Primary school pupil Lilly Hemelryk has had to isolate for the fourth time this academic year despite testing negative herself.
The 11-year-old's latest quarantine was due to end on Friday – but yesterday she was told it had been extended from ten to 14 days because someone else in her bubble had tested positive for coronavirus.
Lilly said it has made her 'really annoyed' because she just wants to spend the last few weeks of the term uninterrupted with her friends before she starts secondary school in September.
Lilly Hemelryk, an only child, lives in Hove, East Sussex, with her parents Joy Persaud, 51, and Simon Hemelryk, 48, both self-employed writers
She said: 'I just want to be able to enjoy it without any "oh, you must be sent home now".
'I understand it because obviously we need to keep safe and make sure we are not spreading the virus but I just find it really annoying.'
Lilly, an only child, lives in Hove, East Sussex, with her parents Joy Persaud, 51, and Simon Hemelryk, 48, both self-employed writers.
Miss Persaud said: 'It's difficult to know the impact on their schooling because it's unprecedented.
The 11-year-old's latest quarantine was due to end on Friday – but yesterday she was told it had been extended from ten to 14 days because someone else in her bubble had tested positive for coronavirus (stock image)
'But I can't see how it can do good to keep having ten days off. My main argument is, if someone is ill, fine keep them off school. But you can't have healthy children home off school.'
She was 'very frustrated' on behalf of Lilly and other pupils in the same position, adding: 'This time is precious, they are meant to be doing things that have been postponed for over a year now and it just seems incredibly unfair.
'We keep hearing children are resilient and that they will cope but has anyone stopped to look at what it is actually doing to the children?'