Dear Parents & Carers please see the below letter from Trust CEO Paul Howieson.
Letter from Trust 11th June 2020
Please see the letter below from the CLP with the latest update on schools reopening.
Dear Parents and Carers,
Please see the latest letter from the Trust about the next steps for schools reopening.
Dear Parents and Carers,
Please take the time to read the below letter from the Trust responding to the possibility of schools reopening.
Support is available for your child's development or wellbeing
If you have any concerns regarding your child’s development, learning or social/emotional wellbeing, you may use the flyer to contact an Educational Psychologist, who may be able to give advice. This is a free service for this term only.
Dear Parents/Carers
Please see the letter below with the guidance for the Easter Holiday opening times for children of key workers and vulnerable children.
Please communicate with the school via email QPIA.office@coastalpartnership.co.uk. The telephones are not currently manned. Thank you.
► Dear Parents/Carers, please see below for the latest letter from Coastal Learning Partnership regarding Coronavirus and the closure of the school dated Friday 20th March 2020.
Please read the following letter about the School closure and key workers.
If you consider the adults in your home to be key workers and want you child to attend school please fill in the form and return to us at the earliest opportunity. It must be returned to us by Friday morning at the very latest.
Paper copies are going out in book bags to the children currently in school today and copies will also be available from the office.
► Please see below for the letter from Coastal Learning Partnership regarding Coronavirus dated Friday 13th March 2020.
Yesterday, 16th March 2020, the Government introduced new guidance on whole household isolation in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak:
The symptoms are:
The full stay at home guidance for households with these symptoms can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-stay-at-home-guidance
Today Monday 16th March 2020, the Department for Education and Public Health England have issued updated guidance for education settings on COVID-19.
What you need to know:
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Current advice remains in place: no education or children’s social care setting should close in response to a suspected or confirmed COVID-19 case unless advised to do so by Public Health England.
The Chief Medical Officer has advised that the impact of closing schools on both children’s education and on the workforce will be substantial, but the benefit to public health may not be. Decisions on future advice to schools will be taken based on the latest and best scientific evidence, which at this stage suggests children are a lower risk group.
To support the delay of the spread of the virus, the Department for Health and Social Care has asked anyone who shows certain symptoms to stay at home for 7 days, regardless of whether they have travelled to affected areas. This means people should stay at home and avoid all but essential contact with others for 7 days from the point of displaying mild symptoms, to slow the spread of infection.
The symptoms are:
You do not need to call NHS 111 to stay at home. If your symptoms worsen during your stay at home period or are no better after 7 days contact NHS 111 online at 111.nhs.uk. If you have no internet access, you should call NHS 111. For a medical emergency dial 999
The Department for Education coronavirus helpline is available to answer questions about COVID-19 relating to education and children’s social care. Staff, parents and young people can contact this helpline as follows:
Phone: 0800 046 8687
Opening hours: 8am to 6pm (Monday to Friday), 10am to 4pm (Saturday to Sunday)
Please note, we are currently experiencing high volumes of calls and apologise for any wait that you may experience. To ensure that we answer your calls as quickly as possible we have now extended our opening hours to cover weekends.
Updates on COVID-19: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus
Travel advice for those travelling and living overseas: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/travel-advice-novel-coronavirus
Government response information: https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/coronavirus-covid-19-uk-government-response
Below are some links for videos about hand washing, please share them with your children:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51698180
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9VjeIWLnEg
Personal hygiene is still the most important way we can tackle COVID-19, especially washing hands more; and the catch it, bin it, kill it strategy for those with coughs and sneezes.
Wash your hands more often for 20 seconds with soap and hot water.
Updates on COVID-19: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus
Travel advice for those travelling and living overseas: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/travel-advice-novel-coronavirus
Government response information: https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/coronavirus-covid-19-uk-government-response
Personal hygiene is the most important way we can tackle COVID-19, especially washing hands more; and the catch it, bin it, kill it strategy for those with coughs and sneezes.
Wash your hands more often for 20 seconds with soap and hot water.
In addition to handwashing before eating and after sneezing, both children and staff should also wash hands after using toilets and after travelling on public transport.
Today 02/03/2020, the Department for Education have launched a new helpline to answer questions about COVID-19 related to education.
Staff, parents and young people can contact the helpline as follows:
Phone: 0800 046 8687
Email: DfE.coronavirushelpline@education.gov.uk
Opening hours: 8am to 6pm (Monday to Friday)
No school should close in response to a suspected (or confirmed) COVID-19 case unless directed to do so by Public Health England.
Personal hygiene is the most important way we can tackle COVID-19. Please help us in sharing simple and effective hand hygiene messages.
Public Health England has a dedicated webpage with a range of posters and digital materials at:
https://campaignresources.phe.gov.uk/resources/campaigns/101-coronavirus-/resources
Sign up is quick, free and means you will be alerted as more resources are made available.
Coronavirus: Updated Advice for parents/guardians from the Department for Education
As of 25th February 2020, advice for returning travellers is as follows:
If you have returned from the following areas since 19 February, call NHS111 to inform them of your recent travel, stay indoors and avoid contact with other people even if you do not have symptoms:
• Iran
• Specific lockdown areas in Northern Italy as designated by the Government of Italy - (Bertonico; Casalpusterlengo; Castelgerundo; Castiglione D'Adda; Codogno; Fombio; Maleo; San Fiorano; Somaglia; Terranova dei Passerini; Vo).
• Daegu or Cheongdo, Republic of Korea)
• Hubei province, China (returned in the past 14 days)
If you have returned from the following areas since 19 February and develop symptoms, however mild, you should stay indoors at home and avoid contact with other people immediately and call NHS111. You do not need to follow this advice if you do not have symptoms:
• Northern Italy
• Vietnam
• Cambodia
• Laos
• Myanmar
If you have returned to the UK from any of the following areas in the last 14 days and develop symptoms of cough or fever or shortness of breath, you should immediately stay indoors and avoid contact with other people, call NHS 111 to inform them of your recent travel to the country.
• Other parts of China outside Hubei province
• Thailand
• Japan
• Republic of Korea
• Hong Kong
• Taiwan
• Singapore
• Malaysia
• Macau
This guidance can be found in full online here:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-information-for-the-public
A full list of affected areas, including maps, can be found online here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-specified-countries-and-areas
There is also a public information video on the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obi5CnUUuIk
Public Health England has changed the advice for individuals who have travelled recently as follows:
If you have travelled from Wuhan or Hubei Province to the UK in the last 14 days you should immediately:
Please follow this advice even if you do not have symptoms of the virus.
This advice applies to travellers who have returned to the UK from the following areas:
If you have returned to the UK from any of these areas in the last 14 days and develop symptoms of cough or fever or shortness of breath, you should immediately:
As always, if you have symptoms of a cold or flu, then there are measures you can take to stop germs:
Updates on Coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus
Travel advice for those travelling and living overseas: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/travel-advice-novel-coronavirus
Public Health England blog: https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov.uk/2020/01/23/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-what-you-need-to-know/
You should not be unduly worried about the possibility of your children catching the Coronavirus.
There is no reason why your children should not continue to attend their early years, school or further education setting as normal.
We recognise that some families or children may be planning to travel to China during the forthcoming half term period. If so, please refer to the FCO’s latest travel advice via the link below.
Public Health England and the Foreign Office have issued advice for anyone travelling to the area. This can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/china
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-and-avian-flu-advice-for-travel-to-china
Latest information and advice can also be found at: