Northumberland families share their back-to-school views as children return to classrooms

As families prepare for the next step, we asked you how you were feeling about your children going back to class.

Certain year groups returned to school before the summer break, some children attended throughout lockdown and others remained at home for the duration.

This is how you reacted on the Northumberland Gazette Facebook page:

Patricia Best: “Time will tell! Hope they and their teachers are safe and when they come home hope all family members are safe too.”

Jill Fernback: “I’m confident the school will have worked so hard to get things right but it’s trial and error for them too. They’re probably as nervous as us.”

Wilson Athey: “The students are very very unlikely to be seriously ill. If they take precautions are less likely to give it to vulnerable adults.”

Nicola Nichol-Wedderburn: “I’m happy for them to go back - with two Year 11s I’m much more concerned about the prospect of NOT going back.”

Graham Longfils: “If the coronovirus epidemic had been properly organised, with clear advice and instructions, from February, we would not be in this mess.”

Angela Stewart: “As a granny who looks after her granddaughter while mammy and daddy work, I'm completely stressed out with worry.”

Mark Atkinson: “You can describe schools as being safe as you like but it's the kids that will be bringing in and spreading Covid. And what's worse it that they don't generally display symptoms but could be as likely to spread.”

Annie Hart: “I know some parents that are going down the route of home schooling, mainly those of children who are asthmatic. They are not prepared to risk their childs health under any Covid-19 precautions a school may have put in place.”

Al Jones: “Kids generally don’t show symptoms & becoming ill or die fortunately. Outside of schools who are the biggest childcare providers? Grandparents! While parents are working grandparents will pick up the slack & provide childcare to the kids & that is how it’ll spread.”

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