I work in a primary school close to a large hospital here in Exeter. We have stayed open throughout the lockdown and the Easter Holidays. I work in the admin team, the engine room of the school. It's been building up but last Wednesday I had a total meltdown and couldn't stop crying. Nobody is observing social distancing despite us sticking tape to the floor indicating 2 metres from our desks. I do get it, the teachers and teaching assistants can't socially distance from the 50+ children of front line workers that we have in school, but I have become genuinely frightened. We have had one child with a confirmed case of Covid. I'm 65 with chronic bronchitis. I was sent home and since then seem to have slipped into a "black hole" that I can't climb out of. Can barely get out of bed some days. I'm planning to phone my GP tomorrow but will I be allowed to see him face to face? Who knows? Now the Gov are saying years F, 1 & 6 back into school, and all staff, from 1st June. In our school thats 270 children just those year groups. I'm so worried and feel like I've let the team down as everyone else seems okay to be in school and put up with it. Am I being "over the top".
How do you acknowledge Easter.
Kate Garroway-Care at home costs