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26^th October 2020

Dear Parent or Carer,

A confirmed case of Covid-19 in our School

A member of Brentwood has tested positive for Covid-19. We are working closely with Trafford’s Public Health Team to reduce the risk of infection for your son/daughter and our staff.

If your son/daughter is a contact of the case we will contact you by telephone to discuss the next steps. Any contact must self-isolate for 14 days. Only the contact needs to self-isolate, other members of the contact’s household do not need to self-isolate. For schools and colleges, a contact is any student or adult identified through setting based contact tracing.

If your son/daughter has not been identified as a contact they do not need to self-isolate.

It is important that we are all aware of the symptoms of Covid19 and only well students attend school and college.

The main symptoms of coronavirus are:
· high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)
· 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)
· 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

Most people with coronavirus have at least one of these symptoms. Information about Covid19 symptoms and management of the virus can be found here, www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronaviruscovid-19/

We will be taking the appropriate action to clean the affected areas across the school and college.

If your son/daughter is identified as a contact please try not to worry. For most people Covid19 is a mild illness, if you or your son/daughter develops any of the above symptoms or become unwell please contact NHS111 or your GP. Although Covid19 is circulating in the community, usual childhood and seasonal illnesses are too and it is important that these are not missed.

If you have any questions or concerns please refer to the government website, www.gov.uk/coronavirus or you can contact me by calling 0161905 2371 email:admin@brentwood.trafford.sch.uk

Best wishes

Jude Lomas

Headteacher

CC: Eleanor Roaf, Director of Public Health, Trafford Council

Dear Parents and Carers,

If your child usually receives a free school meal in a Trafford school, find out how to claim your October half term free school meal voucher here:

https://www.trafford.gov.uk/residents/schools/trafford-catering/free-school-meals.aspx

If there are any problems with the link or claiming the voucher, please contact Cllr Karina Carter, Trafford's Lead Member for Education directly:

Karina.carter@trafford.gov.uk
 

23^rd October 2020

 

Dear Parents and Carers,

 

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your support during this half term. Working together we have succeeded in keeping school and college open to students without the need to suspend any of our bubbles. Whilst some students and staff have had contact with positive Covid cases, so far we have been lucky in avoiding any positive cases in school. With the rise in local cases it is highly likely this position will change, but we are well prepared and supported by Trafford Public Health when the time comes.

 

We have followed government guidance throughout this time, and in doing so have had to ask a number of parents and carers to take their son/daughter for a test, and to self isolate whilst awaiting results. Whilst we appreciate the inconvenience this causes, we value your co-operation in supporting us to keep the school and college safe.

We are doing our utmost to deliver a full curriculum in school and college, with some modifications to community participation and access to our hydrotherapy pool and soft play. Looking forward to next term we would like to ensure our students get lots of opportunities to celebrate Christmas and other key festivals and events. We are working with department co-ordinators to ensure that alongside our curriculum students don’t miss out on some of the key events that are so important to them for socialising and fun. Indeed today we were able to celebrate Hallowe’en and some of our students even managed to do trick or treating in corridors within their bubbles.

 

I would like to wish you all a healthy and enjoyable half term break.

Kind regards

Jude