Schools may operate on rota system in locked down areas

Schools will be told to operate on a rota if local lockdowns make it impossible to operate as normal, the Education Secretary has announced. Gavin Williamson said pupils will switch between classroom and home learning to “break chains of transmission of the virus” under of a four-tier system introduced just days before pupils in England return full time. The Government had previously played down the idea of rotas, insisting that Covid security measures being put in place in schools w