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Information on Test, Trace and Protect for Parents

Mrs. M. Teague Leave a comment

 

Test, Trace and Protect (TTP) Overview

 Information for Staff/Parents/Guardians.

 

The following information will set out what to expect in the event of a phone call from a member of the TTP team.

You may be contacted by us if you/a minor in your family are:

  • A case (i.e. you have tested positive for coronavirus)

OR

  • A contact –is defined as a person who has had contact with the case in the period 48 hours prior to, and 10 days after the confirmed case’s symptom onset or specimen collection date (where case has no symptoms). These are the different types of contacts:

 

Household contact: Those that are living or spending significant time in the same household e.g. those that live and sleep in the same home. Other scenarios would include accommodation settings that share a kitchen/bathroom. Further inclusions are people who have cleaned a household/carer where a case lives without personal protective equipment etc.

 

Non- household contact:

Direct contact: Face to face contact with a case for any length of time, including being coughed on or talked to. This includes exposure within 1 metre for 1 minute or longer.

Proximity contact: Extended close contact (within 1 to 2 metres for more than 15 minutes) with a case or travelled in a small vehicle with a case.

Aeroplane contacts of cases returning from exempted countries): Passengers sitting within two seats in every direction (i.e. the 2 seats either side, and then then 2 rows in front and behind of these seat) and cabin crew serving the area where the case was seated.

International travellers: All international travellers are considered       contacts, except from those returning from countries on an exemption list. This applied even if they are not known to have had household or non-household contact with a case.

 

The Phone Call

  • Calls will mainly come from this number: 02921 961133. On occasions it may be necessary for our staff to use an alternative number.
  • If you miss a call from the service, you will be called again. It is important that you answer calls from the NHS Wales Test, Trace, Protect Service promptly. You will not receive a voicemail, but if you ring the number back you will hear a message confirming that you were called by the NHS Wales Test, Trace, Protect service. Calls from this number are outbound only, so you will not be able to speak to a contact tracer and will need to wait for a call back later or possibly the following day.

 

Information that will be gathered over the phone

  • We will need to know where they live and who they live with i.e. household contacts.
  • We will need to know where a case has been in their infectious period and who they will have had contact with.
  • This will include school contacts and social contacts. The relevant school will also be contacted. The nature of the contact will be explored, and it will be important to identify if the contact was a household, direct or proximity contact.
  • Symptoms and the onset of symptoms or date of positive test if asymptomatic (no symptoms). We will need to know if the person has been to the shops, to school, to work, pubs/restaurants, parties, café’s and canteens etc. This information will enable us to identify clusters.
  • We will need to know what classes at school they have attended.
  • How the case goes to school e.g. bus/taxi/car/walks with friends.
  • Any other relevant questions relating to where they have been/who they have seen during specific dates when infectious.

 

 

What you WON’T be asked

  • Contact tracers will not ask for any financial information, bank details, passwords or any other data other than information detailed above as part of the contact tracing process.
  • If there are any doubts, then you should not provide the information.
  • People should be vigilant for any signs of cyber security, spoofing, phishing or fraud.

For more information see staying alert to scams.

 

Further Information…..

For further, constantly updated information, refer to:

https://gov.wales/coronavirus

Contained in the document above is more specific guidance in different situations.

 

Stay at home if you or anyone in your extended household has symptoms:

  • a high temperature
  • a new, continuous cough
  • loss of smell or taste (anosmia)

Where any/all these symptoms are apparent – get tested…

For information on how to obtain a test, see:

https://sbuhb.nhs.wales/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-covid-19/test-trace-protect/

For further information on employers’ responsibilities to help with coronavirus testing and contact tracing please go to the following link.

https://gov.wales/employers-coronavirus-test-trace-protect-guidance

 

 

Keep Wales Safe

  • always observe social distancing
  • wash your hands regularly
  • if you meet another household, outside your extended household, stay outdoors
  • work from home if you can

September Update.

Mrs. M. Teague Leave a comment

Friday September 11th

Dear Parent,

Thank you all for your support this week in helping us to welcome back the pupils safely. The pupils have all been excellent at adapting to the new hand washing routines, staggered breaks and staggered dinner times.

Our staggered starts have helped us to allow the children to enter into school safely.  However several concerns have been raised by staff and parents over the crowding on the pavements in the morning particularly at the infant end of the school.  I appreciate that the space around the school is limited however you need to help us by ensuring that your child arrives at their gate on their allocated time and that 2m distancing is maintained as you wait on the pavements. Some children have been arriving at 10 to 9 instead of 9 and this makes it very difficult for us to keep the bubbles separate. I understand that this is sometimes caused by a sibling having to arrive earlier however you can help by arriving towards the end of the first allocated time for the first child so that the second child only has a small wait. You can also help by only one parent bringing your child to school and leaving the pavement as soon as your child has entered the building.

To create some extra space from 14th September, the large gate will be opened for Class 2 (Mrs. Williams) pupils to go straight from the pavement into the yard at 8:50. Mrs. Williams will be waiting at the inside gate to welcome the children whilst Mrs. Ashby will be waiting to support the children with their coats and bags.

We are working extremely hard with our new routines to keep the children safe but this can only be maintained if social distancing rules are also followed outside of the school gate. Next week full classes of children will be entering the school at their given time and the whole of nursery will also be attending for the morning only and so it will become even more important that children do not arrive early and that social distancing is maintained.

Timings from 14th September

Class

Arrive Between

Leave

Entrance

Nursery

9:10 to 9:20

11:30

Main Entrance

Class 1

Mrs. Thomas

9:00 to 9:10

3:00

Main Entrance

Class 2

Mrs. Williams

8:50 to 9:00

3:10

Main Entrance

Class 3

Mrs. Davies

8:50 to 9:00

3:10

Junior Door

Class 4

Mr. Allen

9:00 to 9:10

3:20

Junior Door

Homework.

Homework for classes from Reception to year 6, will be set on Hwb every week from September 18th. All pupils will be checking their Hwb logins next week and a copy will be sent home for parents. Homework will consist of spelling words, tables and an oracy or practical activity. This work will be followed up in class through testing and discussion work.  It is very important that children and parents become familiar with logging into Hwb from home.

Reading Books.

Each class will have their own collection of reading books for pupils to take home and read. When books are returned they will be placed in an isolation box until the following week when they will become available for use again.

Music lessons.

Due to the current circumstances, violin and brass lessons will not be continuing this year. Instead, Mrs. Marsden from the Cerdd music service will be providing whole class music lessons every Wednesday for classes 3 and 4.

Breakfast Club.

Breakfast club will resume from September 28th. It will start at 8:20 and pupils will be able to arrive between 8:20 and 8:40. Pupils attending will sit at a table with their own class bubbles. At 8:50 they will go directly to their classes. The new start time will enable a smooth move from the hall to class without the previous 10 minutes of yard time which the pupils previously had.

PE Days

Please can your child come to school wearing their PE Kit on their allocated day.  (Trainers, joggers / leggings, T-shirt, school jumper)

When possible PE will be done outside. If the weather does not allow for this, PE will be done in small groups in the hall.

Nursery – Thursday

Class 1. (Mrs. Thomas) – Monday

Class 2. (Mrs. Williams) – Tuesday

Class 3. (Mrs. Davies) – Thursday

Class 4. (Mr. Allen) – Friday

Communication with parents.

We have worked extremely hard over the past few years to bring parents and carers into school for events and information sharing meetings and it is so disappointing for us that we will not be able to involve parents and carers in school events this year. Already we have decided that we will not be putting on Christmas concerts but we haven’t ruled out the possibility of an outdoor summer concert and leavers presentation for Y6 next July. We hope to keep you involved in your child’s daily experiences through plenty of photographs on Schoop and videos on our website.  Teachers will be maintaining their fortnightly news to parents through Schoop. We will be celebrating the hard work of the children through Star of the Week and Welsh speaker of the week.  These celebrations will be held in class and will continue to be sent out through Schoop and individual certificates. We will be doing our very best to make the school day for the children as interesting as possible whilst making their safety our priority.

We look forward to welcoming all of our pupils back next week.

Kind regards,

Mrs. M. Teague