Which essex schools are closed

If the north Essex districts were included in the framework, it would mean that all primary schools in Essex would move to remote learning until at least Monday January 18, with the exception of key workers' and vulnerable children. I would only make this request under these extremely challenging circumstances. Uttlesford primary schools to stay closed to most pupils and move to remote learning By Paul Winspear -. Published: , 03 January School uniform.

Primary schools across north Essex will close and move to online learning this week as the county council seeks urgent clarity from the Government over rising Covid cases. The move, backed by public health officials, affects schools in Colchester, Tendring and Uttlesford and brings the areas in line with other, more southerly districts of Essex already closing to pupils until mid-January.

On Sunday, Essex County Council announced it had written to all primary schools in these areas to tell them to move to remote learning on Tuesday, when most pupils were due to go back. Secondary school pupils will remain at home this week as planned, with exam students due to return from January 11 and others from January Under rules drawn up by the Department for Education, schools can be included in a 'contingency framework' which means they operate remotely if there are high levels of infection locally and pressure on NHS services.

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She says it has been "unfair" on the school to be told at such short notice that they were not going to reopen on Monday as planned, and it has also been "unsettling" for Alfie. Father-of-three Rob White says the current situation was a "bit of a lose-lose scenario".

The year-old, whose five-year-old daughter Amelia goes to Highfields Primary School in Lawford, says: "No matter what they do, someone is going to be unhappy about it.

Both Mr White, a governor at his daughter's school, and his wife Lauren are working from home, due to the pandemic, and their twin four-year-old boys Alexander and Oliver go to Busy Bees Kindergarten, which is on the same site at the primary school.

He says, as things currently stand, the two boys will still be able to go to nursery. As a family, Mr White says it has been an "anxious" time and at times difficult to balance work and trying to look after and educate their children but they have close family near their home in Brantham, Suffolk, and have been able to form a childcare bubble.

The council has requested "urgent dialogue" to start with the DfE on Monday about reviewing the position of schools in Colchester, Tendring and Uttlesford.

The DfE would not comment specifically on any negotiations with Essex. Instead, a spokesman for the department said: "We will continue to work closely with those responsible for schools up and down the country with the first principle that it's good to keep schools open if we can.