NHS Test and Trace

As stated on the previous page, if you have Covid-19 symptoms, you must get tested promptly. While the School may be able to assist with this, the test should be done through the national scheme.

While your test result is pending, you must not attend School, even if you are no longer symptomatic, or have not been symptomatic at all.

If you are in household isolation (because another family member has experienced symptoms and/or tested positive), you must isolate for the full ten days. Even if you test negative, you must not return to School within this period. This is in line with Government advice.

Once you receive your test result, whether positive or negative, you must send evidence to the School via absence@qebarnet.co.uk. This could be as a forwarded email, a screenshot of a text message etc.

In the case of a positive test, whether PCR (the type sent off to a laboratory) or LFD (done at School and home), contact tracing must be done as necessary. The School will be able to support efforts to identify your close contacts. The codified seating plans in each lesson will aid tracing. You must cooperate fully with Government tracers and must isolate if asked to do so by a tracer.

A suspected or confirmed case at School does not necessarily mean that others will be sent home en masse: the School, Barnet’s Public Health team and national tracers will advise.