Children within a Year 8 social bubble at Cowes Enterprise College have been sent home following a confirmed case of COVID-19 within the school.
Parents have been asked to collect their children or arrange for them to be sent home as a result of a positive test result amongst those in the school community.
All students within the effected school bubble – thought to be the entire Year 8 – must now study from home until 17th November.
It’s unclear if the positive case is involving a student or teacher.
The rest of the school remains open as normal and children should continue to attend as long as they are feeling well.
The news comes on the same day that 33 children and 5 staff have been sent home from Binstead Primary School, as previously reported by Island Echo.
So it begins
Schools shouldn’t be open they should teach using zoom. This should have happened right at the start but then staff would have had to work instead of being out and about with their own children. Nice 26 week holiday
I wonder how many of the children will self isolate from today not many would be my guess. Bubbles in school are OK but over a thousand kids arrive and leave school together ridiculous or what
My child will be self isolating, I can assure you of that. Not all parents are irresponsible, like your comment suggests.
Good for you but you’re in the minority and that’s another 11 days of not leaving the house
Problem is Sarah, those huge growing amount who are ‘irresponsible’ will not be so offended to feel the need to comment on here. Thus we can get this distorted view that those parents who are, or think they are responsible, are in the huge majority.
I genuinely doubt that is so in many schools now as the lower elements oft use having a children as a way of securing a subsidised home, and income, so much so that the news has spread to the third world, who, risk their life and limb to come to jump on the same easy bandwagon.
Parents who cannot even feed their children now, are hardly responsible people, as all get enough to cover food, and as we see in life, the ‘lesson’ they have learnt, and learnt well is ‘The squeakiest wheel, gets the MOST oil’
An important lesson in a welfare charity kept society, of which some newcomers are using to their full advantage.
And so the silly ‘bubble’ goes pop.
All this bubble nonsense should stop, I’m in this bubble, and I have another bubble there, and when I go out I’m in another bubble, ridiculous. Pop them all and just keep apart. The island will be lockdown longer than ever if this keeps up.
Do you realise actually how difficult it is to distance in a corridor full of about 200 kids that isn’t event 2 metres wide? You can’t just “keep apart”
Im in yr7 and if we were to get a case then you let’s say wouldn’t have to isolate so the bubble mean that thousands of don’t have to isolate
In my opinion. Too little too late. Staff and pupils should be wearing masks from the day they returned to school.
In class the pupils are closer than 2mtrs.
It only needs the 1 pupil to infect part of the so called bubble, then the infections spread to adults when the children get home.
I had to self isolate for 4 months in march because of an underlying health issue , now I am placed at risk once again because of draconian school Rules!!!!
The government are just as much to blame.
For the next 4 weeks. Schools should remain closed and home learning via zoom or any of the modern IT programmes should pave the way for a resolve to this invisible global problem.
masks and social distancing clearly didn’t work – if they did, then there would have been no resurgence at all.
more BS from the alleged scientists.
First week back at school my son caught a cold, so clearly IF CV is easier to catch, then catching a cold with using masks, gels, distancing, didn’t prevent that, then what hope the CV? All will catch this before long now.
It’s not the fact it didn’t work for the fact of being asked to do it, it’s the fact that too many self richeous people won’t wear them because they think it doesn’t apply to them, and in this country people don’t like to be told or advised to do something, even if it means keeping other people safe and well. Until the day that one of your family members is ill or even dies from this awful disease then you might buck your ideas up and do something about it. Also if you knew someone who works in the NHS and sees what it’s like head on then maybe, just maybe you might think again…
might well have done if all the people followed the rules. i see more people not or partially wearing a mask than I do see them wearing them properly. see the same guilty parties walk past hand sanitiser stations at shop entrances, no wonder we have gone from 10 a month to 10 a day in just a few months. Schools cant socially distance safely either side of the school day so should be closed during the lockdown, make up the 4 weeks out of the 13 weeks school hols or remote teaching.
It’s all wrong no pubs/restaurant and should be no excuse for any of them how are we going to get it down otherwise…people are not social distancing by the two meters rule again …what is with everyone they must be plain silly or want to get it
Shut the schools