No outdoor time for nursery kids? Only table work and no play for Y1? Sounds horrendous and totally against everything eyfs should be. I totally get reasonable adjustments need made, but to me that doesn’t sound reasonable. Surely being outside there is more space to socially distance the kids?
Interested to see how it all works. That implies that every school has a load of extra classrooms. My kids school has 6 classrooms for 7 year groups (one class is composite). No way of it working at all there.
Agreed. In my experience (extensive, but not exhaustive!), staff and school leaders
want to do their jobs but the plans from the government will be a logistical nightmare in many settings (staff ratios, physical space, and resources).
Similar to many in the medical professional (nurses, social workers, care assistants etc.), education professionals really don’t do it for the money. Trust me...the money is very average, term-time hours take the actual piss, and they still work a fair amount of time during holidays. I’m not a teacher myself, but have worked in education for many years previously.
In addition to the most likely nightmarish day of trying to socially distance young children, you’re likely spend most of your evenings responding to emails from parents with comments like “
Betsy said that Eric definitely shared her pencil today; I’m sick with worry...how can this have been allowed to happen.”, to “
When I dropped off Evie today I noticed that you were standing slightly less than 2 mtrs from another parent when you were talking to them- I do hope that isn’t a regular occurrence.” The whole situation makes me want to weep for the teachers I know...and yet I know they’ll make the best of it for the kids in their classes.
I know I sound a bit ranty....but just a bit sick of people saying that so many professions are making the most of a bad situation, why are teachers complaining about going back? Umm...because they have your beautiful children in their care! And not only do they really give a crap about your kids, but they will be well aware that you won’t hesitate to have an absolute pop at them if you feel that your child (or you, by proxy), hasn’t been properly protected, right?
If our government can’t get their act together with PPE and my loved one dies because a medical professional refused to care for them in the absence of appropriate PPE- who is to blame? I wouldn’t blame the doctor or nurse one bit. The government has blood on its hands. I am happy to keep my kids at home on 1st June and encourage schools to pushback to this government in regard to their utter lack of consideration/consultation with school leaders before they made such a rash and potentially unachievable proposals.
Boris just wants to get the economy moving- and the evidence thus far suggests that kids are in all likelihood low-risk carriers- so he’s happy to push on through regardless of huge concerns from within the profession. As I say....blood on their hands and a massive risk to so many of us. Selfish fucker who is happy to roll the dice with kids and staff in schools for the sake of getting the economy moving a month or two earlier. Don’t know why I’m surprised....Boris shows scant regard for any of his wives or children-why would he give a crap about anyone else?
although he went this evening. You have to book via an online system so that it’s only one (or two) people at a time so that’s quite good though. He played alone.
it wasnt far but a nice change. We picked a less popular beach and it wasnt too bad thankfully. My 6 year old got all upset as we got back to the car saying we were going to catch the virus and die and how we shouldn't have gone out today. Broke my heart. He calmed down after a snack 
