Today marks the next step in the Government’s “Living with Covid-19” plan. Testing and isolation rules have changed.
As with any respiratory infection, children should stay at home and only return to school when they are better.
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
Children who are unwell and have a high temperature should stay at home and avoid contact with other people, where they can. They can come back to school and resume normal activities when they no longer have a high temperature and they are well enough to attend.
If your child displays any of the above symptoms the office will contact you to come and collect your child.
Children with mild symptoms such as a runny nose, sore throat, or slight cough, who are otherwise well, can continue to attend school.
If a child has a positive COVID-19 test result they should try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for 3 days after the day they took the test, if they can. After 3 days, if they feel well and do not have a high temperature, the risk of passing the infection on to others is much lower. This is because children and young people tend to be infectious to other people for less time than adults.
Children who live with someone who has a positive COVID-19 test result should continue to attend as normal.
At school, preventative measures such as regular hand sanitisation and increased ventilation will continue.