Please notify school straight away, if your family is having to self isolate.

Updated 25/08/20

The following information is from the NHS information pages:

Main symptoms

The main symptoms of coronavirus are:

• a high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)
• a new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)
• a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste – this means you've noticed you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal

Most people with coronavirus have at least 1 of these symptoms.

What to do if you have symptoms

If you have any of the main symptoms of coronavirus:

1. Get a test to check if you have coronavirus as soon as possible.
2. Stay at home and do not have visitors until you get your test result – only leave your home to have a test.

Anyone you live with, and anyone in your support bubble, must also stay at home until you get your result.

Do not go to a GP surgery, pharmacy or hospital.

You do not need to contact 111 to tell them you're staying at home.

Coronavirus in children

Children can get coronavirus (COVID-19), but they seem to get it less often than adults and it's usually less serious.

Symptoms of coronavirus in children

The main symptoms of coronavirus are:

• a high temperature
• a new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot, for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours
• a loss or change to sense of smell or taste – this means they cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal

What to do if your child has symptoms

If your child has any of the main symptoms of coronavirus:

1. Get a test to check if they have coronavirus as soon as possible.
2. Stay at home and do not have visitors until you get the test result – only leave your home to have a test.

Anyone you live with, and anyone in your support bubble, must also stay at home until you get the result.

Click here to get a test to check for Coronavirus

What is a support bubble?

IMPORTANT

Get advice from NHS 111 if you're worried about your child or not sure what to do.

• For children aged 5 or over – use the NHS 111 online coronavirus service.
• For children under 5 – call 111.

What to do if your child seems very unwell

Children and babies will still get illnesses that can make them very unwell quickly. It's important to get medical help if you need it.

Urgent advice:Call 111 or your GP surgery if your child:

• is under 3 months old and has a temperature of 38^oC or higher, or you think they have a fever
• is 3 to 6 months old and has a temperature of 39^oC or higher, or you think they have a fever
• has other signs of illness, such as a rash, as well as a high temperature (fever)
• has a high temperature that's lasted for 5 days or more
• does not want to eat, or is not their usual self and you're worried
• has a high temperature that does not come down with paracetamol
• is dehydrated – for example, nappies are not very wet, sunken eyes, and no tears when they're crying

Immediate action required:Call 999 if your child:

• has a stiff neck
• has a rash that does not fade when you press a glass against it (use the "glass test" from Meningitis Now)
• is bothered by light
• has a seizure or fit for the first time (they cannot stop shaking)
• has unusually cold hands and feet
• has pale, blotchy, blue or grey skin
• has a weak, high-pitched cry that's not like their usual cry
• is drowsy and hard to wake
• is extremely agitated (does not stop crying) or is confused
• finds it hard to breathe and sucks their stomach in under their ribs
• has a soft spot on their head that curves outwards
• is not responding like they usually do, or not interested in feeding or usual activities

Ideas to support your EYFS child:

• Read a story and talk about the characters
• Practise phonics as often as you can
• Practise counting
• Talking about shapes and finding some in the home
• Letter and number formation
• Interact and play games

Ideas to support your Year 1 child:

• Find objects around your home and use your phonics to label them.
• Read a book everyday and write a sentence about what happened in the story, remembering to include capital letters and full stops.
• Collect 10 pairs of socks, use them to practise counting in 2s
• Get a pile of your favourite toys or Lego, group them into tens and ones and count how many you have
• Get some seeds and plant them, record how high your plant grows each day

Ideas to support your Year 2 child:

• Read everyday
• Write book reviews for the books you finish
• Keep a diary
• Practise 2, 5 and 10 times tables
• Complete calculations using all four operations (+, -, x and ÷)
• Measure objects around your home and record the lengths
• Go on a 3D shape hunt, write the names of all the shapes you find, then make a table and record the number of faces, edges and vertices for each object.
• Collect some coins from your money box, list the coins you have and find the total amount. Try to make the same amount using different coins.

Ideas to support your Year 3 child:

• Recall 3, 4 and 8 multiplications as well as their division facts
• Use everyday objects to write fractions
• Compare, order, add and subtract fractions with the same denominators
• Measure objects around the house using a ruler and record in mm and cm
• Baking is a perfect way to measure mass, capacity and time
• Tell and write the time in 24 hour and analogue - do this at certain times of the day. Try to create a timetable
• Draw 2D shapes and use a ruler to measure their sides
• Add and subtract money using both pounds and pence
• Ensure your child reads every day. Ask your child to give you a recount of what they have read.
• Ask your children to keep a diary and include:
   - Conjunctions (if, since, at when, although, because),                                                                                             - adverbs and prepositions (during, before, after, behind, in front of, between) to make sentences longer               - Speech in sentences

Ideas to support your Year 4 child:

• Read every day. Ask questions about what might happen next, you could write these down and see if you were correct
• Write a book review
• Practise timetables
• Practise spellings
• Encourage addition and subtraction using money. How much change?
• Use everyday objects to practise fractions - how much pizza have you eaten? What fraction of the socks are blue? What fraction of the cars you can see are red?
• Make a plan to decorate a room and measure the perimeter
• Write an explanation text about your favourite hobby

Ideas to support your Year 5 child:

• Read lots of different types of texts and discuss them
• Estimate the area and perimeter of the rooms in your house
• Write a story including direct speech and parenthesis
• Create different fractions using everyday objects, then record and compare them
• Practise Y5/6 spelling words
• Recap specific grammatical terminology
• Practise multiplying 4 digit numbers by 1 or 2 digit numbers
• Practise dividing 4 digit numbers by a 1 digit numbers
• Read, write, order and compare decimals, for example money

Ideas to support your Year 6 child:

• Recap specific grammatical terminology
• Practise spellings from the Y5/6 word list and put them in sentences
• Read lots of different types of texts and discuss them
• Practise calculating using all 4 written methods of calculation (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division)
• Explore equivalences between fractions, decimals and percentages
• Practise calculations using fractions and decimals
• Find fractions and percentages of amounts