Parents and teachers across the West Country concerned it's 'too soon' to reopen schools amid coronavirus pandemic
Parents, teachers, and council leaders across the West Country are concerned it's too soon to be sending our children back to school.
Teaching leaders have spent the week making plans for a phased return to the classroom after Boris Johnson announced that he hoped foundation children, year one and year six, could start to go back from 1 June.
Sophie Roberts from Tavistock says she won't send her daughter back to school if she doesn't believe it's safe.
Sophie's daughter Aria is five and should just be going into the last half term of her first year at school. Instead she's been doing home learning with her mum.
Schools and teachers have started getting ready for children to return.
Jo Arscott, headteacher at St Peter's junior school in Tavistock says inside space is tight, so making sure it's safe is a big concern.
She said: "School is the best place for children to be but with the guidance we've been given and the advice that's out there right now, the confidence of parents and teachers around the country is very low.
The government has suggested the first children to go back will be those in their first year of school, the reception class.
Many are worried that those children will not be able to socially distance and teachers are even looking at doing 'bookless learning', to minimise the risk of infection.
The headteacher of St Mary Redcliffe Primary school in Bristol says the decision whether to send a child back to school or not, is one parents will have to make.
With staggered start times and end times to the school day and social distancing inside the classroom, it'll be a long time before it's anywhere near back to normal.