{"id":24555,"date":"2020-09-09T02:34:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T01:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24555"},"modified":"2020-09-09T02:34:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T01:34:30","slug":"first-post-lockdown-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24555","title":{"rendered":"First Post-Lockdown Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"VirusWell, I had my first post-lockdown test today, and she passed with six driver faults. Well done to her!<\/p>\n

Reading some of the horror stories on social media, I wasn\u2019t sure what to expect when arriving at the test centre. Half of me wouldn\u2019t have been surprised to see armed guards at the gates and outside the waiting room going from some of the (probably embellished) accounts of other people\u2019s tests.<\/p>\n

Arriving in the car park five minutes (as clearly requested on the DVSA emails) before we were due, it was clear that alternate bays were coned-off to facilitate distancing. So we reverse-parked into one of them. Or rather I did from the passenger seat, since the pupil\u2019s nerves meant she\u2019d picked one with a cone in it, and with five minutes to play with there wasn\u2019t time to piss about. She also wanted the loo.<\/p>\n

On approaching the waiting room for the toilet, an examiner came to the door and opened it manually so she could go into the foyer, and no questions asked. The examiners are using the usual waiting room as an office so they<\/strong> can distance properly, and it is off limits to instructors.<\/p>\n

One odd thing was that the pupil had to sign some sort of paper to say they were covered by insurance. Never experienced that before – and the paper was left in the car at the end of the test! The examiner wiped a few surfaces down before he got in, which is DVSA policy according to emails and the sign on the waiting room windows. I have no problem with that whatsoever, since examiners have no idea of who and what is turning up to test. In my case, I use a fogging machine to sanitise my car daily, and all my pupils that I\u2019m currently teaching know my own isolating requirements (two have cancelled in the last week, one because she was unwell, but is OK now and it was just a sickness bug, and another is out of circulation for two weeks because his sister works at a school which has just had two positive COVID-19 tests, and although she has tested negative she still has to isolate). I noted that the test involved a satnav.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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