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GUIDE FOR ALL VISITORS
Dear Guest,
As I am sure you are aware the COVID virus is impacting every area of society, schools included. There is on our website a full risk assessment that outlines all of the steps that we have taken at Highams Park School to mitigate against the spread of the virus, please do feel free to access and read the full document.
However, to aid your efficient understanding of procedures please familiarise yourself with the following summary of the key points that you will need to be aware of:
- If you have any symptoms of COVID, please do not enter any further into the school building. Immediately leave and follow the Government guidance on obtaining a test.
- If you start to feel unwell with potential symptoms of the virus, while you are visiting Highams Park School, please ask a member of staff to contact our School Welfare Officer on ext. 137 for you, as soon as possible and stay where you are. Do not enter another office or classroom. She will visit you and outline where you should proceed to.
- Face masks should be worn whilst you travel around the school, and if you are unable to maintain 1m distancing from those you are meeting with. As an external guest to the school you are expected to provide your own mask for this purpose.
- Please sign in at reception on arrival as normal. This register will be used with the contact details we already hold for you, to cooperate with the Government’s Track and Trace Scheme, should it be requested.
- On arrival and before proceeding around the rest of the school, the receptionist will take your temperature, before granting you access to the main school building.
- Hand sanitiser is located in reception, for your use and in each teaching room around the school. Please use it on entry and exit, if you are not able to use your own personal supply.
- There is a one-way system in operation in all areas of the school. Please follow this as you move around the school, this will help to reduce the potential face to face meetings that you may have whilst visiting Highams Park School.
- If you are delivering a lesson in a classroom, please familiarise yourself with the “staff zone” at the front of each room. This is a space for staff only, and provides them with a space to work from during the lesson. Please make use of it. You are not restricted to only staying within it for the whole lesson and you are able to circulate around the class for brief moments, as required, but please be mindful of maintaining your distance from students as much as possible.
- When seated in a classroom and facing in the same direction, students may remove their face masks. They may also wish to keep them on if they prefer to do so.
- Whilst teaching or meeting with a student, staff may continue to wear a face mask if they wish to do so. But once in the meeting or classroom, if you are content that a suitable distance can be maintained from others, colleagues may remove their face mask.
- Each staff office has a “COVID” working capacity displayed on the door. Please respect these loadings and liaise with colleagues, should you need to find alternative venues to work from. As far as possible, meetings with external visitors to the school will be conducted by phone or from the meeting rooms located at each reception area.
- Should you need to use the toilet whilst on site, you are welcome to use any of the staff toilets. Please be mindful of the handwashing advice provided by the Government and utilise the soap and handtowels provided.
September 2020
