COVID School Safety Plan
VISITING SCHOOL
Schools are no longer required to have staff or visitors use the Check-In App. The State Government made the decision to close the App last Saturday evening at 6pm. We ask all visitors to continue to use our normal check in requirements through Compass (‘sign-in’ at the school office if staying longer than 15 minutes). We understand that there will be times when parents will need to attend school, however, it is important that we minimise the number of visitors to our schools at this time to minimise the potential for transmission. To support the safety of our school all visitors are required to wear a mask whilst indoors.
MAINTAINING ISOLATION
Advice for confirmed cases should your child test positive for COVID-19 using a rapid antigen test:
- Your child must not come to school.
- You must register the result with Public Health using their online declaration form or phone the Public Health Hotline 1800 671 738.
- Your child must isolate from other persons including family members for a minimum of seven days.
- If your child still has symptoms on day seven then he or she must continue isolation for a further three days.
- Family members living in the same house are deemed to be close contacts.
- Close contacts need to quarantine for seven days and to maintain isolation integrity between themselves and the confirmed case.
- The seven days of isolation starts the day after your child tested positive.
- The seven days of quarantine for close contacts starts on the same day as the isolation period provided there has been no close contact between the confirmed case and other family members after receipt of the positive test result.
- If the confirmed case and other family members can maintain isolation integrity for the seven days of isolation then quarantine will also end when isolation ends.
- Having completed isolation, should your child come into contact with someone with COVID-19 in the four weeks following completion of isolation and your child is not immunocompromised or symptomatic, they will not need to quarantine or isolate.
RAPID ANTIGEN TESTS
The school has received some additional supplies of rapid antigen tests for distribution to families on a needs basis – to ascertain whether symptoms are indicating a COVID-19 infection. If you require rapid antigen tests to be used for this purpose (have a test at home in case a child displays symptoms) please communicate with the school office by phone (6426 1626) or email(stpatslat@catholic.tas.edu.au)
SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES
Zoom assemblies conducted by our school student leaders will be our only form of assembly this week and next week, with our class gatherings (Mondays – Years 4, 5 and 6; Tuesdays – Years 3, 2, 1 and Prep) beginning again on Monday 7th March.