Current COVID-19 guidance

Our management plan is written with advice from the Local Authority and Local Health Protection teams.

If a child, or a member of a child’s household, has Covid symptoms, they cannot attend school. They must remain at home and self-isolate. Other members of the household must also remain at home and self-isolate. This includes siblings who attend James Wolfe Primary School or another school.

If a child shows Covid symptoms at school, then we will move them to a separate room and contact their parent/carer. They must be collected as soon as possible.

If the test is positive, then the school must be contacted and we will discuss the next steps with our Local Health Protection Team.

a high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)
a new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)
a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste – this means you've noticed you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal