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• Staff Testing - COVID-19

  Thu 28 Jan 2021
  Staff Testing - COVID-19

   

  You may or may not be aware that starting from next week, all staff will be invited to regularly complete a COVID-19 test. We will test twice a week on a Sunday and Wednesday evening. If a member of staff’s result is negative, this will not change the operation of school. However, should a member of staff test positive then I am afraid this could impact a group (bubble) of children in school who will need to isolate and switch to remote learning straight away. I know receiving a message at such short-notice may prove problematic and many of our critical workers will be dreading an email on a Sunday or a Wednesday evening but the purpose of these tests is to detect asymptomatic Covid cases so that we can take them out of the transmission chain.

   

  Staff will be using Lateral Flow Tests (LFTs) and current guidance states that a positive LFT result requires a confirmatory Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test. There is a possibility that a member of staff could test positive using a LFT and the class closes but then tests negative using the PCR test. Guidance states that classes would then reopen in this scenario - we will keep all parents fully informed.

  Thank you for your continued support.

   

  Kind regards,

   

  Mr Gaughan

  Deputy Headteacher

• School Closure 5th January 2021

  Mon 04 Jan 2021

  Dear Parents,

  Following Government instruction tonight at 8pm, Primary Schools are having to move to remote learning .

  Therefore school will be closed to ALL children tomorrow to allow staff time to set up remote learning, gather registers of vulnerable and key worker status, distribute materials and reading books to the children

  Staff will be onsite tomorrow to receive any queries by phone or email,

  The school sessions will resume from Wednesday morning at 8:45am in the first instance for vulnerable and key worker children only

   

  Please can parents who are key workers, please provide school with their shift pattern, evidence of their work status so we can allocate a place for your child and ensure safe staffing levels.

  Vulnerable children will be notified by phone tomorrow

  I am extremely sorry for the short notice, but the announcement has come very late in the day. 

   

  We are trying to communicate this information to parents via our usual texting and email service but the system is currently crashing due to high demand and traffic from all schools nationwide.

  Mrs Monaghan