COVID

For education and childcare settings from Friday 1 April: 

Regular asymptomatic testing is no longer recommended in any education setting. Children who are unwell with symptoms of a respiratory infection should stay at home and avoid contact with other people.

Symptoms of a respiratory infection include:

• continuous cough
• high temperature, fever or chills
• loss of, or change in, your normal sense of taste or smell
• shortness of breath
• unexplained tiredness, lack of energy
• muscle aches or pains that are not due to exercise
• not wanting to eat or not feeling hungry
• headache that is unusual or longer lasting than usual
• sore throat, stuffy or runny nose
• diarrhoea, feeling sick or being sick 

Your child can return to school when they are well enough to attend and no longer have a high temperature (if they had one).

• If your child tests positive for COVID they should stay at home and avoid contact with other people for 3 days following a positive COVID test result. This starts from the day after they did the test. They should continue to stay off school until they have recovered and no longer have a temperature (if they had one).
• Remote learning can only be provided if your child is a confirmed positive COVID case and not for other infectious illnesses such as the common cold etc.
  We will continue to provide remote learning for children who are a confirmed positive COVID case and well enough to complete the work, until the end of the academic year 2022. 

• Free COVID testing for the general public is no longer available. 

REMOTE LEARNING

Details of the school's contingency planning to ensure continuity of education in the event of children being absent from school with a COVID related absence can be found on the school's 'How to Help My Child' Page here.