Covid Update:
Yesterday the DfE published its operational guidance and contingency framework for schools, and the LA set out its guidance for maintained schools today until 1st April. From this we have set out our systems for the remainder of the spring term which you can find below. Please also click here for a letter from the local authority detailing their information for parents of children in maintained schools.
1. In school systems will remain the same until the end of term but will be reviewed weekly using national and local data. Should local data reduce to the lower national level then we may reintroduce further inside mixing and activities.
This includes:
a). Staff wearing masks in communal areas and when entering the work/learning spaces of others.
b). One-way system for drop off and collection.
c). Maintaining distancing when moving around the premises to reduce transmission.
d). Only visitors who support curriculum and special needs provision, or to carryout essential premises work, will be allowed in the building.
e). No planned indoor events.
2. In line with the DfE/UKHSA: "a pupil with the key symptoms of COVID-19 should not attend the school, given the potential risk to others". Pupils with a confirmed case of Covid, "should not attend school while infectious and should take an LFD test from 5 days after their symptoms started (or the day their test was taken if they did not have symptoms) followed by another one the next day. If both test results are negative, they should return to their school if they normally attend one, as long as they feel well enough to do so and do not have a temperature."
3. If a child has Covid symptoms we will ask you to collect them and take them for a test. The LA request that a PCR is taken to support data gathering to understand the national and local situations.
4. Where there is a confirmed or suspected case of COVID-19, we are able to refuse entry to school to protect other pupils and staff from possible infection with COVID-19.
