THE Bewdley School says they may reach a point where it becomes "impossible" to offer full education to all students in the coming days and weeks.

In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, the school has confirmed that six teachers are in self-isolation, which they say is likely to double within the next few days.

In a statement the school said: "It is our intention to continue to offer full education to all of our students for as long as we can. However, we may well reach a point within the next days and weeks where this becomes impossible for Health and Safety and quality of educational provision reasons.

"Our contingency plan is to reduce our educational offer using a staged approach in response to teacher absence.

"We would first have to close down the curriculum for Year 7 and ask those students to stay at home.

"We would then have to do so for year 8 and so on. Each year group not taught will free up between 6 and 8 teachers to cover absent colleagues.

"We currently have 100 students absent and 56 self-isolating (this does not count as official absence).

"Please note that all self-isolation is precautionary, and at this stage there are no confirmed cases of Covid19 associated with the school.

"We will delay this measure until we have no alternative, but we are writing to you to give plenty of advanced notice.

"Thank you for your support in working with us to follow government recommendations, to reduce the spread of this pandemic in our population."