Important Covid Update! Please read!

Dear Parents / Carers

As we come to the end of a very different, difficult but none the less successful term, I write to outline the plans regarding Covid over the Easter holiday and for the return to school. Please read the below carefully as it is important!

You only need to inform the school of a child receiving a positive test if the symptoms appeared within 48 hours of them last being in school. Please inform us using Class Dojo or by emailing office@clockhouse.havering.sch.uk. A member of the team will then contact you. We will then follow the necessary steps in terms of contact tracing. As a school we are required to contact trace up until Wednesday 7th April, therefore please do keep an eye on the Dojo and please do answer calls that come from an unknown number as it could be us! If we inform you that your child has come into close contact with a positive test case before the end of term, they must self-isolate your child up to the date that we give you.

If the symptoms appear after 48 hours of the last being in school, you should follow the contact tracing instructions provided by the NHS Test and Trace. You can also inform the school using the above channels but there would be no further action for us to take.

As you are aware, even though it is the Easter holiday it is still vital that you of arrange for your child to be tested as soon as symptoms appear and that the household isolate until results are received. This must be through a PCR test. We would strongly advise that you do NOT order a home test, but that you book an appointment at a local test center as you will receive the results far quicker.

As always, thank you for you on-going support. It is such a tough time for us all, in so many different ways but we are in it together and will get thought it together.

I really do hope you all have a lovely Easter and here is hoping we will not be in touch over the holiday!

Stay safe!

Kind regards
Mrs Savidge