St Anne's Catholic Primary School

COVID-19 Update 

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.