19/04/2024
Posted on: May 27th 2021
Contact tracing during June half term
We will need to continue the contact tracing within the school community over the half term break, so please can you report any positive cases to the TKAT Centre on Monday 31st May. This is necessary, only if your child develops symptoms within 48 hours of leaving the school premises and / or has taken a test within 48 hours of leaving the school site and the result is positive.
Positive test result less than 48 hours after leaving school:
If your child develops symptoms or has received a positive test result following a PCR test you will need to immediately follow the UK self isolation guidelines and obtain a PCR Test. In addition to contacting NHS Test and Trace, please contact enquiries@tkat.org or telephone 0203 740 1808 option 0.
You will also need to make contact with enquires@tkat.org / 0203 740 1808 option 0, and NHS Test and Trace after taking the Home Test AND also the PCR test if the result is positive to let us know the results. We will inform parents after a positive home test result and the PCR test result following the home test.
Emails to enquiries@tkat.org will be monitored on Monday 31st May and the telephone line will be active between 10am and 12noon.
Please give the following details when you make contact with TKAT Central:
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Your name
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Name of your child
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Name of the school
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Year group
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Date the COVID symptoms started (if any)
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Date and time the COVID test was taken and the date and time you received the result.
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A contact number in case TKAT need to call you back
If there is a positive test result reported to the TKAT Centre, they will contact every parent in the school with the information of which year group and the dates needed for isolation. If your child is in the year group stated within the communication, you will need to begin self-isolation for 10 days from your last contact with the person who has tested positive. It’s really important to do this even if you don’t feel unwell because you could still be infectious to others. Your household doesn’t need to self-isolate with you, if you do not have symptoms, but they must take extra care to follow the guidance on social distancing and handwashing and avoid contact with you at home.
Positive result more than 48 hours after leaving school:
If your child develops symptoms more than 48 hours after leaving school, you will need to contact the NHS Test and Trace.
It is a requirement to share results with NHS Test & Trace so that contact tracing (particularly outside the school environment) can take place and clinical evaluation of the testing programme can continue.
You can report a positive test result by using this link:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/testing-and-tracing/
