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

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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%?

@Stuckforthefourthtime no one will be able to work as normal for the foreseeable, we all just have to manage through this somehow. Surely you can understand why it has to be only the most vunerable children and key worker children with NO other option that should be included?

We are a double key worker family. I am frontline NHS and DH a teacher but we are hoping between us we still won't need the emergency childcare if we can at all help it. DH will be working from home supporting the home learning of his year group whilst also home schooling our two children while I go to work with patients at a major trauma hospital. It is going to be hard.

I'm sorry you might be finding all this a bit inconvenient and needed a rant but it was totally misguided.

My son works at an academy with 1500 pupils
4 pupils turned up today (and 2 of those went home at lunchtime).
There were also 20 teachers and I don't know how many support staff....

Oh I forgot to add, on my days off he will be going to provide the emergency childcare at his school. We basically won't see each other most days. Just be grateful your family are all together.

17 out of 420 here. 2 mums turned up with the home learning packs we’d provided on Friday then, when they realised we weren’t going to sit and help them with it, took their children home again!

Our HT is determined to keep it very childcare, rather than teaching, or she thinks parents will feel that their children are missing out and send them in.

We had 3% yesterday (primary age). Mainly supermarket key workers. DH had about 8% (secondary) as he works in an area near a police county HQ and a massive national telecommunications hub.

Secondary school here. About 1%. But we had lots of conversations with parents especially Y9 & above who we persuaded would be safer at home. Across our trust schools were reporting that around half the pupils in were children of teachers at other schools!

Small number yesterday, increase of 5 fold expected today.

Large secondary. 0.7 percent.

@Stuckforthefourthtime

Totally speechless. Do you comprehend how serious this all fucking is?!?

What an attitude to it all.

I'm one week into a new role, both dh and I are working from home, I'm trying to learn new systems, get to know my colleagues while having 2 DC at home also.

Am I complaining?? NO! Because my family get to stay home and hopefully are safer than those poor DC that actually have no choice.

MNetters (obviously) were predicting everyone taking the piss and 'schools' being almost as full as usual.

Good to see so many cases where nothing like that has occured at all.

NewYearNewJob123
To be fair, the list given and the one parent key worker rule could have caused some schools to be unduly busy.

It is good to see that the piss takers on here trying to tie themselves in knots about why their DC should be in school when there's a parent/two parents at home are very much in the minority.

Does anyone know what defines a 'vulnerable' child? I have to do the new attendance sheet for my school (nearly all kids in as SEN) and one of the options is vulnerable child Y/N but no definition as to what makes them vulnerable.

It's not if they have an EHCP or social worker as those are separate options.

THANKS!

For vulnerable children I have included families who have recently been stepped down from CP/CIN and ones where Parent has mental health issues. ( this is in addition to children with EHCPs and social workers) but there doesn't seem to be a definitive list.

thank you, spaniel eyes. I've been searching for a list with no joy.

4/680 (0.6%) in our secondary today. We were expecting about 12 but I think the message might be starting to get through.

DD school is a two form entry primary plus nursery. 30 were in (we were offered care but I wanted to check numbers and procedure first), so that's out of at least 500.

4/540. We had 6 staff in yesterday, not including office staff.
Today same 4 pupils in but less staff. Been allocated a hub from tomorrow and 2 staff in per day/session. I am not in now until Monday.

@spanieleyes have all of your ‘vulnerable’ children been in so far? There are a couple we haven’t seen who I’m quite worried about - home is chaotic at the best of times.
I might try phoning tomorrow.

We got a parentmail saying that there were 80 children in our primary expected today and they were asking parents to rethink.

We had fewer than 10 in out of 400 today. A big drop from Monday.

In London I've heard the numbers are far far less than was predicted.

From what I can gather it’s nurseries who have been busier than schools. Maybe they’ve not been as strict as schools, nurseries need the money as they are private businesses. Schools get paid regardless if children are in. Not all parents will pay their fees if their dc don’t go. So if they have one key worker parent the nursery will take them.

I think the numbers have gone down, but I definitely think more nurseries have more children than schools.

We have around 40 from about 2000 11-16s, a good third of those re in the vulnerable category

I was denied a place but the email states they’re able to accommodate 1300 places

We've had 9 out of 1000 (secondary), we were expecting 70