Today with staff already absent, due to isolating, we made the decision to collapse year groups into 2 classes. We knew many children would not attend after yesterdays announcement and with huge staffing issues it was the best option. We also didn’t want parents wandering all round the building to drop children off, potentially contaminating doors and pegs etc.
We weren’t really sure what to expect. So, we only opened one entrance into school, for all children (although we thought Nursery would be best in their familiar environment). The children were confused and the parents were concerned about organising their child’s resources etc and some were concerned we were putting all the children in one room. There were comments and emails about all the children congregating together and that it is not suitable. However, would it have been better for children to enter classes with no adult at all? So, as always we continued to do the best we could with the resources available. We were approximately 20 children short in each year group, which meant we had enough teachers and familiar adults to split the children in two groups.
As a parent, myself and my partner, made the difficult decision to leave our son at home, with his father, from today. It is our feeling that Boris has waited too long to close the country down, I believe it should maybe have been done two weeks prior. With the impeding closure on Friday we saw no sense in exposing him to even more risk by sending him to school. If we are too shut schools due to the risk, then lets shut them. Leaving children exposed for another two days seem a bizarre decision to me. If parents could keep them home, then I believe they should, in turn lowering the risk for the other parents who have no choice but the send children until they arrange some type of care.
If the government are preparing resources around the country, which it seems they are according to the picture below, then why would we continue to send our children to school?
