the coronavirus pandemic
The government is offering free test kits to all families with school age children. These can be ordered using the link below:
https://www.gov.uk/order-coronavirus-rapid-lateral-flow-tests
Test kits should arrive within two days after ordering. You will receive 7 tests if you choose to have them delivered to your home or 14 if you pick them up from a test centre. Your child must be tested twice a week. It is not recommended to take the tests if your child has had COVID in the 3 months prior to testing, as this may result in a false positive reading.
Important - ELATT still plans to open its doors on the 20th of April 2021, following the Easter break, so we recommend commencing testing the week beginning the 12th of April. For the safety of all our young people and staff, your child will not be able to return to face-to-face learning until we have confirmation of a negative test result. Continual testing is mandatory to allow your child to continue with onsite learning. Learning will continue online if you prefer your child to stay at home.
Once you have received your child's test results, please complete this from with test results.
Please note that your child will not be able to attend without completion of this form declaring a negative result.
Dear Parents and Carers
When we last wrote to you we hoped to be able to test all our students at ELATT on Monday 4 January 2021. Unfortunately the government has now confirmed that we will not receive the tests until Wednesday 6 January. We now expect to be able to test all our students on Thursday 7 January and we will write to confirm early next week.
Due to this, and following the government's latest announcement on school return this evening (or yesterday evening if we send this tomorrow), we will now resume classes with the hybrid model on Monday 4 January. Students who are vulnerable and those who are the children of keyworkers can attend onsite next week, and all other students must study at home. If your child is vulnerable or you are keyworker, you are welcome to keep your child at home in the week of 4 January for reasons of their safety.
Please note that we will take registers next week for all classes whether students are studying at ELATT or at home.
We then expect to return to the normal hybrid timetable from Monday 11 January 2021.
Dear Parents and Carers
In line with new government guidelines, all students are asked to be tested prior to classes starting again in January. The objective is to find out if any of our students are Covid-19 positive but do not show any symptoms.
The government intend to send enough 'rapid-result tests' (called a Lateral Flow Test) for every school or college student in England. The result of the rapid-result test will be available within thirty minutes and, unlike the tests in your local Testing Centre, does not need to be sent to a laboratory.
Following this guidance, we have revised our reopening guidance for our Sixth Form students in January 2021.
We will run a Test Clinic at ELATT on Monday 4 January 2021 so that all our students have an opportunity to take a rapid-result test on site at ELATT.
Please note, if you or any member of your family are not feeling well, please take a test at your local Testing Centre prior to the new term, and do not attend class if you have any symptoms or have tested positive. The rapid-result test is only suitable for students who do not show symptoms.
Students will receive a text message on the week beginning on the 28/12/2020 to confirm that the rapid-result tests have safely arrived at ELATT and the time on Monday 4 January that the student should come to ELATT to have their test. Please do not come to ELATT outside the indicated time.
In order to prioritise the rapid-result testing, there will be no lessons carried out on that day. Classes will resume on Tuesday 5 January 2021.
As people who take this asymptomatic test do not have any symptoms when tested, there is no need to self-isolate. However, if the student tests positive, they will need to take a full test at your local Testing Centre. Your child will need to self-isolate while waiting for the results and then follow further advice.
We all seek to protect our community, ourselves and loved ones. Therefore, students will need to pay even more attention to remain in STRICT bubbles in and outside ELATT and follow our Wear Masks policy when at ELATT.
Visitor arrangements 5 November - 2 December.
ELATT is open during the new national lockdown. However, we are only open to students and visitors by appointment.
To book an appointment, please call 0800-0420-184 or email hello@elatt.org.uk.
Please note that all students and visitors must wear a face covering in all communal areas.
Introduction
In establishing the study plans for September term, the safety of our students and staff is our over-riding concern. All our plans are subject to the level to which the coronavirus is controlled in the wider population. We will be led by government guidance including from the Department for Education.
If you show any symptoms of Covid-19, please do not attend class under any circumstances.
Students will need to wait on the forecourt spaced 1 metre apart prior to entry to our premises.
We reserve the right to take a non-contact temperature test for all students upon entry if levels of infection are rising in our centre area.
Students will be allocated ‘study groups’ for class time and break time.
Classes will be restricted to a maximum of seven people including teacher and/or teaching assistant at any one time.
Students will remain within their ‘study groups’ for the duration of their time on site.
Students will not be allowed out of the classroom during class time other than for bathroom breaks.
Class start and finish times will be staggered to avoid overcrowding in our reception area.
Students must arrive within their allocation entry time.
Breaktimes will be staggered to avoid congestion in our shared areas during the day.
Students will be allowed to drink and have snacks in class away so long as this is away from the computers.
We will make the following adaptations to the physical environment over August 2020:
Students must strictly adhere to these rules:
If you show any symptoms of Covid-19, please do not attend class under any circumstances.
Should any member of your study group become unwell, all members of that study group will need to contract NHS Test and Trace. All members of the study group, including teachers, teaching assistants and any visitors to the group will not be able to attend the physical classroom for 14 days.
You will then need to have a Covid-19 test. In the event it is negative the study group will be able to attend the classroom again.
Common areas
Students will need to wear face coverings in common areas within the building.
Classrooms
At present, and in line with government guidance, we do not intend to require students and staff to wear face coverings in the classroom. However, both students and staff can choose to wear face coverings if they wish.
Meanwhile, for all online learning we continue to meet our Covid-19 online safety guidance as issued in April 2020.
Sixth Form
Adult provision (Adult Vocational, Life Skills)