Is anyone’s school affected by the Coronavirus?

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Ours isn’t, so all is good there.

I have a totally crazy and irrational jealousy of teachers that are being sent home for 14 days to self isolate after half term ski trips though.

Ridiculous, I know as it’s a killer. I think that shows how unhappy I am at work and how much I need to get out of teaching.

The drivers who live in your local area will be under the same quarantine restrictions. Even if the companies draft their staff in from other areas, there is an increased number of people placing orders in both areas, for obvious reasons.

I think, looking at a bigger picture as above, deliveries will still be available but with much longer waiting times and plenty of items out of stock. There will be knock on effects.

Of course you can have deliveries, you’d just need to ask them to leave stuff on the doorstep.

The Government and NHS coronavirus page say you should only call 111 and self-isolate if you’ve been to Northern Italy and develop symptoms.

That's right, Noble. This is what our school is basing its decision on.

Symptoms-wise, it's tricky as half the group contracted Norovirus from the hotel anyway (it was in the news 2 days before the visit as 40 children caught Noro, with some on drips).
And while Corona has different symptoms, I believe the Abels had also been vomitting.

We’ve now been told to send any students who have been to Italy in the last few weeks to see our business manager. And talk to the kids about hand washing. One of the schools closed near us says some staff and students who were on their Italy trip are showing flu-like symptoms

I've got quite a few friends in isolation in China at the moment and they are still able to get deliveries so I can't see why we wouldn't be able to here.... have to admit a self isolation sounds like a lot of fun right now! 🤦‍♀️

I have friends in Bergamo near Milan and their children's school is not even affected. Hilarious to think how excited we are getting in the UK at the idea of a shutdown.

Dd’s Secondary school sent a text today to say that 3 teachers have just returned from an area identified as ‘low risk’ and despite having no symptoms and being advised by the NHS that they could return to school, the school have asked them to self-isolate for 2 weeks!

The government is desperate for schools to stay open because if schools close, parents have to take time off work and then that’s a massive hit to the economy - who pays for two weeks isolation and who is left doing the work?

A local secondary has just returned from an Italian School trip. They've conforned it wasn't a locked down area and no one has symptoms, that they should self isolate if they do but that they have organised extra deep cleaning. Do you think they really have and if so, why? I thought the risk was from close contact with soneone with symptoms

Luckily my situation is that I would rather go to school than be in isolation (SLT are not dickheads). However, I wouldn’t see any problems with staying at home for 2 weeks as long as I had access to food. No way would I be bored or frustrated and quite happy to keep myself busy. Why do people think it would be so terrible to have to self isolate for a fortnight? On a personal level I mean, rather than on a society level?

My friend’s school has had a staff member sent home with ‘symptoms’ (a cold that everyone has more likely) after an Italian trip not to a lockdown region. They’re going to be swabbed and sent back in when cleared rather than get two weeks off I think.

How long does it take for a swab test result?

I've had to show the kids how to handwash, we've been given boxes of tissues rather than me having to buy my own, and the kids are getting anti bac hand gel before eating.
Both our feeder secondaries are sending kids that have been on the ski trips with symptoms home to self isolate. I think it's just a matter of time to be honest. The siblings of those kids are still coming here!

I wondered if we'd get paid if the school shut. I presume so, but i'd imagine we'd still be required to come in even if the kids are not!

I've just spent the evening looking at my year 6 data. Time off will NOT help that so I sincerely hope that in the event of closure for any school their eventual results will get the special consideration of several scale score points.

I work from home tutoring and teaching online. My Chinese students have been inside their apartments for 5 weeks now. Cabin fever is well and truly setting in and they are utterly fed up. They are delighted to see me each day so they can speak to someone different. I feel for them and their families and really hope things do not get to that point here. So no jealousy on my part .

Oh and the are rumours that this time off will count as their summer holidays ...

I can honestly say hand on heart that if any fecker takes any Corona time off of Summer Holidays the exodus from teaching will be so massive that there will be a lost generation!

If schools are closed to stop the spread of a virus then I won’t be trooping in to work in an empty school, I’ll be at home looking after my own kids!

I’ve seen some testy posts on twitter from Heads saying that they are inundated with calls from parents demanding to know why the school isn’t closed/deep-cleaned/well staff quarantined etc. Probably because no one has got coronavirus, I’d imagine.

I'm sure no one will be brave enough to tell teachers this leave would be unpaid or that it needs to come from their holidays but I expect there are numerous other categories of workers who wont be so fortunate.

We've had 4 emails from dad's school this week regarding the virus. I suspect most schools are being inundated with parental enquiries. She's at a large secondary (10 form entry) and there are 2 pupils self isolating after travel.

My Chinese students are having hours of online lessons every day, I wonder how many schools and families in the UK would be able to do this.

I’ve got a cough currently and some year 8s decided it was coronavirus.

We had 6 days off in Nov/Dec when lots of staff and students were off with norovirus. Can’t imagine the head allowing more days for a closure despite a couple of the closed schools being near.

I'm a parent not a teacher, but would anyone mind if I asked a question of you?I just posted this on another thread

"the "larger class sizes" (as well as making me roll my eyes right out of my head for the poor bloody teachers!) made me think about those of us with DCs in non mainstream settings, or with 1-2-1 support in mainstream. I suppose a lot of us would be Home Edding in those scenarios - it might be worth contacting schools/support services to plan re resources/topics coming up?"

I know my DC's support service/school have been brilliant in the past for sending work home in advance for planned absences like operations, and I have appreciated it. Obviously I don't want to add to teachers stress - how you would feel about a parent raising this at this stage?

I don't want to push anyone over the edge

We have posters up form the NHS but the actual full guidance for schools doesn't seem to have filtered through. This includes telling students not to share bottles and rinks (which they always do and I find it bloody weird) and, more likely to happen, they should not be borrowing or sharing pens and pencils!

I think you’d have to trust schools which had no option but to close to do as much on-line teacher and support as possible (as long as teachers were healthy).

Most of our local secondaries had ski trips to Italy over the half term just gone - and now two of the schools on the combined trip have pupils self-isolating after showing symptoms. Naturally the local social media rumour mill (always a bastion of calm, measured sanity) is now in overdrive and there's a lot of people mouthing off about keeping their kids off for the next century.

I'm worried as both my kids have a history of lung problems - one was very very ill with pneumonia (we nearly lost her) and the other was premature so there's always this question mark over her lungs and she's had hospital admissions for breathing difficulties too - but at the moment it's plodding on as normal. If the schools start having to double up classes or whatever I'll probably keep them at home and cover the work myself just because I don't think they're going to get any actual content into their heads in a class of 40+ anyway (I know roughly where they're up to in things like Maths this term anyway - I know the Maths they follow - so I could do a tolerable job of picking up and keeping going).

telling students not to share bottles

I’ve not seen any guidance like this at all. My kids’ primary school has told them to wash their hands and stay at home if they’ve been to the affected regions. The secondary I work for has sent some kids and teachers from the Italian ski trip home and has emailed parents about self isolation but I’ve not seen them do anything else.

Doubling up classes - er, where would that be? My room can’t fit two classes in.

Oh and there’s literally no way I could be doing online lessons from home. Wouldn’t have the first idea where to start with that. I could set the kids some mymaths/mathswatch and that’s about it.