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 https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus 

About Coronavirus (COVID-19)

COVID-19: guidance for education settings

NHS East Riding of Yorkshire CCG

Following the latest Government advice, we would like to remind parents that:

• Children should stay at home if they are unwell with a new, continuous cough or a high temperature to avoid spreading infection to others. Otherwise they should attend school as normal.
• If children become unwell on site with a new, continuous cough or a high temperature they should be sent home.
• If one person in any household has a persistent cough or fever, everyone living there must stay at home for 14 days.

Please also see the latest advice with regards to young people who may be at more risk. The latest guidance from the NHS states that this is anyone under 70 with an underlying health condition listed below. The recommendation is that these people are particularly stringent in following social distancing measures.

• chronic (long-term) respiratory diseases, such as asthma , chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) , emphysema or bronchitis 
• chronic heart disease, such as heart failure 
• chronic kidney disease 
• chronic liver disease, such as hepatitis 
• chronic neurological conditions, such as Parkinson’s disease , motor neurone disease , multiple sclerosis (MS) , a learning disability or cerebral palsy
• diabetes 
• problems with your spleen – for example, sickle cell disease or if you have had your spleen removed
• a weakened immune system as the result of conditions such as HIV and AIDS , or medicines such as steroid tablets or chemotherapy 
• being seriously overweight (a BMI of 40 or above)
• those who are pregnant.

There are some health conditions which put people at even higher risk of severe illness from Covid-19. For these, you should rigorously follow the social-distancing advice in full. These are:

• People who have received an organ transplant and remain on ongoing immunosuppression medication
• People with cancer who are undergoing active chemotherapy or radiotherapy
• People with cancers of the blood or bone marrow such as leukaemia who are at any stage of treatment
• People with severe chest conditions such as cystic fibrosis or severe asthma (requiring hospital admissions or courses of steroid tablets)
• People with severe diseases of body systems, such as severe kidney disease (dialysis)

If you determine that your child falls into any of the above categories, we would completely support your decision for them to remain absent from school.

 

Integrated Specialist Public Health Nursing Service

Pleased click on the ISPHNS website link https://humberisphn.nhs.uk/ which will be a useful resource for many Parent/Carer queries.

School Nurses are available 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday, via ChatHealth – our confidential text messaging service. The contact number for ChatHealth is 07507 332891.

 

Educational Arrangements

We are now starting to set up remote online learning in case we are forced to close.

In the event that your child needs to self isolate, please see the attached Remote/Distance Learning Arrangements document below. If you need to contact the academy you can do so by emailing us at:

•    office@holderness.academy (for general enquires)

•    attendance@holderness.academy (for attendance queries and advice)

•   data@holderness.academy (to confirm the contact details we hold for you)

•   _itsupport@holderness.academy (if your child experiences any technical issues with remote                 learning access)

Alternatively, you can telephone us on 01482 899315.

If you have limited access to the Internet please contact office@holderness.academy or telephone 01482 899315 to request students' work in paper form. 

 

School Events

As an Academy we have taken upon the decision to cancel the following events:                               (We will regularly update the list of any further cancellations should they happen) 

• Year 10 Parents' Evening - Thursday 26 March 2020
• Trips due to take place in the Spring Term & Easter Holidays
• All sports fixtures

We have yet to receive any further guidance from OFQUAL as to whether external examinations will be affected. As it is currently, exams are scheduled to take place when timetabled.

 

Learners Entitled To A Free School Meal

We are pleased to announce that we have linked up with a company called Wonde, which has enabled us to create an electronic free school meal voucher. Wonde will be sending an email or text containing a link to those that are entitled to Free School Meals.

Clicking on the link will allow you to select a supermarket of your choice. A voucher is then shown which can be taken in-store or spent online. The first voucher you will receive will be £23.00 for each child eligible for free school meals in your family on roll at Holderness Academy. This equates to an allowance of £2.30 each day for 10 days from Monday 23 March to Friday 3 April. The voucher does not have to be spent all in one go.