Oaklands School COVID 19 responses

A Quick Guide for Parents

What to do if….

Action Needed

Return to school when….

My child has COVID symptoms:

High Temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back

A New Continuous Cough – this means coughing a lot more than an hour or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours.

A Loss or Change to your Sense of Smell/ Taste – this means you have noticed you can’t smell or taste anything.

• DO NOT COME TO SCHOOL
• Contact school to inform us
• Isolate the whole household for 14 days
• Get a Covid test
• INFORM SCHOOL IMMEDIATELY OF TEST RESULTS.

You have sent a negative test result to office@oaklands.leicester.sch.uk

The Headteacher will respond to advise you that you can send your child back to school. Please do not send your child in before you have received the headteacher’s response.

My child tests positive for COVID 19

• DO NOT COME TO SCHOOL
• Contact school to inform us.
• Agree earliest date possible for return – Minimum of 10 days.
• Self - isolate the whole household for 14 days.
• Bubble isolates/remote learning.

The Headteacher says it is safe to do so

They can return on the agreed date even if they have a cough or loss of taste/smell. These symptoms can last for several weeks.

My child tests negative for COVID 19

• CONTACT THE SCHOOL
• Discuss when your child can come back to school (Usually the next day)

You have sent a negative test result to office@oaklands.leicester.sch.uk

The Headteacher will respond to advise you that you can send your child back to school. Please do not send your child in before you have received the headteacher’s response.

My child is ill with symptoms not linked to COVID 19

Follow the school’s usual absence procedures

After 48 hours following the last bout of sickness/

diarrhoea if this is the cause of absence.

Someone in my household has COVID 19 Symptoms

• DO NOT COME TO SCHOOL
• Contact school to inform us.
• Isolate the whole household for 14 days.
• Household members to get tested.
• INFORM SCHOOL IMMEDIATELY OF TEST RESULTS.

You have sent that person’s negative test result to office@oaklands.leicester.sch.uk

The Headteacher will respond to advise you that you can send your child back to school. Please do not send your child in before you have received the headteacher’s response.

Someone in my household tests positive for COVID 19

• DO NOT COME TO SCHOOL
• Contact school to inform us.
• Agree earliest date possible for return – Minimum of 14 days.

The child has completed 14 days of isolation and if they have no symptoms

NHS test and trace has identified my child has been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID 19

• DO NOT COME TO SCHOOL
• Contact school to inform us
• Agree earliest date possible for return – Minimum of 14 days

The child has completed 14 days of isolation and if they have no symptoms

We/my child has travelled and has to self-isolate as a period of quarantine.

• Do not take unauthorised leave in term time.
• Consider quarantine requirements and FCO advice when booking travel
• If returning from a destination where quarantine is required, the HT will agree the earliest date possible for return
• Self -isolate the whole household

The quarantine period has been completed and if the child has no symptoms

We have received medical advice that my child must resume shielding.

• DO NOT COME TO SCHOOL
• Contact school to inform us.
• Shield until you are informed that restrictions are lifted and shielding has finished

School informs you that restrictions have been lifted and your child can return to school.

My child’s bubble is closed due to COVID 19 outbreak in school.

• DO NOT COME TO SCHOOL
• At home, support your child with the remote learning materials provided by school.
• Your child will need to isolate for 14 days.

School will inform you when the bubble will be reopened