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Nobody has that knowledge?
The government came out today and said it is perfectly safe for school children to return to school
Jesus can't see why everyone else is now getting back yet teachers unions tell us they can't go back in September
Typical teachers

At least , we agree on your first point .
Paul Girvan MP and Ben Lowry , newsletter are the only people who advocated a full return to school , from what I heard / read today.
Teachers Unions  dont have that great an influence on the Executive. Teachers will have to accept the decisions made by Executive. It is possible that under Covid emergency legislation  , that a decree to return on Aug 17th is passed at Assembly .

It is the unions job to protect their members , it doesnt mean that the majority of teachers dont want to get back to school asap.

I think by Sept , kids and parents will be completely pissed off with home learning and online work. A quick return to full attendance is required but ONLY the Executive can call that one

Catch a grip. All schools should be 100% full attendance in September and whether you like it or not they will be.
50% with a 1 metre catch yourself on.
What's the reasoning that you are so sure that schools will only run at 50%?
And why is that the case?
10 weeks until September

A few pointers 
Initially ,Schools in north will follow the Dutch model of social bubbles of 15 children per group ./ class of 30, for example.
Most classes in newer schools are approx 60 sq. Metres
Each child will sit at a double desk which will take up 4 sq metres to ensure social distancing . Small country schools  and secondaries would have there own issues.
Under the proposals , teachers will be  social distancing in the room .How this will work for infants - no one knows .
It is expected that this is the starting point to get schools opened, it will ramp up quickly to full attendance , so long as the R  number remains low.

No one knows where we will be at in 10 weeks  time , I understand that , if the DENI said all back in Sept , that's not an issue.They have indicated a phased return at this stage.   it could be different in a weeks time .

What do you base your statement on that schools will return at 100%. ,because no one in the land has that knowledge.

Why are schools saying they don't see a full return to schools in September?
This is actually laughable
Whilst at the start the teachers union probably had the backing of most they are starting to loose it and very quickly.
Coming out with statements saying they can't reioen in September
On the back of what?
Don't say social distancing as it will be 1 metre at most come September

School classrooms aren't aircraft hangars ffs .
1m social distancing allows a 50% intake per day .
A social bubble context allows for a 50 % intake per day .

The decisions for restarting are dedicated by DENI , schools will be expected to follow the guidance information.

A small country school of 60 , a town school of 400 and a secondary school will have different decisions to make, as their buildings are completely different .

No spike in covid will lead to schools moving through different stages of attendance.

Whatever the schools do , someone is going to take the hump.
Like it or lump it

from what ive heard is that Antrim are still leaving it up to the clubs to decide if they want to run it. it will only be 100 children allowed to attend with things like each helper is assigned 6 kids and they arent allowed to change from them etc.

it all sounds pointless and not worth the hassle imo and i know in our club we arent wanting to run it and wont be if offered.

I heard that they will operate two regional camps due to no of coaches available ,over the five weeks

Thinking about buying a second house in the near future... thinking maybe Portstewart where you can get a 9 month student rental and then have it for the Summer.

Will probably leave it to the New Year to see how prices are affected.

Has anyone any similar experience? There seem to be a few of these houses for sale at the minute I wonder if you're guaranteed to get it let or not during the year?

I have a few properties that I rent out, my experience with renting to students (I have on in the holy lands) is not great, generally have a lot of money to spend each time they leave but maybe I just got the wrong ones and I don't think Portstewart would be as bad party wise as the holy lands. I gave up after 3 years and decided to rent to a family of Romanians, I would be afraid to see the state of the house when they leave but they have been in it for 7 years and I haven't had one bit of bother with them.

Overall the key to buy tickets is to not worry about the house value in two or five years time, take a long term view and just get the mortgage paid off as hassle free as possible then think that in 10/15years time you have a nice wee income every month as an early pension. If you are putting students in don't put expensive furniture in for them, keep everything basic and as unbreakable as possible.

I'd leave it to next year,  students unlikely to be back in university till Jan 21.

The whole thing is turning into a shambles. Guidance is due at end of June - it will only be guidance and not statutory requirements . Each school could be left to paddle their own canoe. No money available to cover additional costs to schools. Weir will be looking a bailout from june monitoring  round .

He handed  non contracted sub teachers about £8 million because schools  closed. 4 MLA s badgered him for weeks  to give them a hand out rather than the dole/universal credit and they had to commit to nothing . Would he not have thought to ask them to  work in summer schemes as a comeback .

Making it up as they go along !

You can have either of two solutions
1. Pay the staff ,who return early for the weeks extra work-  17th - 21st August . Most schools will be back on 24th or 25th anyway for INSET.
2 . All staff back on 17th and add extra days on to each of the holidays scheduled at Christmas,  Easter etc .

GAA Hq brought / bought servasport staff over to maintain database  after the company failed

The drawing of clubs into groups randomly, is just that too random!  You could end up with two imbalanced groups
Would it not have been reasonable to use last years league placings  and go 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15  places in one group and the evens in another .

Return on 17th subject to changes and agreement by those involved ,now

Wouldn't have a big problem returning earlier than normal as long as it's part of the 185 teaching days as agreed in the deal made in April. Longer Xmas/ Easter holidays to balance out

In Wales, they announced that the schools would be open for an extra week this side of the summer holidays, but that the first half term break in October would be extended to two weeks.

Plans for how and when pupils will return to school in Wales have been announced.

The country's education minister Kirsty Williams said schools will work "very differently" to the way they did before lockdown.

There will be a four-week term starting from Monday 29 June, that will finish on Monday 27 July.

There will also be an extra week added to the Autumn half-term break.

Class sizes will be smaller, but schools will be open to all years for limited periods during the week.

Each year will be split into groups and there will be staggered starts, lessons and break times. This means that at most a third of pupils will be in school at any one time.

It will be a similar restart plan in north.

PE KIT

Good point - Tax deductible

Return on 17th subject to changes and agreement by those involved ,now

Teachers starting on 17th will be entitled to extra pay or two weeks in lieu.

I take it you're joking!

No - Minister Weir said tonight that only P7s teachers would be back on 17th August - so they would be entitled to additional pay.

Staff ,who worked over Easter week , would get extra pay , as these hours are outside of their contracted hours

Teachers starting on 17th will be entitled to extra pay or two weeks in lieu.