Local schools are preparing for a full return to school on 3 September. Year groups and their teachers will be in one “bubble”, enabling children in their year groups to mix but each year group to be separate. At Tylers Green Middle School, for instance, there will be two staff rooms and children will eat lunch in their classroom. Parents are not allowed into the school and must not congregate outside.
Local pubs have appealed to customers not to book a table for dining and then just not show up. Pubs are having to make special arrangements in their kitchens to cope with virus restrictions.
Tylers Green Village Hall will reopen on 7 September with coronavirus restrictions in place. The toilets and the foyer will not be available for public use. The autumn scouts jumble sale and Holy Trinity/St Margaret’s Harvest supper – both due to be held in the hall in the autumn, – have been cancelled.
Live entertainment returns to the Horse and Jockey, Tylers Green on Sunday (16 August) with music by The Laughing Ants on the”poop deck” outside. The pub’s quiz nights resume on 3 September.
Local theatres, including the Swan at Wycombe and Waterside at Aylesbury, are still hoping to put on one-night productions from the end of September, albeit with reduced capacity. Negotiations are ongoing with pantomime producers over the viability of this year’s pantos. The Elgiva at Chesham opened last month, showing the film Parasite. Volunteer ushers and theatre staff applauded the face-masked audience members as they made their way to well-spaced seating.
After five months Buckinghamshire hospitals have slightly eased restrictions on patients receiving visitors. It means that, generally, a patient can receive one visitor, once a day for one hour from Monday to Friday.
The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the area continues to fall. Last week there were six in the Wycombe area, four in the Amersham area and six in the Beaconsfield area. The total number of deaths of people with the virus in the three south Bucks regions is 201.
The Wycombe Lions Club charity, which included a number of members from the village, has folded because coronavirus restrictions, coupled with the increasing age of many of its members, means it is unrealistic to carry on.
A number of local referees have halved their match fees for pre-season friendlies to help small football clubs in the area hit by lack of income.
