Micklefield School News

BACK TO SCHOOL

We are looking forward to welcoming all the girls back on our campus on Monday, 26 July unless the President says otherwise over the weekend. It is the usual start and collection times and all extra-murals are in place to start on Monday, 26 July. Please check the weekly update on the Communicator and website for any further information. As always, all Covid protocols are in place and screening will be done as usual. New forms have been given out to each pupil for Term 3.  These are in their plastic sleeves, please ensure that these are signed daily.

Girls may arrive at school from 07.30 onwards.

Grade 6 and Grade 7 are to be collected at 14.30 from the Sandown Road gate.  Parents are please to park in the surrounding roads and walk and collect your daughters at the Sandown Road gate.  This gate will be closed again at 14.45.

Grade 3, 4 and 5 are to be collected at the main gate in Wood Road as usual at 14.30.

Grade 1 and 2 will leave via the Scout Hall on Tuesdays as per last term.

COVID PROTOCOLS

Please notify your class teacher, Jeannette Welgemoed and Sandi Blackbeard immediately if your daughter or any member of your family contracts Covid or comes into contact with a positive person.  Please supply as much information as possible so as to help with tracking and tracing and in order to be able to inform the rest of the class appropriately.

Please be extra cautious as we return to school and keep to the Covid protocols in order to keep everyone as safe and healthy as possible. 

Thank you to Dr Claudia Gray for the following reminders:

• If any direct family member or any other direct contact goes for a Covid test, your daughter must be kept at home until the result of the Covid test is known.
• Self quarantining is 10 days from the time there was last contact with a positive person. If during this time, you become symptomatic and test positive, you have to start a further 10 days isolation from the time of onset of the symptoms.

• Self-isolation is 10 days from the onset of symptoms (test positive) or if asymptomatic, 10 days from a positive test result. You may return to school/work without re-testing as long as the person is symptom-free.
• The best time to test after being exposed to a positive person is 7/8 days from the last contact.
• The PCR test has a longer turnaround time (1/2 days) but is best as it is sensitive to asymptomatic people as well as those with symptoms.
• The Rapid Test is cheaper and you can get results as quickly as 15 minutes. This is a better test for symptomatic people, but it is less sensitive in younger children.