Cleaswell Hill School

2 weeks ago

Good afternoon,

Covid-19 is increasingly hitting the North East especially in Newcastle, Gateshead and Tyneside areas with stricter rules being put in place across the region from tonight. At present we do not have the same levels of risk as the more built up areas but the ‘R’ number for Northumberland will probably increase before it goes down.

For Cleaswell Hill School it is still business as usual - government guidance for special schools indicates that even in the event of a lockdown special schools would stay fully open.

Our goal is to have all pupils safely in school making up for the time lost during the summer term, however, this may not be realistic for a while. Over the next few weeks it is highly likely that we will have Covid-19 cases within the school’s population which will then prompt Public Health England to inform me to isolate particular individuals, classes or phase groups from school. If this happens, although I will be notifying you of the decision, the directive will be coming from a 'higher' authority so please bear this in mind if you are notified that child has to stay at home!

I realise that this is a challenging time for all and I hope that together we can limit the impact of Covid-19 on your children’s education and well being. With this in mind please do not send your child to school if they or a family member has Covid-19 symptoms (see the flow chart on a previous post or our website). If your child becomes symptomatic in school you will be asked to collect them as soon as possible to limit the risk of infection to other pupils and staff. In order to keep school as fully open as possible we need to limit the risks of Covid coming in.

I will let you know if there are any changes to our situation via this Facebook page and our website.

Best wishes,

Mike ... See MoreSee Less