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Coronavirus guidance
Advice if students (and staff) display symptoms of coronavirus (Covid-19)
If your child develops symptoms of Covid-19, they must not come to school and should remain at home for at least 10 days from the date when their symptoms appeared. Anyone with symptoms will be eligible for testing and this can be arranged via https://www.nhs.uk/ask-for-a-coronavirus-test or by calling 119.
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All other household members who remain well, must stay at home and not leave the house for 14 days. This includes anyone in your ‘Support Bubble’.
Further information is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-stay-at-home-guidance/stay-at-homeguidance-for-households-with-possible-coronavirus-covid-19-infection
The 14-day period starts from the day when the first person in the house became ill.
Household members should not go to work, school or public areas and exercise should be taken within the home.
If you require help with buying groceries, other shopping or picking up medication, or walking a dog, you should ask friends or family. Alternatively, you can order your shopping online and medication by phone or online.
Household members staying at home for 14 days will greatly reduce the overall amount of infection the household could pass on to others in the community.
If you are able, move any vulnerable individuals (such as the elderly and those with underlying health conditions) out of your home, to stay with friends or family for the duration of the home isolation period.
Symptoms
The most common symptoms of coronavirus (Covid-19) are recent onset of: a new continuous cough(this is defined as coughing a lot for more than an hour, or have three or more coughing episodes in 24 hours), a high temperature (above 37.8C), a loss of, or change in, your normal sense of taste or smell (anosmia)
For most people, coronavirus (Covid-19) will be a mild illness.
If your child does develop symptoms, you can seek advice from the nhs.uk website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/check-if-you-have-coronavirus-symptoms/. If you are concerned about your child’s symptoms, or they are worsening you can seek advice from NHS 111 at https://111.nhs.uk/ or by phoning 111.
How to stop Covid-19 spreading
There are things you can do to help reduce the risk of you and anyone you live with getting ill with Covid-19: Do wash your hands with soap and water often – do this for at least 20 seconds use hand sanitiser gel if soap and water are not available
wash your hands as soon as you get home cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or your sleeve (not your hands) when you cough or sneeze put used tissues in the bin immediately and wash your hands afterwards.
Further information is available at https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
Public Health have advised:
As schools and colleges across England return, students may feel unwell for example with a sore throat, aches and pains, a stomach upset, a runny nose, tiredness or a headache. If students have these symptoms (without the temperature, continuous cough or loss of smell symptom), then they don’t need to have a test.
The decision as to whether or not they come to school or stay at home should be taken as you would do in normal times (they are not required to stay off school).
Where a child has a sickness bug, as always, they must be kept off school for 48 hours.
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Keeping up with learning during absence
It is always important for students to try to keep up with learning if absent from school. It is fair to say that the risk of absence will probably be greater this year than under normal circumstances. We have plans in place to support students who need to be absent from school during COVID 19.
If a student has to be at home due to displaying COVID symptoms, or because a family member is displaying symptoms we have put together ‘Always be Doing’ lists for students in KS3 and 4. These comprise of lists of work that students can work through for each subject. These are wide ranging but commonly include activities that will help students to review and consolidate earlier learning. Many of the activities and resources for the always be doing work can be found on our ‘All Users’ area, which students can access from the school website. Students have been shown how to access this. Students can also keep abreast of what’s happening in class and what has been set for homework by logging in to Show My Homework. We are emphasising work set on Show My Homework to sixth form students and encouraging them to support each other in ensuring they keep up to date by sending lesson notes and instructions if required to absent classmates. Parents and carers can find more information by visiting our website; our Key Stage 3 and 4 curriculum guides and post 16 prospectus outline content and can be found in the Key Information section.
If we do have to ask a whole year group to stay at home for a period of time due to a confirmed COVID case within the year group we currently plan to switch to remote learning during timetabled lesson time.
Meanwhile we are stressing the importance of every minute that we have in the classroom. We love having our students back in school, and doing what we enjoy doing best – teaching them in our classrooms, workshops, sports halls and studios. They have really impressed us with their desire to get on with learning. Long may this continue – fingers crossed in school, but should this not be possible at any time their desire to learn will be extra important in making a success of keeping up from home.
Guide for students accessing information if self-isolating
For any students self-isolating please see the guide below on how to access your school email account, VLE (virtual learning environment) and SMHW (Show My Homework) from the school website.
All resources and communication between school and students will be via these platforms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7oWZnLde9I&feature=youtu.be
The Department for Education coronavirus (COVID-19) helpline is available to answer questions about COVID-19 relating to education and children’s social care. Staff, parents/carers and young people can contact this helpline by calling 0800 046 8687. Opening hours are Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm.
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