Positive case at school today, what to expect?

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If this happened at your school I’d be grateful to hear how it went. Not sure if it’s really a Scotland-specific question but it feels sensible to try here first.

We got a text about an hour ago. It says the school has its first confirmed learner case and they’ll “be in touch with families concerned shortly”.

I’m wondering what “shortly” means, and how long needs to pass before we can assume they aren’t going to contact our family specifically.

Or maybe another general message will come? Will they tell us which class is affected, even if it’s not our dc’s class?

It’s a secondary btw

We had our first confirmed case a couple of days ago.
The school emailed saying the child’s bubble were being sent home for 2 weeks.

The following day, a confirmed case with a teacher in the same year group. The entire year group has now been sent home to isolate.

Also a secondary..

Wondering if this is our school - we also got a text.

Thanks Witch

Actually thinking about whether to just keep DS home now until October break (which is another week away for us) — even if we don’t get a message saying he needs to isolate.

I’m a bit anxious because of my own borderline clinical vulnerability and lack of confidence in the safety and hygiene measures at school (not their fault, staff are great, my concern is with the infrastructure, crowding, poor ventilation and so on).

I’m in Edinburgh, OOAOML

Neighbours (both GPs) had to self isolate for 2 weeks when their older ds was in a class where someone tested positive.

Both sons at secondary school.

Yes Edinburgh. Also not sure about hygiene at school but aware how hard it must be. DD tells me lots are not following the one way systems and the hand sanitiser runs out (I send mine in with their own). I know quite a few have been tested so it was really just a matter of time.

Did they switch to online learning @Witchgonebad

We're in Glasgow BTW.

....the self isolation fortnight finishes today and their younger ds is pissed off that he's being "made" to go to school tomorrow for a single day before stopping for the October Week

in ours there were around 50 kids tracked and traced through both what the 2 pupils said were their close contacts (2 original pupils unrelated and in different years but tested positive the same day) and through looking at class seating plans, etc. think everyone asked to self-isolate was contacted within about 4-6 hours of the original advisory email to all parents.

Our ds secondary school has now had 4 confirmed cases. 1 yr 7, 1 yr 9, and a yr8 and their sibling in yr 10. Their respective forms have been sent home for 10 days.
Our dd primary has just had 1 confirmed case in a yr5 child. The whole year group have been sent home for 10 days.

Our children are still attending as they are not in the relevant classes, but we have spoken to them both about importance of hand washing, sanitizer and keeping distance where they can.

Ah thank you Sturm. I’m sitting here stressing at the silence but it’s only been a couple of hours. Makes sense that it maybe just takes a bit longer.

I wish it was a bit clearer how big the bubbles are in a given school, and what precisely it would take for a whole bubble to be sent home. I understand these things are difficult to pin down though.

We had 1 case at our secondary school on Monday and this has increased daily with more having to self isolate. I kept my dc off yesterday to try to avoid this as we’re meant to be going away but was too late -got an email last night saying one of them has to isolate.

We had a positive case a last month. The school told us close contacts (children who sat near them in class seating plans/friends) had been told and were isolating too. It all happened very quickly/that day.

We found out that night via local facebook group and parents of children who were close contact/isolating the year group was S2 (ds is S5).

Everyone had emailed a letter from PHS, copies in this thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/scotsnet/4012277-Anyone-else-with-a-Covid-case-in-their-school?msgid=100070394

We got an email around a week later to say all close contacts had since had a test and all were negative. The close contact continued to isolate for the full two weeks.

No cases since.

Had exactly the same text yesterday. Transpires it's a child in S6 who is in my son's registration group.

School identified the classes the child is in. Then looked at their seating plans for those classes and sent home just the children who had been within 2 metres of the case. My son is in one class with the positive case but has not been told to isolate as they sit on opposite sides of the room.

They certainly haven't sent home all of S6 to isolate.

I have a text from the school saying to check emails but no email. My daughter says it's someone in her year.

Depends on the set up and whether they have seating plans etc. Half of my son's year had to isolate (including him) as that half of the year mix for lessons. He's back now. My daughter's whole class got sent home as they're primary and so mix throughout the day but the other class in the year stayed at schools. They are increasingly doing very close contacts only. Both our cases were a few weeks ago now.

Our school has had 2 cases. No year groups closed. Since they seat the kids according to a plan, the kids who'd been sitting by those testing positive had to isolate for 2 weeks.

I’ve had the email now: it says the tracing process is complete and if we haven’t been contacted, we don’t need to do anything.

Which, good, but ... I don’t feel like that’s enough information tbh :/

What’s the point of not telling us at least which year group it was? We will all obviously be hearing things from the grapevine of children anyway (and their information might not be accurate).

Did you get an update text OP? If it is the same school they have identified close contacts. Suppose just wait to see if any more.

My daughter says it's her year so presume by home time info will be all through the school. We have no email but the school office are in my experience not the best.

I’ve sent you PM, OO, but please don’t worry if you don’t feel comfortable replying (privacy concerns etc. totally valid on here)

No problem!