As part of the roadmap to leave lockdown, Charters School in Sunningdale is preparing to welcome its students back to school after offering mass Covid19 testing for staff and students.
Two testing centres have been created in the main hall and gymnasium to enable the school to carry out testing for two year-group bubbles per day. Parents have been sent links to book individual time slots for their children. Year 11 and Sixth Form students will be tested on Monday 8th March and those receiving a negative result will return to the classrooms the following day. Years 10 and 9 will be tested on Tuesday 9th, with those in Years 7 & 8 taking their tests on Wednesday 10th.
Once lessons resume, all year-groups will be tested a further two times in the testing centres. To ensure any positive cases continue to be detected, students and staff will then be provided with 2 rapid tests each week to use at home.
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said, “I know this is a moment that students and parents up and down the country have been waiting for, and I would like to take this opportunity to give my thanks to all education and childcare staff and parents who have worked so hard to make sure students have continued to receive a high-quality education throughout this lockdown. The testing of staff and students ahead of their return to secondary schools and colleges, alongside strengthened safety measures, should reassure families and education staff that extra measures are in place alongside the existing bubble system, enhanced hygiene and COVID secure precautions.”
Mr John Fletcher, Headteacher at Charters School said, “We are very much looking forward to having all our students back in school and supporting them. We have missed seeing and hearing them around the school site. This is only possible due to the flexibility of staff and the generosity of members of a local community giving up their time to come into school to help the testing process.”