There is more disruption for children in Liverpool today after a city primary school was forced to send home two year groups to self isolate.
Parents and carers of pupils in year three and four at St Vincent De Paul Primary School in Liverpool city centre were asked to come and pick up their children as soon as possible this afternoon.
A message sent out by staff member Christine O'Keefe on the classroom app Seesaw said: "We have received notification that a child in our Year 4 class has tested positive on a Lateral Flow Test.
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"As a result, a PCR test will now follow. School procedures now mean that we will have to close the Year 3 and 4 bubble immediately.
"Could all children be collected from the usual pick up place ASAP? More details will follow once we have received the PCR result, this may however be over the weekend so we will use the Seesaw platform and our school messaging service."
This is the latest in a long line of schools forced to send pupils home because of covid.
There are now around 7,000 pupils across the city not attending school as the virus continues to wreak havoc on end of term plans.
With the majority of school children not eligible for vaccination, pupils and their families appear to be bearing the brunt of disruption from the latest Covid-19 wave.
In the case of many schools the disruption has hit mock examinations and assessments as well as scuppering end of year celebrations like proms and assemblies.
Education secretary Gavin Williamson said this week that he wanted to end the policy of isolation for school bubbles as soon as possible.
Answering an urgent question on the impact of coronavirus on young people’s attendance in education, Mr Williamson told the Commons: “What I want to see is these restrictions including bubbles removed as quickly as possible along with wider restrictions in society.
“I do not think it is acceptable that children should face greater restrictions over and above those of wider society especially since they have given up so much to keep older generations safe over the last 18 months."
