Government guidance about changes to how schools will live and work with COVID-19 came into effect on the 1 April:
Remote learning for pupils at home ended on 1 April. As a result, teachers will stop setting assignments in DB Primary or Google Classroom.
If we have a whole school closure for any reason or have to close a class or year group, we will return to remote learning for pupils at home while we are closed.
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:
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.