Quote Originally Posted by CCFCC3PO View Post
Not in Drakeford's case by the looks of it.

School re-opening. So, I was talking to my sister about her son. Their school is opening for 4 weeks, Y1-Y6. However, kids will attend just 1 morning a week (2 days), and there will be no teaching. My sister's conclusion - not worth it (despite her concerns on the effects of his education, 4 morning sessions with no teaching is not going to have an impact on that). Which, I have to say, seems a good decision. It helps protect teachers as we head to September when Social distancing can hopefully be relaxed as cases continue to wane.

However, this needs a real plan. If kids are allowed just 1 or 2 sessions of school a week then that serves no purpose at all. Maybe it needs some out of the box thinking, and maybe the use of offices, night/evening classes to get more regular schooling.
My two have got 2 half days each, so one full day. It’s just really a catch up so when they go back it won’t have been 6 whopping months since they were last there, which could be daunting to many where a month is a long time. I reckon we will have applied the Dutch approach by then anyway and abandonded SD amongst the kids at least.....