Coronavirus plans for September

[HappyCake1234]

What are the plans for you’re school regarding social distancing and bubbles etc.

We've had emails from school.
It's a smaller than average Academy with about 120 students per year, undersubscribed by about 30% I would say.
They are doing:
Year group bubbles, staggered start/finish times, separate entrance/exit. Each year group has a section of the school and a staircase each, they are one way.
Students will be put in forms based on their science sets and will primarily remain in the same classroom. There will be some movement for key stage 4 based on their options. The plan is for 3 x 100 minute lessons (instead of 5 x 1 hour) with a break in between to allow for teacher movement and prep (and break/lunch for students). They have also been allocated a specific area outside for breaks. Year 11s will have an extra 45 minute lesson at the end of the day.

Our comp (yr7-11 only ~240 per year) hasn't published plans yet.

It has told us it has a number of options dependent on government guidance at the start of term, but as things change so much it didn't see the point publishing mid July.

KS3 will be taught in class groups (as in primary school) so their class group becomes their bubble.

This is impossible in KS4 due to options so larger proportions of the year group (243 in DD's case) is a "bubble", although the school is shuffling option groups to minimise the number of other children an individual comes into contact with (don't envy them this).

Teachers have a marked out 2m area at the front they stay within.
Teachers are timetabled to limit the number of bubbles they move between.
Children sit in desks in line facing the front (no social distancing between children).

Staggered start and end times.
Staggered break and lunch times.
Areas set aside for each individual year groups for break times.
One ways systems in corridors.
Lots of handwashing.

They are doing everything they can, I think. The reality is, to get the whole school back is just a lot of people all in one place!

Year group bubbles, no child to go within 2 metres of a teacher and they have to eat standing up. Lots more that I cannot remember

Small school

Each year group assigned to a zone, and have lessons in that area (except specialist lessons).

Teachers move to the students

Staggered lunch and break times.

Limited hand washing facilities, but lots of hand gel.

Students supposed to stay away from teachers, but I don't see that working.

My biggest concern is that in a rough school, kids find it funny to cough in teacher's faces saying they've got Corona. Only had year 10 back so far, and it's already happened.