Keep up to date with all the news happening in school at the moment.

• Updates to Isolation Rules 28.1.22

  Wed 26 Jan 2022

  Updated Isolation Rules 28.1.22

• Isolation & Testing Update Jan 2022

  Mon 10 Jan 2022

   

  Monday 10^th January 2022

  Dear families,

  The changes in the rules for testing and isolation have changed so much over the past few months it is difficult to know what to do. We have been given this grid below which may help if you find yourself in this situation:

  Student/member of staff is unwell with symptoms	Do not attend school Get PCR test and self-isolate If PCR is positive – self -isolate for 7 clear days from onset of COVID symptoms or test date if asymptomatic, with an LFT on day 6 & 7. If this is negative can return to school on day 8. If either of the LFTs is positive need to continue to self-isolate until 2 clear LFTs or until 10 clear days. Can return with a cough, a headache but not if they still have a temperature.
  Student/member of staff is unwell with positive LFT	Do not attend school. You don’t now need a PCR. Self -isolate for 7 clear days from onset of COVID symptoms or test date if no cough, fever or anosmia, with an LFT on day 6 & 7. If this is negative can return to school on day 8. If either of the LFTs is positive, need to continue to self-isolate until 2 clear LFTs or 10 clear days. Can return with a cough, a headache but not if they still have a temperature.
  Student/member of staff is well with positive LFT	Do not attend school. You don’t now need a PCR. Self -isolate for 7 days, with an LFT on day 6 & 7. If this is negative can return to school on day 8. If either of the LFTs is positive, need to continue to self-isolate until 2 clear LFTs or 10 clear days from the test. Can return with a cough, a headache but not if they still have a temperature.
  Someone in the household is positive but student/member of staff is well.	If aged 5-17 or a double vaccinated adult, do not need to self-isolate but should do an LFT every day until 10 days since last contact with the person who tested positive for COVID-19 or, if the case is a household contact, until their end of isolation. Any unvaccinated adults need to self-isolate for 10 days

   

  With best wishes,

  Mrs J. Beckett

  Head Teacher

• How the 7 Day Isolation Works

  Wed 05 Jan 2022
  

• Important Return to School Information January 2022

  Tue 04 Jan 2022

   

  Tuesday 4^th January 2022

  Dear families,

   

  Happy New Year to all of our families!

   

  This isn’t the way we want to start a new year but as I communicated to you when we broke up for the Christmas holidays, the COVID situation in Wales has escalated. As schools, we are keen to stay open and we are determined to keep our school community safe.

   

  Tuesday 4^th and Wednesday 5^th have been assigned for planning days for schools. These two planning days will enable us to assess staffing capacity and put the necessary measures in place to support the return of all learners. They are also an opportunity to ensure that we have robust plans in place to move to remote learning; this could be for individual classes or possibly for the whole school if necessary. We will be working with the children on their return to ensure they have all they need if face to face learning is disrupted. Please support us in this and ensure that children keep all log-ins safe as well as following the safety measures identified below:

  • We will continue with regular handwashing, good personal hygiene and social distancing will be followed as far as is possible. 

  • Ensure you arrive at the correct time and socially distance at all times –we will be returning to calling children in a class at a time so that we can avoid any mixing or contact between bubbles.
  • To avoid any cross contamination classes will eat lunch separately and some will return to eating in their classrooms – this will be rotated each half term so they all have the chance to eat in the hall.
  • Limit the items the children bring into school.
  • Ensure that the reading books are brought in on the correct day as they will still be quarantined and books returned late cannot be changed.

  • All adults must wear masks in and around the school site when picking up and dropping off children, and if not able to, please display exemption badges. Adults not wearing masks will not be admitted to the school site.
  • Our site is very restricted and whilst we do have an option to stagger start and ends times, we do not want to cause further disruption to the children’s education, so we must insist that parents do not gather around the school site and socially distance as much as possible. If we do not feel it is safe in and around the school with large numbers of parents gathering, we will look to re-introduce staggered start and end times.
  • Access to the school office will be restricted – please phone or email if you have any queries.

   

  Wednesday 5^th January a hub is available in school for key worker children from 8.50am until 3.20pm. If you have no other options for childcare please email the school at jospri@newport.gov.uk to request a place for this day by 3pm today (Tuesday 4^th) and a member of staff will get back to you. Please only contact us if your childcare needs are essential and you are a keyworker.

   

  I apologise for yet another long letter of this nature, but as a team we want to reassure you that we will do all we can to keep our St. Joseph’s family safe and ensure any disruption to our children’s education is kept to a minimum and we appreciate your continued support in doing this.

  Kind regards,

  Mrs J. Beckett

  Head Teacher