COVID Outbreak - January 2022
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Dear Parent,
I trust that you and your family are keeping well.
I wrote recently to remind parents to remain vigilant, due to a steady rise in COVID cases in the school.
Unfortunately, we have had a significant rise in cases in a number of classes this week and several staff have also tested positive for COVID. Therefore, having taken advice from the Education Authority, parents should get Lateral Flow Tests and test each child, who is not already isolating, immediately. If your child tests positive today, then you must log the result with the PHA and inform the school via email on info@dromaraps.org - Only then can PHA begin contact tracing. If positive cases have not been logged, then this is why PHA has not contacted other parents or the school.
Even if your child tests negative today, please remain vigilant and if they have any signs of feeling unwell then they should not attend school and be retested. Indeed, it would be wise to retest on Sunday in any case. It would appear that many children are presenting with symptoms other than the ‘typical’ COVID-19 symptoms of high temperature, cough and/or loss of taste or smell, such as runny nose or sore tummy etc, whilst others are asymptomatic.
We have reached a critical stage in some classes and if the trend continues, we may be forced to move to remote learning, as staffing is becoming a problem.
The school has done very well up until this point with the help of our parents, however, we need everyone to remain vigilant and to follow the guidance:
https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/coronavirus-covid-19-self-isolating-and-close-contacts#toc-1
Please keep an eye out for any further messages before school reopens on Monday morning.
Thank you.
Regards,
Andrew Armstrong
Dromara Primary School
I trust that you and your family are keeping well.
I wrote recently to remind parents to remain vigilant, due to a steady rise in COVID cases in the school.
Unfortunately, we have had a significant rise in cases in a number of classes this week and several staff have also tested positive for COVID. Therefore, having taken advice from the Education Authority, parents should get Lateral Flow Tests and test each child, who is not already isolating, immediately. If your child tests positive today, then you must log the result with the PHA and inform the school via email on info@dromaraps.org - Only then can PHA begin contact tracing. If positive cases have not been logged, then this is why PHA has not contacted other parents or the school.
Even if your child tests negative today, please remain vigilant and if they have any signs of feeling unwell then they should not attend school and be retested. Indeed, it would be wise to retest on Sunday in any case. It would appear that many children are presenting with symptoms other than the ‘typical’ COVID-19 symptoms of high temperature, cough and/or loss of taste or smell, such as runny nose or sore tummy etc, whilst others are asymptomatic.
We have reached a critical stage in some classes and if the trend continues, we may be forced to move to remote learning, as staffing is becoming a problem.
The school has done very well up until this point with the help of our parents, however, we need everyone to remain vigilant and to follow the guidance:
https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/coronavirus-covid-19-self-isolating-and-close-contacts#toc-1
Please keep an eye out for any further messages before school reopens on Monday morning.
Thank you.
Regards,
Andrew Armstrong
Dromara Primary School
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