How is multi-squadron activities not an issue then? You could have cadets from tens of different schools mixing.
And that’s where some careful application of bubbles come in - when you split the cadets down, you need to minimise the mixing - so keep schools together where you can etc. however it’s unlikely we’ll be able to manage that in any meaningful way.
All we can manage is from the point they come in through the front door. So the cadets will be split into bubbles, and in those bubbles they shall stay - for parade nights, weekend activities etc for as long as possible - simply to minimise the amount of mixing in our setting.
We’ve got 26 schools or colleges represented. 19 of which have 1 or 2 cadets.
If we bubble each school group, allocate them one of our 2 parade nights a week (except for the nights that coincide with the Army Reserve parades, because we’ve been told we can’t share the compound when they’re on) we might just see everyone in the sqn by August 2021.
We’ve grouped schools and colleges from parts of our catchment area (e.g. the west of town). Some schools have 2 cadets, some have 10. Schools and colleges together also give a good mix of ages and ranks.
That’s clearly not going to work, so you just need to try and keep as few school groups as possible in your bubble of 15.
Sounds like a sensible approach to me!
We have rare moments of inspiration 
We currently have cadets from 21 different schools, a university, and one or two who are home schooled full time. I’ve just decided to group them by classification seniority and keep them as rigidly as possible in those bubbles.
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I think that’s the approach I’ll be going with for the trg programme at the unit I work with. I’ll try and corral school bubbles where I can but I doubt it’ll be particularly successful.
Something that one of the mums of 3 young children (7-11) at work said, if kids are meant to be insidious harbourers and spreaders of this disease, why haven’t there been millions of cases among the parents, like her and her husband, where families have been cooped up in their houses, where there is no distancing/bubbles.
Because the kids haven’t been mixing in schools over the last six months.
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So I take it you are one of those who believes as the kids go back to school we will get a second wave, which begs the question why bother about thinking about cadets restarting.
I’m not an epidemiologist but I’m guessing there will be an uptick in cases now that the schools are open again. Whether it will be a full blown second wave I do not know.
You could ask the same question of everything. Schools are open so let’s close the pubs. Schools are open so no more indoor visits. It’s a case of wait and see what happens and responding appropriately when it does.
Why are you so incessantly negative about absolutely everything?
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Maybe not at school, but are you trying to tell me that 100% of cadets have socially isolated outside school throughout the whole period. Never.
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No.
But Teflon was talking about 3-7 year olds.
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I was talking about all kids in an educational setting, I didn’t mention 3-7 year olds specifically, The lady at work has 3 children aged 7-11.
Where is it being negative to suggest that school children are not harbingers of doom and going to infect everyone they come into contact with. Which is the negative perspective being taken, hence all the bubbles etc in schools.
Looks the PM will announce that social bubbles will be cut to 6 max. Wonder if that will filter through to us.
Need to see what the youth guidance is, ultimately we are none essential and mixing schools and homes so they may see us as an easy cut.
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Personally kinda written off 90% of cadet stuff until new year
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