The Twelfth Republic - push and glide to the summer break

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@RafaIsTheKingOfClay I'm sure I read that if there were two cases then the whole school would close?
Bubbles seem fairly unbreakable based on my school. 2 children self-isolating in one year 1 bubble and 1 in my year one bubble. One in year 6 too.

Thanks, Chloe.

It'll be OK, just applying of the brakes on planning for next week, the first week after the winter break. Thankfully the state government has extended the holiday for junior years for a week so only dealing with 11s and 12s (12s and 13s UK), so staff can catch up on online delivery.

I don't think our school are being insistent enough that children get tested, and I worry for September even more.

I know that no-one has suggested it (it has popped up in my head)

Could you imagine the rage if schools insisted that all children were tested?

The "how very dare you not trust parents" threads would be epic.

Don't even go there, Fripp.

10,000 refused COVID tests in Melbourne. Not parents (just fuckwits)

Now we're in a new lockdown with online teaching for six weeks

@echt this is what worries me. It's all well and good self-isolating but the rest of the bubble stay in school.

@echt

Its the stupidity that gets me.

In England we have just had three pubs shut as some of the people taht went there either couldn't be bothered for their tests to come back or (allegedly) went knowing that they were positive.

It’s making my head hurt. That’s what I thought I’d read about 2 cases closing the school, but I’d assumed that 1 case would mean that bubble would have to self-isolate. Especially if no social distancing is going on within bubbles and you can’t easily figure out who has been a close contact of who.

Now we're in a new lockdown with online teaching for six weeks

I unintentionally made it look like that was the main issue. It isn't. The real thing is that people are going to die, not because there aren't enough ICU places, Victoria is pretty well -prepared, just the projected data.

I'm sorry echt, what do they think the main reasons are? I've just seen the guardian report and the numbers look scary.

Bar the bubble pricks who won't test.

I think there's still a lot of confusion over when to get a test. Lots of threads asking about themselves or a child.

Basically going forward, any sort of illness needs a test.

I've just got up It's that week 2 of holiday and everyday is the frickin same, feeling. The dcs don't seem to have noticed I wasn't around either!
Don't think I'll turn the news on. That's a shame about Melbourne Echt.

A nursery in Mk Didn't close with 23 cases. PHE seem to be moving hell and high water to keep educational settings open.

I don't think it will be two cases and out in any school tbh.

@MrsHerculePoiroy, thanks for the virtual healthy snacks . I am in self-isolation so having to do 56 laps of the garden to keep my step count up. Fortunately the neighbours already know we are mad.

Just checking in folks. I am staying out of any other teacher threads because it's bad for my blood pressure!

Awful to be told 6 weeks from the outset. We just kept being told 3 weeks after 3 weeks after 3 weeks. By the end of that third lot of 3 weeks I was properly done with it all and taking myself back to work.

Just reserving a seat with my planner...

I imagine school closures will only happen if there are not enough staff to safely open the school. Which is a problem for village schools where there might be 4 teachers, a couple of TA's and 90 pupils. But in larger schools I imagine they would just use TA's to cover classrooms until they had too few staff.

My impression was the whole point of bubbles was that the bubble would be removed from the school, to isolate and therefore minimise spread, pending the results of testing.

I thought we just SI the bubble with two cases?

I am not sure what happened in MK but the school certainly didn't close and yet the virus was found in parents, staff and children.

Sorry the rules for September?

Though it seems silly not to be running that rule now.

Are nurseries different??

A primary school on the border with mk and Northamptonshire was closed for deep clean as a student tested positive.

www.mkfm.com/news/local-news/primary-school-near-milton-keynes-closed-after-pupil-tests-positive-for-coronavirus/

Some nurseries have separate rooms for each age stage, So maybe only children and adults in these rooms have isolated?

The news said it was a 'bubble* so I guess it could juts about conceivably have been many DCs , their parents, and two staff? It does beautifully present the community spread, though, and yet barely reported whereas three pubs (possibly unnecessarily) closing is Big News.

Call me paranoid, but... I smell media agenda.

Does it actually say two cases in the guidelines? I don't think it does.

Two may have been extrapolated by media, as it constitutes a reportable outbreak.