COVID-19 Advice
Information for Families from Wednesday 9th September 2022
Action/Procedure | Yes/No | Notes/Details |
Mask requirements: Classrooms |
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No | However, close contacts must wear masks in the classroom. | |
Locker areas | No |
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Outdoors | No |
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Buses | Yes |
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Chapel | No | Unless ill or vulnerable |
QR Sign-in | No |
Parents, carers and visitors
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Regular school sign-in | Yes | |
Social Distancing | Yes | |
Vaccination Status | No | |
Boarding parents to residences | No |
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Uniform Shop | No |
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Excursions & Camps | Yes |
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Open Days | Yes |
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Sport: College | Yes |
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Interschool | Yes |
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Swimming Carnival | Yes |
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Athletics Carnival | Yes |
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Cross Country | Yes |
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Chapel/Assemblies | Yes |
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Singing | Yes |
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COVID | ||
Symptoms: |
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Day Students | Test | remain home if they have acute symptoms of COVID-19 or other respiratory illnesses |
Boarders | Test | Managed by boarding staff |
Testing: |
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RAT | Yes | Symptomatic testing only |
Positive Result: |
| Staff and Students are required to stay home if they test positive to COVID-19 until they are symptom free. Staff and students are required to notify the school via our online forms if they test positive - this helps us to notify and protect our community from further spread |
Isolation length |
| Until symptom free |
Close contacts |
| Household contacts - monitor for symptoms |
Rapid Antigen Testing Information
- If you recently tested positive for COVID you are not required to complete testing until 28 days after isolation or the resolution of symptoms. If symptoms reappear within those 28 days, please follow standard testing and isolation procedures.
Notification
- If you child is symptomatic and tests positive, you are required under the Public Health Order to immediately notify the NSW government and the school
- Please record the positive RAT result through the Service NSW website or Service NSW app
- Please notify the school through the following form. Please note: only positive tests require notification.
https://www.stpaulscollege.nsw.edu.au/about/covid-result-submission
NSW Health COVID Information
Please be mindful of symptoms such as a fever, cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, runny nose, loss of smell/taste, muscle/joint pains, diarrhoea, nausea/vomiting or extreme tiredness.
If your child develops any of these symptoms, please:
Perform a Rapid Antigen Test or go to a COVID-19 testing clinic (see details below); and call the school to let us know and keep your child at home until symptom free.
You can find your nearest COVID-19 testing clinic here.
Advice and resources are available on the NSW Health website including further information about COVID-19, additional resources are available on the NSW Government website.
Casual Contact Guide & Information
Close Contact Guide & Information
