So how is your school managing bubbles of 230?

[UncertaintyBlues]

I'm secondary and I am absolutely fine with going back. I'm not anxious about the virus, I'm more anxious about how the heck it's meant to work in September.

Our school has announced that it will be a case of the students staying in rooms and staff moving round. But that is all they know at the moment. More details will follow in a couple of week. My first questions are:

1. So are we not setting students? Or will they be able to move around within their year group bubble? I can see our school saying, for the example, that the maths department is year 7. Our departments are quite separate so it could work.

2. How will I cope sharing a room with 4 other teachers. Things will get lost/moved. Will we have to live with a box of maths books and text books/science/English etc. Every subject has text books of some kind.

3. How will we deal with the fact that at lesson changeover, students may be left alone while the next teacher comes? Patrol the corridor?

Anything else I haven't thought of? Has anybody's school made an announcement with actual detail?

I sound grumpy and I bloody am. I want my classroom back, I want to know where all my bits are for the kids. I usually login and get all my lessons up at the beginning of the day. I run like a well oiled machine. The idea of legging it round the school every hour to the next class, faffing about logging on and getting to their lesson and then not being able to find the projector remote is filling me with anxiety!

@ValancyRedfern that sounds similar to us. However, we can't do any practical work for the first term

Workload is going to be tough because the lessons we have written rely on practical work.

Because DH is CV , I have been trying to get my head round the thing about one positive test. The more I read it, the more I see how much responsibility is being conferred on adults to keep away from others. I already had to tell two other adults to step away from me today!

My dh is clinically extremely vulnerable but I'm reassured a little by plans for next year, including giving me only two year groups.

Our local sixth form college is 1,250 per year group.

I genuinely don't even think they are bubbling my school, so that's 1800...

My head is planning a system in which year groups will occupy certain areas of the school and these will be staffed by representatives from each department. So bubbles will be formed and staff won't break them. To be honest, it reassures me a little because, although a bubble of 200 is a bit ridiculous, it limits movement so much, and the corridors are the scariest aspect of this for me. So our kids will stay in the same room for the majority of lessons and just leave for breaks, lunch and PE. KS4 students will also move to specialist rooms where needed but are based in that area of the school anyway, so still minimal movement.

Biggest drawback is that KS3 classes will have to be taught by non-specialist teachers for some subjects (those with small departments like art etc) and students won't get the specialist equipment/rooms etc. And teachers of core subjects will go mad teaching the same lesson to between 4 and 8 groups per week!

We're having a primary model for 789 and 10-11 are mostly normal.

To be honest it's going to be a nightmare. Mixed ability year 9 maths anyone?!

The corridor contact would only be fleeting even though it's all of them.

One place I heard is having 2 lessons per day, 3 hour morning and 2 hour afternoon. I'd resign.

We're having zones, so the staff (who are still having to mix with hundreds of kids across year group 'bubbles') are the ones having to run around with all their stuff and login to different computers five times a day.

If the kids can mix in groups of 300 and this is fine, I'm struggling to know why it's an unacceptable level of risk for thrm to use the corridors.

Oh and we'll all be on break duty every day.

@Hercwasonaroll 2 and 3 hour lessons that would be awful!

I'm not looking forward to mixed ability Y9. Plus, because kids are zoned, teachers are going to be running all over the school

It's going to be a bloody long first half term!

2 hour lessons for us.

My resignation is waiting for the second I have another job.

@PumpkinPie2016

It's going to be a bloody long first half term! Do you think you'll get your classrooms back at some point? I'm worried this level of stress will become permanent!

We're zoning but with some movement for Y10/11 too.

What about the fact that kids will be left unsupervised in their room until a teacher gets there??

And what if it's a DT or Science room, normally completely out of bounds without a member of staff??

@Lanshrop for the moment, the plan is in place for the first half term -I live in hope we will be more 'normal' after that.

I am attempting to get some planning done over summer but I'm struggling a bit because we can't give out worksheets/other papers and only have the e-versions of textbooks.

I have a low ability Y10 and Y11 and can't give them copies of notes/diagrams/questions. Going round in circles trying to plan