What is next week looking like for you?

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Are you on a rota to childminder key workers’ children, in full time or teaching from home?

We are all in from Monday-seem to have a lot of key workers at our school!

I'm a TA in our village infant school. All staff (inc office staff & caretaker) have been put onto a rota... 6 teams of 3 or 4 staff members. Each day is split into 3 shifts and each team is working a different shift - ie 3 teams in this week, the other 3 teams are off this week & then we swoop next week. I'm in 3-6 this week coming

A colleague pisted this on our schhol WhatsApp group

This is a message from an NHS anaesthetist.

Just a bit of advice for you teacher hero’s that you may want to pass on to your friends/colleagues/staff.

Latest evidence is you are less likely to catch virus from a child coughing but more from things they touch. They are likely to be entirely asymptomatic. So unfortunately virus likely to be all over surfaces. It can also live on skin/hair/clothes. Those with long hair - Tie it up. Think about taking off engagement rings/other jewellery.

This is what we do to decontaminate.

If you are doing a shift at school, as soon as you get in, have a black bin liner ready just inside front door or back door and ensure your washing machine door is open. People can help you get this ready but should stay away during procedure.

Take off your clothes 😳🥴and place them all inside bin liner. Take bin liner straight to washing machine. Scrunch clothes into a ball. Do not touch ANY part of washing machine. Door should already be open. Carefully place clothes inside washing machine making sure you do not touch sides.

Go straight to shower. Do not touch door handles and if you have to, ensure they are wiped down after. Wash your body and HAIR thoroughly with soap/shampoo/shower gel.

You should now be virus free. You can go and shut washing machine and put it on.

Cell membranes of this virus are weak so all it takes is soap and water to kill it.

This is a message from an NHS anaesthetist.

Do we have a proper source? I don’t mean to sound sceptical, but there was that whole ‘my cousin is a surgeon for the NHS and reckons petrol pumps are what’s giving it to people’ thing which has made me wary.

I agree Noble.

I'm just passing on what was shared with me. I don't know my colleague's source.

It might be over cautious, but as there's nothing in there that seems harmful, I thought I'd share it.

It's completely up to fellow mumsnetters if they want to follow everything, cherry pick the bits that seem practical or ignore it altogether.

I get that, 1066, and people want to be helpful, which is a good thing.

But we also need to look at what’s sustainable, healthy, and evidence-based so that people don’t need to worry unnecessarily.

For example - if a pupil is touching surfaces, we know that if we touch them and then touch our face, that’s not good so we should disinfect commonly touched surfaces more often, and wash our hands regularly.

But are my trousers really likely to be covered in virus? I’m not rolling around on surfaces that have been touched by kids so I think not.

NHS workers are more likely to be around people who are coughing and so do need to worry about their clothes. This makes me think that a post saying that we need to be less worried about coughs, more worried about surfaces and thus worried about our clothes is not best practice.

I doubt that people who work in supermarkets are washing their work clothes every day the minute they get in.

@noblegiraffe I totally agree that a good cleaning regime at school, washing our hands more often than normal and not touching our faces are the most important thing - although I'm really struggling with the last one!

As far as our clothes are concerned, it probably depends on what age we teach. I'm sure secondary school children don't want to get anywhere near their teacher so as long as you don't sit on their desks your clothes should be fine. At the other end of the age range, children in nurseries and school Foundation classes are far more tactile. They're quite likely to pull at teacher's clothes with their grubby little hands.(Makes me glad that I've moved to KS2!)

I've been told I can stay at home (vulnerable household), and I've set work for students for tomorrow although compulsory work doesn't start until Tuesday.
Tomorrow I need to make up work packs and email them in for those students who can't access the internet. They should be printed off for collection on Tuesday, but who's going to do it, I'm not sure.
I've also emailed in spreadsheets of all of my year 11 mock results so they can be used to help form a prediction for gcse grades.
From tomorrow onwards, I'm hoping to be given work I can do remotely so I can help as much as I can. (I have a TLR, but I'm not sure I can fulfil all of it under the current restrictions.)

I’m slightly sceptical about the source of that advice because of the last line- viruses don’t have cell membranes

I’ve had this sent by a friend which seems sensible
reflectionsinscience.wordpress.com/2020/03/20/creating-a-safe-space-for-the-children-of-key-workers-a-covid-19-monitoring-protocol/

We are due to have 100 kids in today