St Anne's Catholic Primary School

Thank you for working with us to try and keep our community as safe as possible. It is critical that everyone is extra vigilant to symptoms of the virus. Here is a reminder of the symptoms to look out for, including the less common ones:   

Most common symptoms: fever (37.8C and above or a new high temperature where your child feels hot to touch on their chest or back), dry cough, tiredness, loss of taste or smell   

Less common symptoms: aches and pains, sore throat, diarrhoea, conjunctivitis, headache, a rash on the skin, mouth ulcers or discolouration of fingers or toes 

If your child develops any of the main symptoms, you should book a test https://www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test. You can phone 119 if you cannot access the internet. The household and support bubble must self-isolate. You must notify your childcare bubble and the appropriate people should isolate too.

Please do not send your child into school and inform us as soon as possible via the school office (8am – 4:30pm) or covid@stannes-school.uk (evenings and weekends). If your child develops any of the less common symptoms, you should consider booking a test or seek advice from 111 as soon as possible.

If any member of a household has been advised to take a test, the whole household must isolate.

If a positive case is confirmed, please contact the school immediately. Your child should stay at home for at least 10 days from the onset of symptoms and only return to school when they are well. Children should be fever free for 48 hours. They may continue to have a cough or changes to their sense of smell or taste – these can last for weeks after the infection has gone. 

Providing they are well enough, children waiting for a test or self-isolating will be provided with home learning (please see our remote learning plan). Children will be asked to complete Day One Isolation Activities (under remote learning) and move to using Google Classrom (Year 1 - 6) or ClassDojo (Reception) from day 2. The class teacher will contact you as soon as possible to ensure you understand how to access the home learning.

If a negative case is confirmed, your child is well and no longer has symptoms similar to coronavirus, they can return to school. 

Thank you for your support.

Please see this video link advising how to administer a test.

On our Well-being  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

The children really enjoyed using ClassDojo for their remote learning in the Summer term. We are continuing to use ClassDojo for home learning for children in Reception. To access ClassDojo please follow the link sent to you by the class teacher or visit classdojo.com if you have already logged in. 

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