Coronavirus - Level One

Feeling Sick - Stay at Home

If a student comes to school with any of the following symptoms:

• a cough

• a high temperature (at least 38°C)

• shortness of breath.

• sore throat

• sneezing and runny nose

• temporary loss of smell

Expect a call from us to come and pick them up and take them home.

We would then encourage them to get tested for COVID 19 as soon as possible.

To arrange a test please contact Healthline on 0800 358 5453, you can also contact your GP.

• There should be no cost for a COVID 19 test.

• Results should be available within 24-72 hours, these will be given by a member of the public health team or by your GP.

• Anyone tested needs to stay in self-isolation until results have been given. We would advise that siblings do the same.

• If your child tests positive please inform us immediately.

• Further advice from the Ministry of Health is that any child with any respiratory symptoms should be tested and stay at home until the results are through. If negative they should stay at home until 48-hours without symptoms.

It is important for us to look after each other by staying at home if unwell.

For our parents, whanau and caregivers please read below.

• Start of the Day: We would love to see our children continue to come in on their own (except the very new five-year-olds who may need support at the start). This encourages self-responsibility and independence. It builds their confidence and awareness of looking after themselves, which is important in their journey towards becoming mature young people.

• End of the Day: Parents are welcome to meet their children, waiting outside the classroom at the end of the day.

We will continue with...

• Hand sanitising stations - this keeps the high standard of hygiene that is a good practice to help us reduce the spread of the usual winter bugs.

• Signing in - we still expect all adults on-site to sign in at the office with our VisTab digital sign-in system.

• Screens - these will remain up in the office and library as they are a good practice keeping our staff safe.