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May 2020
9:56am, 27 May 2020
3,635 posts
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Mrsbridgewater
Nope, and it is horribly invasive. Zero boundary between work and home life 
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May 2020
11:52am, 27 May 2020
70 posts
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LouiseRuns 🌹🇬🇧 🇪🇺
Bumped into my old boss this morning. Her daughter now works in the same school I work in. She's been in this week, sorting out individual stationery sets for Nursery and Reception children to be using when they go back. I just can't see it working.
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May 2020
10:38pm, 27 May 2020
16,871 posts
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GimmeMedals
That's on the list of jobs I've had to leave with my deputy getting ready for Monday, LR. I feel guilty not being in school when so much needs doing but I've got to self-isolate and there's little I can do about that. I'm manning the emails and liaising with parents from home and keeping my fingers tightly crossed that everything goes to plan.
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May 2020
7:25am, 28 May 2020
11,602 posts
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Ness
You’ve done everything you can, GM. I was in my school yesterday and lots of things were being organised. One of the issues is that the building’s corridors are too narrow so some kind of one way system will need to be introduced to maintain social distancing. The students won’t like that!
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May 2020
9:42am, 28 May 2020
37,114 posts
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LindsD
We have that problem too, and yesterday I was told we might even have a problem getting people IN the building, as it's one of the busiest streets in the whole country, and the association that owns?/runs the street is making plans to ensure social distancing.
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May 2020
12:42pm, 28 May 2020
4,125 posts
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Cyclops
We've been really extravagant and bought pencil cases ready filled with pen, pencil, ruler, rubber, pencil sharpener and whiteboard pen
Our school has classrooms which each have an outside door and their own sinks in the classrooms and toilets with basins opening off each room. We are in a mainly white, suburban area and have extensive school grounds to use - 3 playgrounds and a lot of field - some mown short, some long grass, some tree-filled. We even have a parents' car park!
We are very lucky. We are able to do so safely so the Governors have agreed that we are opening on Monday to all the children who want to come in from Nursery, Reception, Y1 and Y6 as well as our key worker and vulnerable children. No other school locally has the space, rooms, facilities or access that we have and are not able to open as fully as we can.
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May 2020
5:48pm, 29 May 2020
16,875 posts
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GimmeMedals
We've bought a zipped plastic bag fo reach child, Cyclops - similar idea
We also have external doors to all classrooms and have wide corridors, thanks to the architect and me having a chat about what I thought a school should be like when the KS2 block was built 9 years ago
Yhe playground and field are big enough is we use both. But the school is down a deadens street so it gets busy with traffic at drop off time.
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May 2020
6:35pm, 29 May 2020
4,128 posts
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Cyclops
That's impressive forward planning, GM! Some schools are in really inaccessible places - I suppose the assumption was that nearly all children would walk to school.
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May 2020
6:38pm, 29 May 2020
11,634 posts
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Ness
Which for special schools is definitely not true. Nearly all our students travel in to school by minibus or taxis. Safe journeys to and from school are a significant factor in preparation of the risk assessment for the students return to school.
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May 2020
6:55pm, 29 May 2020
4,129 posts
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Cyclops
So hard for special schools at the moment, Ness.
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