Teachers and parents in England: tell us about returning to school

With new measures including hand-washing routines, ‘bubble’ student groups, and even coronavirus behavioural codes, the majority of pupils in England returned to school today for the start of the new academic year.

I haven't encountered any social distancing all day today. It was like days without an epidemic. The only difference is that we wash our hands a lot ...

Guardian readers are the virus

Let's all just generally avoid everyone else. It's what we were doing before, but now we can be more obvious about it with the approval of the State.

Is 2 meters 6feet?

this is awful

Fine so far apart from StagecoachCNL smart card not working for my youngest and their solution being 'Buy a new one' rather than ' we will make sure your 11 year old kid isn't left at the bus stop'

'We're gonna need a bigger school.'

I hear kida are exchanging masks to get the mask with their fav pattern. That sounds healthy!

Fat chance.

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Concentration camp，in Southern Mongolian

Queuing chaos at the school gate. Worse than what was in place before.

Would be easier with a media that didn't whip up anxiety with continual 'SCHOOL: IS IT SAFE' articles

My 7 year old son goes back today - he’s very excited. He had the benefit of a couple of weeks back in class before the summer holiday, so knows how things will be a little different, but he’s not fazed by it.

Many children not doing any school work in lockdown, and putting on weight. Children from vulnerable backgrounds weren’t going in when they should have been. Risk to children extremely low, and lower risk of passing on. Looking like stopping schools did far more harm than good.

My daughter isn't returning to school, she's starting. This is always an emotional time for parents and children, but now we're torn between wanting her to start her formal education and wanting to keep her safe. The Govt haven't done enough to reassure us we can do both

It’s better than Ecstasy

Men should stay 2 mtrs from women...how very Saudi Arabian!

Plus facemasks and good hygiene -- and you'll have a safer returntoschool. pandemic spotkania1 health coronavirus healthcare TogetherAgainstCovid19

I can tell you it should only happen when scientists say it's safe for them to do so...

We're not, because the BMJ puts all classroom scenarios in the high risk category, even with masks all day, and our family circumstances mean we can't risk it. We are desperately sad about being forced into this choice by the government's failures on testing and tracing.

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