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School bubble vs Holiday - loosing my nerve

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YellowDucki · 17/07/2021 22:44

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).

OP posts:

Pl242 · 18/07/2021 16:55

Anyone know if we risk being fined if we tell school that we won’t send child in this week re covid worries?

LolaSmiles · 18/07/2021 19:12

Pl242
If they're 'ill' then it will be recorded as an I mark in the register. Unless a child has poor attendance (under 90% which is the equivalent of a day off a fortnight for the year) then it's unlikely anything would happen. The only situations I'm aware of in my school where court and fines are involved are for long term attendance problems.

Bobholll · 18/07/2021 19:34

100% keep them off. I’ve got friends who pulled them out 10 days before the end of term!

Don’t think it won’t happen. My DD was off nursery with tonsillitis the week before we went away. Her bubble burst on the Thursday & we got a call at 6pm on Thursday evening to say, had she been in nursery that week, we would have had to isolate. We were off on holiday the next morning! We dodged a bullet big time!

Northernlurker · 18/07/2021 19:42

I'm keeping mine off all week. My mental health isn't up to sending her in and waiting for the call tbh.

Yellowmellow2 · 18/07/2021 19:49

@QuizzicalTikTok

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.

You are right. Track and trace responsibility passes from the school to NHS T and T from midnight tonight. They will only contact those who have had direct contact, who have to isolate, so it won’t automatically be a bubble closure if there’s a positive case. This is different to the August change, when under 18s no longer have to isolate.

The track and trace change has not been widely publicised for some reason.

QuizzicalTikTok · 18/07/2021 23:06

I have sort of assumed, however, that track and trace would say that everyone in the class is a close contact and thus has to isolate. So no different at all, despite the headlines.

It does not put us in a good position with summer camps. I am relying on these for work over the summer holidays and I'm just waiting for my two to be 'pinged' within days of starting and missing the two precious weeks I've paid for and desperately need so I can work.

These poor kids should not be having to isolate over the summer. It's all so unfair.

Yellowmellow2 · 19/07/2021 06:12

It is unfair. I get the impression though, that NHS Track and Trace won’t automatically close whole bubbles. That’s the whole reason for the change, because so many kids were missing school unnecessarily. Nobody quite knows for sure though. Another car crash week ahead for those of us in education…..

Angel2702 · 19/07/2021 06:17

@QuizzicalTikTok

I have sort of assumed, however, that track and trace would say that everyone in the class is a close contact and thus has to isolate. So no different at all, despite the headlines.

These poor kids should not be having to isolate over the summer. It's all so unfair.

I thought the guidelines I saw on here a few days ago said track and trace will only be looking for contacts children have been in contact with socially rather than just in a classroom with?

0None0 · 19/07/2021 06:20

Secondary teacher here. Please keep your children off if you can.

Everyone needs quality family time. So much more important than the last days of school.

My sisters children , both of them, in 2 different year groups, hit the instruction to isolate over the weekend. Family holiday cancelled I’d warned her to keep them off last week. Very few times in her life she is now saying she wished she’d listened to me

cheeseismydownfall · 19/07/2021 07:31

Having had three school age children get all this way without a single bubble bursting, we got an email over the weekend and one DC is now isolating until Saturday.

It was their last week at primary so I wouldn't have deliberately kept them off as of course they didn't want to miss it, but for any other year I would have definitely considered it.

saraclara · 19/07/2021 07:35

Keep him off.

My daughter and her partner are teachers and I wish I could keep them off! The chances of them being able to take their own holiday that they so desperately need are reducing by the minute. Especially as her partners school doesn't break up for another ten days!

uktrippin · 19/07/2021 07:52

"NHS Track and Trace"

Royal Mail track and trace. Nhs test and trace.

TakeTheWheel · 19/07/2021 08:29

Royal Mail track and trace. Nhs test and trace.

NoGoodOptions · 20/07/2021 11:56

I'm keeping mine off this week. They'll miss the last 3.5 days of school, but there have been 4 confirmed cases in reception, nursery, and year 2 in the past 3 weeks. I just can't hold my nerve. I'm hopeful that the bubbles in summer camps will be smaller and that the testing regime will not be as strict. I also need the camps as I work full time.

Confusedmum11plus21 · 20/07/2021 21:48

Hi,
We didnt let our dd missed her school before holidays inspite of flight booked this weekend. But now received message from her school that she need to isolate for 10days. So, now holidays cut short and more expensive ticket for rescheduling for new dates. So, It might be convenient to skip last days than the inconvenience faced by us..

Pl242 · 20/07/2021 22:05

Oh that sucks. So sorry.

DolphinFC · 21/07/2021 14:02

No brainer!

I'm a teacher, I called in sick for the last few days. No way am I risking my holiday!

LadyCatStark · 21/07/2021 14:05

Finish now, almost all other schools have anyway!

Yellowmellow2 · 01/08/2021 14:35

@DolphinFC

No brainer!

I'm a teacher, I called in sick for the last few days. No way am I risking my holiday!

Wow. I wouldn’t ever do that as a teacher.

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