From Ms Allum – COVID Update

From Ms Allum – COVID Update

There continue to be a handful of new positive COVID cases reported to us each day, as well as students who are staying home because they are household contacts or for other non-COVID related reasons that range from representing the school in sport to flooding houses!

While we are aware that other schools have different levels of COVID within their community, we are thankful that the incidence of COVID within the SCEGGS community remains low at this stage. For example, on Wednesday this week, there were 74 students away from school (25 in Primary and 49 in Secondary). Only 13 of these students have tested posted for COVID (four in Primary and nine in Secondary) and these students come from six different year groups. While these numbers remain low, we will continue with our original approach of not emailing you every day to report case numbers.

We will also continue to monitor these daily absences carefully, and would remind parents:

  • To monitor your daughters for symptoms each and every day and keep them at home even if they have the mildest of symptoms. Do a RAHT test as soon as possible.
  • If your daughter is away from school, please email absences@sceggs.nsw.edu.au as soon as possible with the reasons for her absence so that we can classify these accordingly.
  • If you have a positive RAHT test or PCR test for your daughter, please notify the School of this positive result by emailing absences@sceggs.nsw.edu.au as soon as possible (this is a legal requirement under the current health orders) and register this positive result with NSW Health too.
  • If your daughter is unwell and away from school for other health reasons, and has received a negative RAHT result, it would also be helpful to include this information in the email.

These steps will assist us in continuing to monitor the situation closely, identifying any changes in the spread of the disease in our community and then informing you accordingly.

All girls from K-12 should also bring home an additional FIVE RAHT tests this week to assist in the ongoing monitoring of COVID at SCEGGS. We would encourage all families to use these at least once per week, and at any time their daughter has any symptoms.

Jenny Allum