Covid 19: Learning and Support

Covid update

As you will be aware, the legal requirements changed last week. There is now no legal requirement to self-isolate. The advice and guidance, however, has remained the same if people display symptoms (lateral flow on days 5 and 6; return if negative), so we now have a grey area between what we must do, and what we should do. Twice weekly asymptomatic testing is also no longer advised, and we will not (as things currently stand) get further large resupplies of lateral flow tests.

You can read the full guidance here, but it might be easier to answer one simple question: ‘do I feel unwell?’. If the answer is yes, then please do not come to school, but if the answer is no, then please do.

After two years of the pandemic, we realise that it will take some families time to adjust to the new strategy of living with Covid, and there may also be families whose personal circumstances make it unwise to change yet. For those who prefer to stick to the old system of regular testing, regardless of symptoms, we will support that decision, and we will carry on handing out boxes of lateral flow tests for as long as our stocks last. These are available from year teams.