St Anne's Catholic Primary School

Thank you for working with us to try and keep our community as safe as possible.

We would like to remind you that the main symptoms linked to COVID-19 are:

• a high temperature (37.8C and above or a new high temperature where your child feels hot to touch on their chest or back)
• a new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot, for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours
• a loss or change to sense of smell or taste -  you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal

If your child develops symptoms, do not send them to school and inform us as soon as possible. Siblings must be kept at home too. Despite the current difficulties with the test and trace system, you must try to get a test for your child https://www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test. You can phone 119 if you cannot access the internet. The household must self-isolate.

If a positive case is confirmed, please contact the school immediately via the school office. Out-of-hours, please email covid@stannes-school.uk. Your child should stay at home for at least ten days from the onset of symptoms and only return to school when symptoms have gone. Children should be fever free for 48 hours. Other members of the household should continue self-isolating for the full 14 days.

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

Providing they are well enough, children waiting for a test or self-isolating will be provided with home learning. The first day’s learning can be found on our website under COVID-19, Remote Learning, Year Group Day One Isolation Activities. These are tasks the children will be able to get on with straight away. The class teacher will contact you as soon as possible for learning activities after the first day.

The Department of Education Coronavirus Helpline is available to answer questions about coronavirus (COVID-19) relating to education and children’s social care: 0800 046 8687.  Opening hours: Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm.  Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 4pm.

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.

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Updated November school risk assessment

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. All their 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.