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Re-opening Schools?

Teachers/parents; are kids wearing masks at all where you are? Here they're expected to in communal areas but I think that might only be happening in Devon and Cornwall.

It's fucking daft anyway. Clearly the classroom where kids are sat shoulder to shoulder for an hour at a time is when there's the greatest risk of transmission.
 
Teachers/parents; are kids wearing masks at all where you are? Here they're expected to in communal areas but I think that might only be happening in Devon and Cornwall.

It's fucking daft anyway. Clearly the classroom where kids are sat shoulder to shoulder for an hour at a time is when there's the greatest risk of transmission.
Still wearing masks in communal areas and in classes in Edinburgh. Still mandatory so only a few deniers saying it gives them panic attacks - my boys report most kids wear them.
 
When does the 12-15 vaccination program start? I

I've just had a text for a booster jab, 6 months from the last one for 50+ or 16 + and clinically vulnerable
 
When does the 12-15 vaccination program start? I

I've just had a text for a booster jab, 6 months from the last one for 50+ or 16 + and clinically vulnerable
Starting from this week I believe. You can take them to specific walk-in centres here and they're sending out appointments from next week. Mine are going on Friday.
 
Not in the news but...

My testing team are going to a junior school which has had a major outbreak of Covid since opening.

Kids, teachers (including head and deputy head) and parents all testing positive. So we are going there for two days with PCR testing for all contacts including siblings etc.

The school may close as a 'circuit breaker' depending on the result.
 
Its never too late to make a real difference in terms of specific people in specific places getting it or not. Even when its too late to have avoided a spike in numbers and specific outbreaks starting in the first place. Its a bit like when people were tempted to feel defeated when things go out of control nationally or when individual measures werent enough on their own to turn the tide.
 
Went to a proper superspreader event the other day, a Secondary school Open Evening. Hundreds of parents and kids from Primary Schools across the area crammed into a (despite their best efforts tbf) poor ventilated auditorium with kids and teachers from the Sec. School. Less than 5% of adults in masks.
 
Went to a proper superspreader event the other day, a Secondary school Open Evening. Hundreds of parents and kids from Primary Schools across the area crammed into a (despite their best efforts tbf) poor ventilated auditorium with kids and teachers from the Sec. School. Less than 5% of adults in masks.
Same where I work. Feeling awful today
 
Went to a proper superspreader event the other day, a Secondary school Open Evening. Hundreds of parents and kids from Primary Schools across the area crammed into a (despite their best efforts tbf) poor ventilated auditorium with kids and teachers from the Sec. School. Less than 5% of adults in masks.
That's pretty much the day to day experience of us teachers. Just less adults and more children.
 
There is a lot of parents bringing kids in for LFTs at the moment. No bad thing if course but with this cold going around they are showing mild symptoms. So far this week all negative which is pleasing but disruptive at best.
 
We have an Estyn (Welsh equivalent of Ofsted) inspection next week as they've decided it's safe to go back into schools now. This week we've had 20% of staff and 20% of our attending kids off with positive PCR tests (we are a very small school).

Be interesting to see if they come in masks. Because only 20% of the staff do (and about the same number of pupils).
 
My college has- halfway through this (third) week - sent an email including a Covid reporting form and the info that there is an Outbreak Management Plan triggered if 5 staff or students OR 10% of staff/students who may have been in close contact test positive within a ten day period.

We have three things going through college like wildfire right now: a very nasty cold including splitting headaches; sickness and diarrhoea; Covid. No mandatory masks/distancing/pretty much any mitigation is having a huge impact. But as the dozen or so learners off in my dept due to Covid or suspected Covid are spread across different groups we carry on without any mitigation.

Had two learners separately come onto site to say they think they have Covid and what should they do about it :facepalm:
 
FFS

One teacher I spoke to earlier said every day parents call in saying their kids have potential Covid symptoms and 'what should they do?' :rolleyes:

Also that a lot of parents are just sending their symptomatic kids in without having tested them at home.
 
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