A primary headteacher has written to parents urging them not to send their children back to school on 1 June because social distancing is “impossible”.

Howard Fisher, head of St George’s Church of England Primary School in Sheerness, Kent, says he would “rather a child repeats the year” than die.

The government’s plan is to send reception, year one and year six pupils in England back on 1 June.

But Mr Fisher wrote: “I can be truthful here and categorically tell you there is no such thing as social distancing in a school; it does not exist and would never exist.

“The reason childhood illnesses spread in a school is we are all in contact with each other. I can put two children in opposite classrooms and they will still get chicken pox because that’s how it is in a school. This virus we are led to believe is a super spreader.”

The government’s 50-page COVID-19 recovery strategy advises schools in England to stagger break, drop-off and pick-up times, reduce class sizes to just 15 and create one-way systems to avoid pupil-to-pupil contact. Teachers will not be offered PPE.

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