Covid: Almost half of Kirkintilloch school's pupils absent during surge

Almost half of pupils at an East Dunbartonshire secondary school were absent on Tuesday due to Covid.

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The BBC understands more than 400 did not attend St Ninian's in Kirkintilloch which has a school roll of 850.

East Dunbartonshire Council confirmed one school had a high absence rate and families had adopted a "cautious approach".

The EIS union said it was an indication of the high levels of Covid in the community.

Scotland's Covid cases have been surging in the last week, with 6,029 new cases reported on Tuesday and seven further deaths.

Case numbers have doubled in a week and the deputy first minister, John Swinney, said the surge was partly being fuelled by the return of schools after the summer holidays.

Andrene Bamford, the vice president of the EIS teachers' union and local secretary for East Dunbartonshire, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime programme that the school had been heavily affected.

She said: "Last week we had a report that there were about 328 absences across the week due to Covid and something like 25 incidents of teachers having to be absent.

"This week numbers have increased even more and that has resulted in one particular school with a high absence rate this week.

"St Ninian's High School had 405 pupils off, which is 45% of the overall roll of the school. Obviously they won't all be because of Covid but it is an indication of the high levels in the community just now."

She said that teachers had been posting lessons online for those who were unable to attend school but that this was not an acceptable situation.