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Welcome Back

 

5^th January 2022

 

 

Dear Parents and Carers

We hope enjoyed the Christmas Holidays and had some lovely quality family time. We are pleased this week to welcome back all of our children and we wish you all the very best for 2022. I am just writing to send out a reminder of practices in place to mitigate as much as possible against COVID and to update you on slight changes.

 

Further Preventative Measures

The school continues to maintain an enhanced cleaning regime and to ensure ventilation of indoor spaces alongside a comfortable learning environment. Frequent and regular hand cleaning continues to be regular practice in school. Children shall have their hands sanitised by staff members upon entering the school and at regular times during the day.

 

Children with Symptoms

If a child develops COVID-19 symptoms, they should not come into school and should self-isolate. They should get a PCR test to check if they have COVID as soon as possible.

A negative result means it is likely they are not infectious, and they no longer need to self-isolate. If they still feel unwell after a negative test, they should stay at home until they are feeling better. Contact 111 or your GP if symptoms get worse or do not go away. If they develop COVID symptoms after the test, they need to be tested again.

A positive result means they should continue to self-isolate. See below.

Children who Test Positive

If a child tests positive, they should not come into school and should self-isolate. If the positive test is via a LFD, they should seek a confirmatory PCR test.

The self-isolation period includes the day symptoms started (or the day of the test if they have no symptoms) and the next 10 full days. If they develop symptoms while self-isolating, the 10 days restart from the day after the symptoms started.

They can stop self-isolating after 7 days if they do a rapid lateral flow test on days 6 and 7 of the self- isolation period and:

 

• both tests are negative
• they did both tests at least 24 hours apart
• they do not have a high temperature

If either test is positive, they should continue to isolate for the full 10 days. They can stop self-isolating after the 10 days if either:

• they have no symptoms
• they just have a cough or changes to their sense of smell or taste – these can last for weeks after the infection has gone

 

If they have a high temperature after the 10 days, or are feeling unwell, they should keep self-isolating and seek medical advice.

 

 

Close Contacts

If a child lives with or is a close contact of someone with COVID, they do not need to self-isolate if any of the following apply:

• they are fully vaccinated – i.e. 14 days have passed since their final dose of an approved COVID-19 vaccine.
• they are under 18 years and 6 months old.
• they are not able to be vaccinated for medical reasons.
• they are taking part or have taken part in an approved COVID-19 vaccine trial.

However, even if they do not have symptoms, they are still advised to do daily lateral flow tests (1 a day for 7 days) to protect themselves and others from COVID.

If the above conditions do not apply, they should follow the following self-isolation guidance:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isolation-and-treatment/

Thank you in advance for your continued vigilance. We hope that by following the above measures we can ensure the best continuity for our children’s’ education while also keeping everyone safe.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Donna Lee

Head Teacher

 

Last week class 2 entered a colouring competition at Tesco in Chester le Street. All of our lovely pictures are on display in store. But we had amazing news! One of our friends won a prize!

A massive well done to Jake for a beautifully coloured in picture. He won a Tesco gift voucher and a bag full of chocolate! 🍫 we hope you enjoy your prize!!! Super proud of you Jake 🎉

UNCRC Article 31 (leisure, play and culture)

What a fabulous treat we have all had today; our CHRISTMAS PARTY 👍👍👍

We all demonstrated our Rights Respecting Gold attitudes whilst playing party games, dancing and eating party food.

once again, well done to our wonderful children – Merry Christmas everyone 👍

 

UNCRC Article 28 (right to education)

Well done to all our children who have tried their best to access their TT Rockstars in school and at home. Here are this week’s TT Rockstars👍

UNCRC Article 28 – right to education

Thank you all for your £1 donation to charity, the children all looked so festive in their Christmas Jumpers. We enjoyed our Christmas lunch together in the school hall again this year, after doing it in bubbles last year. The Christmas magic is well and truly back!

To add to all of the excitement…. SANTA had been to Nettlesworth and left each and every child a handwritten letter 🙂

 

UNCRC Article 14 (freedom of thought, belief and religion)

Today we had our Christingle service in s school. We were joined by Rev. Michael and all of the children and staff. We recorded it all for you to see at home, as usually we would come together with the whole community in Church for this special service.

 

The children have worked extremely hard to perform a truly wonderful nativity again this year. We enjoyed it so much that we wanted to record it for all of our families to see.

We have sent each household a copy of the DVD but for those who cannot access the footage, please click the link below….

 

Merry Christmas from our school to your home 🙂

Well done Imogen and Evie!

Imogen from class 3, and Evie from class 4 have been given a trophy, certificate and medal for their brilliant dancing.