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Covid 19 Information Summary
This page is designated to all Covid 19 letters and documents we have sent home to parents/carers. Please see the summaries below of information contained in each letter for your reference.
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21/07/2021- Return to School September Arrangements
- Summer Closure
- Emergency Safeguarding Contact
- Start Days/ Times for September
21/07/2021- Letter to Parents and Carers
- Covid-19 Testing in September
- Consent
- Risk Assessments & Policies
19/07/2021- Letter to Parents and Carers
- Changes to Contact Tracing
- September Lateral Flow Tests
06/07/2021- Letter to Parents and Carers
- Number of Covid cases
- Self Isolation
- Working at home
â21/06/2021- Letter to Parents and Carers
- Suspension of the lifting of restrictions and the impact on planned events
- Teenage mental health
- Grading 2021
21/06/2021- Letter to Parents from Assistant Director of Children's Services
15/06/2021- Letter to Parents and Carers
- Confirmed Covid case
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What to do if your child develops symptoms of COVID 19
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What to do if your child / family member tests LFD positive
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Symptoms
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How to stop COVID-19 spreading
11/06/2021- Letter to Parents and Carers
09/06/2021- Letter to Parents 1
- COVID-19 variant
09/06/2021- Letter to Parents 2
- COVID-19 Variant
- How you can help
07/06/2021- Letter to Parents & Carers
- Masks
- Lateral Flow Tests
- Catering
- Parent & Student Surveys
28/05/2021- Letter to Parents & Carers
- Kitchen staff isolating
- Inset Day 7th June
- Waingels Unplugged
- Parents Survey
- 50th Anniversary Celebrations
20/05/2021- Covid Amendments in Summer Term
- Changes to staggered starts
- Changes to Lunch time
- Changes to end of day
14/05/2021- Letter to Parents & Carers
- Wearing of face coverings in lessons
- Home Testing
07/05/2021- Letter to Parents & Carers
- Covid Update
- Year 11 and 13 Awarding of Grades
- Additional Inset Day
- End of Year Assessments
- Waingels Awarded Funding
19/04/2021- Letter to Parents & Carers
- Start of term
- Lateral Flow Tests
- Face Coverings
- Uniform
19/04/2021- Face Coverings to Remain in Place after Easter Break
On Tuesday 6 April, the government confirmed that face coverings should continue to be worn in secondary school and college classrooms as a precautionary measure when students return after the Easter holiday. Further information can be found here.
18/03/2021 Rapid Testing: What you need to know
16/03/2021 Letter to Parents and Carers- Lateral Flow Tests
- LFD Testing
- Close Contact
- LFD v PCR
- Remote Learning
- Home Testing
15/03/2021- Message from Department for Education re. Lateral Flow Tests
About 1 in 3 people with coronavirus do not have symptoms but can still pass it on to others. Regular testing of people without symptoms is important to help stop the virus spreading and protect your loved ones. As lockdown restrictions gradually ease we all need to play our part to help protect each other.
The following people in England will have access to regular rapid lateral flow testing made available to them:
- secondary school pupils and college students
- staff of primary and secondary schools, nurseries and colleges
- households, childcare and support bubbles of nursery children, primary and secondary-age pupils and college students
- households, childcare and support bubbles of staff of nurseries, primary and secondary schools, and colleges
Children of primary school age or younger will not be asked to test at this time.
If you’re a member of a household, childcare bubble of a pupil, student or staff of a school, nursery or college, you can get a twice-weekly test:
- through your employer if they offer testing to employees
- at a local test site
- by collecting a home test kit from a test site
- by ordering a home test kit online
Get a test through your employer
Your workplace may offer rapid lateral flow testing to you. Contact your employer to find out more.
Take a test at a rapid lateral flow test site
You can take a rapid lateral flow test at a local site. Testing at these sites is assisted, which means you will swab yourself under the supervision of a trained operator.
You may need to book an appointment.
Find your nearest rapid lateral flow test site.
Collect test kits
You can collect 2 packs of home test kits at a local collection point. Each pack contains 7 tests.
Anyone 18 or over can collect.
Most collection points are open from 1.30pm to 7pm. You can check online if the location is open or busy before you go. You do not need to make an appointment.
Do not visit a collection point outside opening hours, as it may be used to test people with coronavirus symptoms outside these times.
Find your nearest home test kit collection point.
Order home test kits online
If you cannot get tested at your workplace, or are unable to go to a test site or collect test kits, you can order a home test kit online.
Do not order online if you can get a test through other methods. This frees up home delivery for those who need it most.
Order rapid lateral flow home test kits
For more information, please visit:
- Lateral Flow Testing
- Vigilance
- Expectations
Updated Testing Announcement- 09/03/2021
Lateral Flow Test Results
We are really pleased with how well the lateral flow tests have been going and especially the way the students have conducted themselves.
We wanted to give you an update about the results of the tests. We will know within 30-35 minutes whether your child has had a positive test result. If that is the case, we will contact you and your child as soon as possible. Therefore, if you are not contacted by us please assume your child’s result is negative. Uploading the results onto the Track and Trace software is time consuming as it is a large administrative task. For this reason, there will be a delay from when your child takes a test to you receiving the result of that test. Students should continue to attend school unless we have contacted you to inform you of a positive result.
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Testing Announcement- 05/03/2021
The Department for Education (DfE) has asked us to share the following information with our Parent/Carers. If you have any queries please use the phone numbers in the DfE message below – unfortunately we do not have any additional information and therefore we will not be able to answer any queries about this.
Asymptomatic testing information for parents and adults in households with children at school or college
NHS Test and Trace announced earlier this week, that all adults in households with school and college age children without symptoms can now access regular rapid coronavirus (COVID-19) testing.
Test kits can either be collected or ordered online, as set out below. Schools should not give test kits to parents, carers or household members and should not order more test kits for this purpose. Secondary school and college students will continue to access testing through their school or college.
Please share the information below with your parent networks to help answer any questions they may have.
Undertaking regular, rapid coronavirus (COVID-19) testing helps reduce transmission of the virus. Parents and other adults in households with children at school or college, who do not have symptoms, can now access regular, rapid coronavirus (COVID-19) testing. This includes childcare and support bubbles.
Tests are fast, easy and completely free. There are different ways for a household, childcare or support bubble to collect their test to take at home, twice-weekly:
- through your employer, if they offer testing to employees
- by collecting a home test kit from a local test site – anyone aged 18 or over can collect 2 packs of 7 tests
- by ordering a home test kit online – please do not order online if you can access testing through other routes, this frees up home delivery for those who need it most
If you have any queries about the tests, and you live in England, please call 119 (free from mobiles and landlines). Lines are open every day from 7am to 11pm.
Children of primary school age (and below) without symptoms are not being asked to take a test.
Testing is voluntary, but strongly recommended to all who are eligible. Alongside the vaccine, washing hands, wearing face coverings, and maintaining social distancing, rapid testing plays a vital role in reducing transmission rates. Getting into the habit of regular testing as part of our everyday lives will help us all to play our part and do what we can to protect each other.
02/03/2021- Year 7 Student Letter- Return to School
02/03/2021- Year 8 Student Letter- Return to School
02/03/2021- Year 9 Student Letter- Return to School
02/03/2021- Year 10 Student Letter- Return to School
02/03/2021- Year 11 Student Letter- Return to School
02/03/2021- Key Worker Students Return to School
01/03/2021- Lateral Flow Testing Consent Letter
- Covid-19 Testing
- Consent- By Wednesday 3rd March deadline (3pm)
- First Test Year Group Dates (before school re-opens)
- Second Test Year Group Dates
- Third Test Year Group Dates
- Risk Assessments and Policies
- Covid-19 Cases
- FAQs
COVID-19 Testing Privacy Statement
26/02/2021- Letter to Parents and Carers
- 8th March- Inset Day
- Lateral Flow Covid Tests
- Staggered Starting and Ending Times
- 11th March- Year 9 Parents Consultations
- Wearing of Masks
- Welcome Back
â12/02/2021- Letter to Parents and Carers
05/02/2021- Letter to Parents and Carers
29/01/2021- Letter to Parents and Carers
25/01/2021- Remote Education Provision: Info for Parents
22/01/2021- Letter to Parents and Carers
20/01/2021- New Student Code of Conduct for Microsoft Teams
15/01/2021- Letter to Parents and Carers
06/01/2021- Letter to Year 11 Parent and Carers
- GCSEs cancelled
- 2pm Meeting for all Year 11 students on Teams with Mr Bartlett on 07/01/2021
- Parents Consultations postponed until 28th January
A detailed page of our Home Learning FAQs can be found here. If your question has not been answered, please fill in the form below where we will get back to you as soon as we can.
Quick Guide to Downloading and using Office 365
Quick Guide to Downloading the Teams App to your Smart Phone
Using XBox or PlayStation to Access Remote Learning
Lockdown Lesson Tariff for Parents and Carers
- Lateral Flow Testing
- Schedule for Return Dates and Times
17/12/2020- Year 10 Close Contact Covid Letter
17/12/2020- End of Term Letter
- Covid 19 Pandemic Response
- Mental Health
- Contact Tracing during Christmas Break
- covidresponse@waingels.wokingham.sch.uk
- Christmas Dinner
- Jerusalema Dance
- Corona Virus updates and thank you's
- Student Mental Health and Well-being
- End of Term Jerusalema Dance
- Christmas Dinner
- Food Bank & IT Recycling
- Year group working from home schedule
23/11/2020- Government Guidance Published in Various Languages
10/11/2020- 1 day year group closures
- Wednesday 11th Nov: Year 9 working at home
- Thursday 12th Nov: Year 8 working at home
- Friday 13th Nov: Year 12 working at home
- Monday 16th Nov: Year 10 working at home
09/11/2020- Notification of a Confirmed Case of Covid-19
- School closed to students in Year 10 on 10/11/2020
- Ventilation & winter clothing
- Covid related staff absence
- Covid related student absence
- Face coverings, Extra Curricular and other measures
- School opening times
- Travel to and from school
- Drop off and pick up
- Parent Consultations
- Children in Need
â19/10/2020- Key Worker Provision Letter
15/10/2020- Changes to A Levels 2021
15/10/2020- Changes to GCSEs 2021
13/10/2020- Contingency Plan Letter Home
- Link to live Microsoft Teams consent form
06/10/2020- A Quick Guide for Parents & Carers on Covid 19 Absence
02/10/2020- Introducing Compulsory Face Coverings
- From 12/10/2020 Year 7 & 8 students will move for all lessons
- From 12/10/2020 the wearing of face masks when students are moving between lessons and when using the toilets or buying food will be mandatory.
25/09/2020- Re-opening of Food Cube
Public Health England have produced a letter for schools to distribute to parents which explains when a person requires a coronavirus test and what the symptoms of coronavirus are. The Department have asked us to share and circulate this letter amongst parents at our school.
The intention of the letter is to help prevent children being taken out of school unnecessarily and answer some of the questions you may have around testing.
24/09/2020- Public Health England Letter
18/09/2020- Adjustments to Covid 19 Measures
- 9am start time for Year 11, 12 & 13
- Accessing lessons from home when self-isolating
- Published GCSE & A Level grades
17/09/2020- The Importance of Wearing Masks
14/09/2020- Covid Attendance Protocol
11/09/2020- Key Strategy Reminders
- Regular hand washing
- Wearing of face coverings when travelling to lessons
- One way system
- Year group bubbles
- Waingels code of conduct
- Limiting visitors into school
02/09/2020- PE Information for Students Returning to School
- Minimising contact between students
- Borrowing of PE kit
- Valuables
- Changing facilities
- Lessons
- Extra-curricular activities
01/09/2020- DFE Updated Guidance on the Safe Re-Opening
- Face coverings in education setting
- Code of Conduct
- Attendance Policy
- Parents & Carers on site meetings and visiting
- Hand sanitiser
- Resources
- Timings of the day
- Bubbles
- Break/lunch time arrangements
- Risk assessments & hygiene
- Uniform
- Mobile phones
30/08/2020- Arrangements for Students Returning to School in September
- Attendance
- Returning from countries outside the UK
- Tutor Interviews
- Testing/ test results/ track & trace
- Confirmed cases in school
- Students being sent home
- School outbreak
- Clinicially vulnerable and shielding
- Returning to school
