rational conversation with him.

DS (7 Yr2) attends a very small village school. So far, we have avoided any (touch wood) bubble related isolations. Every school surrounding us has one, if not more year groups out of school isolating and I can’t help thinking our luck is about to run out. DS has 1.5 days of school left and we have a 2 week holiday in Wales arranged for Sat.

I can’t help thinking that these 1.5 days in school aren’t worth the risk of potentially having to isolate and missing out on our holiday. DS (& myself) will be disappointed to miss out on the last day but nothing compared to missing out on our holiday. We go to the same place every year and my parents are all ready there preparing for our arrival. It feels like we are in touching distance now, I just want to get there but feel like I am loosing my nerve with the risk.

So, should I send him to school, hope for the best and have anxiety through the roof for the week.
Or, should I keep him off school and go into hibernation just so we can have our family holiday.

To complete the picture, I also have a DD (4) who finished preschool on Friday and another DS (10 months).

I rarely say this but I would keep him off . In fact if your parents are there already could you not join them early.

I'd go into hibernation OP, from someone who is isolating because my class bubble burst last week!!

Take him out.
No brainer.

Primary school teacher here. Keep him off. Enjoy your holiday and the stress free anticipation of it. He's not missing anything. Have a lovely time.

I would never normally take children out of school but in these circumstances, I would (and I'll be doing the same with my DD this week).

Year two. Keep him off!
Enjoy your holiday.

Am I right in thinking though, that from tomorrow, if there is a +ve case, the bubble doesn't automatically close, and thus your child wouldn't have to isolate?

I'm sure that from the 19th its all just down to track and trace and not bubbles closing that automates isolation.

Maybe I've mis understood though.

I was intending to do this, I got an email today to tell her to isolate..,,,,

Thank you for your replies! I needed to hear I wasn’t being irrational. We strive for 100% attendance but after this year…!

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Am I right in thinking though, that from tomorrow, if there is a +ve case, the bubble doesn't automatically close, and thus your child wouldn't have to isolate?

I'm sure that from the 19th its all just down to track and trace and not bubbles closing that automates isolation.

Maybe I've mis understood though.

I believe this change comes in from mid- August? After more people are double vaccinated. Confusing as other rules change from Monday.

Lots of Covid in Wales at the moment….

Plenty of covid in Wales.

I'd definitely be tempted to do what you're thinking, OP. My class haven't had to isolate all year. We finished on Friday and I got the call today to say one tested positive and we all have to now isolate until Sat 24th.

Gutted.

Bubbles Definitely 'going' tomorrow. Though most schools keeping them for the last few days of term.

But I honestly don't know what happens if there is a positive case once bubbles are gone.

We are going away Friday, if my son's bubble closes, we will still go. Unless it's one of the two people he sits beside. I'd take a PCR test and go anyway provided the PCR was negative. I would stick to outdoor things but our kids have missed enough. I personally want my kid to have his last few days at school and his holiday.

Take him out. They're not doing anything anyway.

Definitely take him out. I’m living in fear of my bubble
popping this week!

My DDs school broke up two Fridays ago. On the Monday after she was told to self isolate but at that point we were already away.

We had a big garden and did daily lateral flow tests for all of us. We had thankfully stocked up when we arrived. Husband and I took it in turns to go out with the youngest one. It was rather rubbish for my eldest daughter who remained at the house and tested negative throughout though.

Just a warning that you can be told to isolate days after actually being in the vicinity of someone who tests positive.

Take him out. 100%

I’m having a similar quandary and remain undecided. I’m really confused about what new rules from tomorrow will mean too?

I rarely say it, but at the moment I would entirely understand any parent who chose to keep their children off this week.

Another Primary Teacher here who says keep him off! I’ve just finished my fifth isolation recently, I don’t want to go in this week as I just have a bad feeling that I’ll end up isolating again.

Keep him off, it really doesn’t matter. I wouldn’t give it another thought.

Keep him off. Our bubble burst and we missed a weekend break in this lovely weather

Definitely keep him off, it’s not worth the risk of spoiling your holiday. Have a lovely time!

Yeah, mine finish Tuesday officially but I'm keeping them off. Not worth stressing about

I think I’ve decided to keep my child out for this last week (in reception - they are just doing “fun” things) to safeguard being able to travel to see family we’ve not been able to visit for 2 years. Thanks for this thread. Has helped me make a decision!