Dear Parents/ Carers,

If your child develops any of the symptoms below over the weekend please email school by 10am on Saturday, Sunday or Monday ([email protected]) for track and trace purposes. After this you do not need to let us know until we re-open on Tuesday 8th June.

The main symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) are:

• a high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)
• a new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)
• a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste – this means you’ve noticed you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal

If you have any of these symptoms, get a PCR test at a testing centre (test that is sent to a lab) to check if you have coronavirus and stay at home until you get your result.

The Lateral Flow rapid tests are not to be used by people displaying symptoms and under the age of 11. Your child will need a PCR test.

Thank you.