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When the stats about who’s turned up to school tomorrow are submitted...

76 replies

fedup21 · 22/03/2020 23:31

Do we think anyone will look closely at them? Will the figures be released to Joe public?

I would really like to know if it’s 10%?

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teaandajammydodger · 23/03/2020 06:01

These figures are going to be closely scrutinised from what I gather.

BluePheasant · 23/03/2020 06:03

What about nurseries?

I know of at least two families sending their child in today as one parent a key worker yet the other is now wfh. I haven't said anything to them but it's not sitting well with me at all.

897654321abcvrufhfgg · 23/03/2020 06:06

If it’s too high it will become 2 keyworkers I think. Our school has 98/700 attending

waterbottle12 · 23/03/2020 06:15

Small y3-6 school of about 250 kids, under 20 going in

crazycatgal · 23/03/2020 06:59

We've already been given a list of who should be turning up and it amounts to 20% of our pupils.

VivaLeBeaver · 23/03/2020 07:03

SILs school Figure was initially 50%. They moved to a “2 key worker parent” rule which got it down significantly. They then rang each family and explained quite bluntly about only using it if necessary, etc and have reduced it even further.

DoubleAction · 23/03/2020 07:03

I don't think it will be as many as schools believe atm. When the news about key workers and vulnerable children first came out, it was communicated as if they had to go to school. I know several parents of children with ECHPs who thought they were told their children must go to school when they wanted to keep them at home.

Over the weekend (or after 3pm Fri) the message has become clearer and lots of people who originally said their children would be going in now aren't planning to send them.

Myfriendanxiety · 23/03/2020 07:04

We’ve got 5% of kids in, but we are a secondary school so more can stay home alone.

pumpkinpie01 · 23/03/2020 07:16

My sons class , year 2, has a group chat and it looks like 6 out of 30 are going in . My son is one of them ( we are both key workers) so will see when I take him how many.

baffledbat · 23/03/2020 07:20

50 out of 1400 are expected at our local high school so well within the 10%.

YouthClub · 23/03/2020 07:25

We are expecting almost 60 out of 580 so very close to the 10%!

BeingATwatItsABingThing · 23/03/2020 07:26

We’re expecting 15 (last number I heard) out of around 480.

ChittyChittyBoomBoom · 23/03/2020 10:34

We’re a large primary with 500+ children. 139 returned forms on Friday but less then 50 arrived this morning.

CuckooCuckooClock · 23/03/2020 10:51

Larger than average secondary. Less than 20 turned up this morning.
Well under 10%.

AHippoNamedBooBooButt · 23/03/2020 12:32

We were expecting about 50 but less than 15 have arrived. Average secondary - usually about 1000 students.

CallmeAngelina · 23/03/2020 12:51

We had around 54 rout of 450 registered (by Saturday morning - may have increased since then) but only 18 have turned up today.
Hard to tell if that will increase or decrease as the week progresses.

BeingATwatItsABingThing · 23/03/2020 12:54

My friend had one child turn up at their school.

WTFdidwedo · 23/03/2020 12:58

We've got 5 hub schools operating 8-6 in my area. The numbers were large initially but they're really enforcing the two key workers rule now so think they're back down.

ThisIsNotARealAvo · 23/03/2020 13:04

In my school of 400, there are 8 in today. And some of them are just waiting for their parents to get set up for home working, then they will be at home too. By the end of the week there will probably be about 5. HT said that neighbouring schools have similar numbers. And we are in one of the London boroughs with the highest number of cases of COVID-19.

Grasspigeons · 23/03/2020 13:04

We basically set up a childcare facility - so over the week we are expecting 40 children but not all at the same time. We seem to have taken a different tact. We tried to do it more like nhs shift patterns, with bookable sessionz between 8 and 6. I am wondering if we got it wrong and should have just done 8.30 - 3.30 and got all in on day 1 for the stats.

Stuckforthefourthtime · 23/03/2020 13:28

i know of at least two families sending their child in today as one parent a key worker yet the other is now wfh. I haven't said anything to them but it's not sitting well with me at all

Would you hire someone who said they were going to do all their work from home while also homeschooling multiple children? Presumably you'd think they were taking the p*. Not everyone has a job that can be done around childcare, especially for younger children, not every employer is being flexible, and plenty of people will be made redundant if they announce that they can't work, especially given the way the economy is going. Plenty of others would like to be home but their employers have used the overly general 'key worker' definition to tell them they have to show up, even if their actual job is clearly non-key (eg Pets at Home!). DH and I can both work from home and even with both of us, it's proving virtually impossible to manage full time work and multiple small DCs.

This pandemic is bringing out so many lovely supportive people on the one hand, but so much judgement of our neighbours and supposed friends. People are generally doing the best they can, I think that lots of posters on here need to have a bit more imagination and empathy and focus on what they can actually control.

LolaSmiles · 23/03/2020 13:35

I think some schools are finding a difference between how many are eligible and how many attend.
On the gripe vine in my area quite a lot of people have genuinely only sent students in if it's a last resort.

Meanwhile on MN there's so many very important husbands.

Would you hire someone who said they were going to do all their work from home while also homeschooling multiple children? Presumably you'd think they were taking the p*.

Of course,because that would be recruiting in normal times.

But these aren't normal times. We are in the middle of a pandemic.
Why do people insist on trying to compare normal recruitment and working patterns with 'middle of a pandemic changes to work and lifestyle?

During a national crisis most people are mucking in, doing their bit, accepting that people are WFH when the schools are closed, and adjusting expectations accordingly. Just some MN husbands seem to think they need more peace and quiet than millions of other parents.

CallmeAngelina · 23/03/2020 13:37

It's been made extremely clear that these EMERGENCY child-care hubs are for children whose parents are vital workers and have no other choice. It is NOT about preserving people's incomes, sorry.
Those employers who are not being adaptable and understanding should be named and shamed and realise that this is a pandemic and unprecedented in our times and everyone will be taking a hit. It is extremely unreasonable to expect staff to put in normal hours at 100% capacity if working from home and having small children around.
That said, some people's parenting standards are going to have to drop a little too. It won't kill the kids to sit in front of the telly a bit more than usual and any NT child of school age ought to be able to understand not to bother a parent when they're on an important task.

HopeClearwater · 23/03/2020 19:46

The numbers need to be reported by schools to the DfE every day, so yes, they’re looking at it closely.

qweryuiop · 23/03/2020 23:23

We had one child come. Parent didn't like that it was just going to be him in, so decided to take him home. Sort of sums it up really!

Schools with more in should be questioning people far more. Why can't these children be looked after safely at home? I understand schools may have more CP cases than ours, and may have more key worker parents without a suitable support network, but some of the numbers quoted here are mad. 12 out of 60 kids in? No way there was no safer alternative.