St Anne's Catholic Primary School

COVID-19 Update (1^st April)

Thank you to everyone for your support with our protocols this term. COVID-19 still poses a risk to many of us, particularly with case rates and hospitalisations on the rise.

Government guidance has been updated and we now move to the ‘Living with COVID’ stage.

If your child has symptoms of a respiratory infection, such as COVID-19, and they have a high temperature or do not feel well enough to go to school, they are advised to stay at home and avoid contact with other people, especially with anyone who is deemed to be higher risk.

Symptoms of COVID-19, flu and common respiratory infections include:

• continuous cough
• high temperature, fever or chills
• loss of, or change in, your normal sense of taste or smell
• shortness of breath
• unexplained tiredness, lack of energy
• muscle aches or pains that are not due to exercise
• not wanting to eat or not feeling hungry
• headache that is unusual or longer lasting than usual
• sore throat, stuffy or runny nose
• diarrhoea, feeling sick or being sick

If your child has taken a COVID-19 test for any reason and tests positive, they should stay at home and avoid contact with other people for 3 days after the day they took the test. The risk of passing the infection on to others is much lower after 3 days, if they feel well and do not have a high temperature. For adults, they should avoid contact with others for 5 days after the day they took the test.

Children can return to school when they are well and no longer have a high temperature.

We will continue to ensure good ventilation in classrooms, remind children to ‘catch it, bin it, kill it’ and further ensure good hygiene through handwashing and regular cleaning.

Please inform us if your child is unwell via the school office.
 

Masks

In line with guidance, you may be required to wear a mask if you are invited into any of the school buildings (an enclosed space). Please continue to ring or email the school office to help with any queries. The office will invite you into the building if needed.

Arrival and Departures

We will continue with our one-way system at the end of the day. This is for safety reasons and to further avoid clogging up Holly Lane with cars. Please remember to park away from the school.

If you are late collecting your child, please buzz at the Court Road gate. Your child will be brought out to you.

Thank you for your ongoing support. It is much appreciated. 

On our Wellbeing  page, there are some ideas and resources that can help support your child's well-being and mental health, as well as offer a positive approach to your family’s well-being and mental health.

At St Anne's, we work hard to provide a safe and welcoming environment where all children are respected and valued  and we remain committed to ensuring that our children and families feel supported. 

Please remember in the first instance, if you have any concerns, please contact your class teacher via teachers@stannes-school.uk. 

If you have a safeguarding concern, please contact Mrs S Smith, Miss Renaut, Mrs Spencer or Mrs Harvey (the safeguarding team). You can also email dsl@stannes-school.uk. 

Have a look on our Safeguarding & Support page to find some useful links that may provide further support.

Visitor Protocol - September 2020

We have an obligation to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of everyone on the St Anne’s Catholic Primary School site. We hold the prime responsibility for ensuring the safety of our children, staff, parents and carers, guests and visitors, contractors and delivery services.

During this time however, we are minimising the amount of people on our site. We are restricting this to professionals such as therapists and specialist teachers along with peripatetic teachers, contractors and delivery services.

We are implementing the following regulations to help ensure that we maintain a COVID-secure environment for all.

Prior to arrival

Please discuss with the member of staff you are meeting with whether your meeting could be facilitated virtually. If it can, please avoid visiting.

If not, you must make an appointment with the person you wish to see. Please call or email the school office at info@stannes-school.uk or if it is SEN related, please email sen@stannes-school.uk to make arrangements.

Please note the following:

• All those requiring an appointment will be asked if they have visited any countries not included on the travel corridor list within the last 14 days. If so quarantine rules will be applied.
• If you or anyone in your household is displaying symptoms of COVID-19 or is currently residing in a locally ‘locked down’ area, then you must not visit the school.

​On arrival

When you arrive at the main school gate, you will be welcomed by one of our office team.  They will ask you if you have any of the following COVID-19 symptoms:

• a high temperature, (your temperature will be taken);
• a new, continuous cough;
• a loss of, or change to, your sense of smell or taste.

If you have any symptoms, you will not be allowed on the school site, and you will need to book an appointment for another time after the 14-day isolation period.

You will be asked to wash or sanitise your hands as necessary during your visit.

A member of our office staff, the leadership team or our site manager will sign you in. We will ask for a phone number by which you can be contacted should the need to inform NHS Test & Trace arise.

Visitors must bring a face mask or covering and wear it as required. If you should forget one, we will provide you with one.

Visitors must maintain a safe distance, ideally two metres+ or at least 1 metre+, from other people at all times.

During your visit

Visitors are to remain two metres apart from all other staff and pupils, when moving around the site and, if taking a seat during your visit, you should be positioned 2m apart from those in the same room. 

If you are working with a child and or adult in a room, there will be cleaning products and hand gel available for you to use before you begin working, during this time and when your visit finishes.

If you wish to use the toilet facilities while on-site, a member of staff will direct to where you need to go. The toilets are located in the entrance to Court House.

Where possible, please refrain from touching surfaces during your visit. 

If you remain within school for more than one hour, please ensure you wash your hands regularly in accordance with our school risk assessment.

Printable copy

Risk Assessment March 2021

If you have any questions regarding our COVID procedures, please speak to your child's class teacher.

However, we thought it would be helpful to have a bank of some of our frequently asked questions, click here. 

Remote Learning Contingency Plan

Year Group Day One Isolation Activities

Useful websites by subject to support Home Learning

Children in Years 1 - 6 have been working on Google Classroom both at home and in school. In the event that a child should need to work from home, all their remote learning will be here.

To access Google Classroom, please visit classroom.google.com The children should have a username and password to log in.

For further help with logging in and submitting work, please read this.

Our Google Classroom code of conduct is here. 

In Reception, the children were accessing their live sessions via Zoom. In the event of a bubble closure, the link to these sessions will be sent by the teachers.

Please make sure you have read the Code of Conduct to your child found here.