The Government announced on Friday 26th that families and households with primary school-age children, including childcare and support bubbles, will be able to test themselves twice every week from home as schools return from 8 March.
To help stop the spread of coronavirus and minimise disruption to education, we encourage all families to participate in this testing.
You can get tested in four ways:
Click here to find your local testing site
Order rapid lateral flow home test kits
Click here to find your local testing site
What will I be asked to do if I take the Lateral Flow Test:
Report your test result online or by calling 119.
If anyone tests positive or gets coronavirus symptoms, they should tell the school and:
A negative result means the test did not find signs of coronavirus. But this does not guarantee you do not have coronavirus, so you should keep following all coronavirus advice, including:
Sunday 14th March 20201
We have been advised today of a confirmed case of COVID-19 with a staff member for Ealing Music Service.
The WEDNESDAY violin group has all been identified as close contacts. These children will need to isolate up to and including SATURDAY 20th MARCH 2021.
Close contacts have been identified and contacted by email today. This includes:
All close contact must stay in their house for the duration of the isolation period.
We ask parents to be vigilant during this isolation period and lookout for signs of COVID-19 amongst all family members.
Thursday 4th March 20201
We have been advised today of a confirmed case of COVID-19 within our Early Years bubble. A child has tested positive, and we wish them a speedy recovery.
The Reception Critical Worker Bubble is closed to all pupils. These children will return to school on Friday, 12th March.
Close contacts have been identified and contacted by email today. This includes:
All close contact must stay in their house for the duration of the isolation period.
We ask parents to be vigilant during this isolation period and lookout for signs of COVID-19 amongst all family members.
Monday 1st February 2021 - updated 03.02.21
We have been advised that the Two PCR tests taken on 31.01.21 and the two LFD's taken on the 01.01.21 are now all confirmed unrelated cases of COVID-19 within our Year 6, Year 5, Year 4 and Year 2 bubbles.
Four members of staff have tested positive, and we wish them a speedy recovery. These are unrelated cases.
Year 6, Year 5, Year 4 and Year 2 are closed to all pupils. Children will return to school on Monday, 8th February.
Close contacts have been identified and contacted by email. This includes:
These pupils and staff members will now self-isolate at home for up to 10 days before returning to their usual activities. We all must play our part in reducing the spread of infection in our school and community. Please 'act like you have the virus' and only leave home when you are permitted to do so. Guidance can be found here.
We have been advised today of a confirmed case of COVID-19 within our Year 3 bubble. A child has tested positive, and we wish them a speedy recovery.
No pupils or staff in school have been identified as close contact, so no child or adult needs to self isolate.
We are asking parents of all pupils to be extra vigilant and closely monitor their children for symptoms of COVID-19.
Please take your child temperature regularly - we know children do not suffer greatly, but as they can spread COVID-19 we must all do out bit to help protect all families and staff in our community to stop the spread of the virus.
Detailed emails have been sent to parents of children in the identified bubble and the wider community.
Wednesday 13th January 2021
We have been advised today of a confirmed case of COVID-19 within our Early Years bubble. A child has tested positive, and we wish them a speedy recovery.
Reception Bubble and Nursery Bubble is closed to all pupils. Children will return to school on Monday, 18th January.
Close contacts have been identified and contacted by email today. This includes:
These pupils and staff members will now self-isolate at home for up to 10 days before returning to their usual activities. We all must play our part in reducing the spread of infection in our school and community. Please 'act like you have the virus' and only leave home when you are permitted to do so. Guidance can be found here.
As Coronavirus infection rates in London continue to remain high and rise rapidly, we are asking our school community to help limit the spread of the virus around the end of the term by ensuring that you:
We must know all of the outlined information so that we can:
It is vitally important that parents comply with all of the above over the Christmas period to help protect every family who is planning to make Christmas bubbles.
Part of being a parent means that we must ensure our children attend regularly at school. From 1 September 2020, we return to usual expectations and arrangements for telling us if your child is absent from school.
The government now knows much more about coronavirus (COVID-19) and so in future, there will be far fewer children and young people advised to shield whenever community transmission rates are high. Therefore, the majority of pupils will be able to return to school. You should note however that:
Parents must ensure that their child does not come into school if they have coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms, or have tested positive in the last 7 days.
We will ensure that anyone developing symptoms during the school day is sent home. If anyone in the school becomes unwell with a new, continuous cough or high temperature, or has a loss of or change in their normal sense of taste or smell, they will be sent home. We will expect the child to:
If a child is awaiting collection from school, they will be moved to our Welfare Room (which then becomes our Isolation Room):
Parents should:
Anyone who displays symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) can and should get a test. Tests can be booked online through the NHS testing and tracing for coronavirus website, or ordered by telephone via NHS 119 for those without access to the internet. Essential workers, which includes anyone involved in education or childcare, have priority access to testing.
Parents should tell us immediately of the results of a test:
We will take swift action when we become aware that someone who has attended has tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19). We will take immediate advice from the local health protection team. This team will also contact schools directly if they become aware that someone who has tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) attended the school – as identified by NHS Test and Trace. The health protection team will carry out a rapid risk assessment to confirm who has been in close contact with the person during the period that they were infectious, and ensure they are asked to self-isolate.
If the school has 2 or more confirmed cases within 14 days, or an overall rise in sickness absence where coronavirus (COVID-19) is suspected, there may be an outbreak in our school community.
In some cases, health protection teams may recommend that a larger number of other pupils self-isolate at home as a precautionary measure – perhaps the whole site or year group.
Where transmission risks are minimised, whole school closure based on cases within the school will not generally be necessary, and should not be considered except on the advice of health protection teams.
In consultation with the local Director of Public Health, where an outbreak in a school is confirmed, a mobile testing unit may be dispatched to test others who may have been in contact with the person who has tested positive. Testing will first focus on the person’s class, followed by their year group, then the whole school if necessary, in line with routine public health outbreak control practice.