Covid Information and Contacts
Contacting the school regarding coronavirus:
e: covid@ferryhill.school - monitored 7 days a week.
t: 01740 651554 - Monday to Friday during school hours.
Please provide details of the student(s) this may affect. We will require:
Student name
Year Group
Details of when symptoms started
Date of when a test result was done and received, if applicable.
If your child tests positive for Covid, they should stay at home and isolate for three days, from the day after the first positive test result. For example, if they test positive on Monday, isolation ends on Thursday evening, and they can return to school on Friday. Please also provide a photo of the positive test as evidence and send to attendance@ferryhill.school
What to do if your child develops symptoms of COVID 19
For most people, especially children, COVID-19 will be a mild illness.
The most common symptoms of COVID-19 are recent onset of:
• a high temperature or shivering (chills) – a high temperature 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
• a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste
• shortness of breath
• feeling tired or exhausted
• an aching body
• a headache
• a sore throat
• a blocked or runny nose
• loss of appetite
• diarrhoea
• feeling sick or being sick
The symptoms are very similar to symptoms of other illnesses, such as colds and flu.
Your child should try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people if they have symptoms of COVID-19 and they either:
• have a high temperature
• do not feel well enough to go to school, college or childcare, or do their normal activities
They can go back to school, college or childcare when they feel better or do not have a high temperature.
How to stop COVID-19 spreading
There are things you can do to help reduce the risk of you and anyone you live with getting ill with COVID-19:
• wash your hands with soap and water often – do this for at least 20 seconds
• use hand sanitiser gel if soap and water are not available
• wash your hands as soon as you get home
• cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or your sleeve (not your hands) when you cough or sneeze
• put used tissues in the bin immediately and wash your hands afterwards
Keeping up with school work (during isolation)
As always, we are committed to our students and will ensure that, during these difficult times, they receive high quality remote education whilst at home.
With this in mind, home learning will include one of the following options whilst our students are self-isolating:
1. Live lessons (students will be invited to these through Microsoft Teams so will need to log on and follow their normal timetable by using the calendar function or by entering the actual Team. We followed this process during lockdown.
OR
2. Pre-recorded lessons/video tutorials including appropriate tasks that will also appear on Microsoft Teams. These tasks can be found in the individual class Team e.g 7A2 English.
In both cases, students will follow their normal timetable and will therefore need to log onto Microsoft Teams at the start of each day. As always, attendance is vital, especially given the amount of lost time our students have experienced during the Covid pandemic. Staff will monitor attendance closely and communicate with their Learning Co-ordinator, to ensure students attend their timetabled lessons. If your child has any questions about the work, they can email the relevant teacher. If your child does not know their email address, they can email the subject teachers with the name of the subject@ferryhill.school For example, for maths help, email maths@ferryhill.school In addition, please feel free to contact the school during office hours 8am-3:30pm on 01740 651554.
Further information
Further information is available at www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19