Covid Program

 

Justification

This program has been created to set up the guideline to guarantee the security and safeness for all members in our educational community against COVID19, according to the regulation established by the government and the local authorities from JCYL.

This instruction will be focused on achieving a face-to-face high-quality education, where both our students and all staff members will be able to work together in a safe environment. The program will also offer guidance to the parents to ensure the safeguard and protection against virus spread.

To be able to carry out this premise we will define how we can act facing a suspected case to provide an early detection and avoid new outbreak. 

A suspected case of COVID-19 infection includes anyone with a sudden onset acute respiratory infection with symptoms of fever of more than 37.5º Celsius, cough, lack of breath, odynophagia, anosmia, ageusia, muscles pain, diarrhoea, chest pain, and/or headaches. This also includes:

• Anyone who has been in close contact with a confirmed case.

• Those who have been cared for a confirmed case such as health personnel or family members with similar physical contact.

• Anyone who has been less than 2 meters away for more than 15 minutes with housemates, guests, …

Taking this into account, before starting the school year, all staff members must be already fully vaccinated and, in any case, NO member from our staff will come to the school with symptoms, illness or after being in contact with the situations mentioned above. They will inform the school about the situation and the instructions provided from their doctors.

In that regard, we also think that it is very important to be conscious of the situation and health education and promotion, where teachers have an important role in showing and supervising a good respiratory etiquette as well as keeping the correct hygiene measurements, but also taking care of aspects related to prevention and emotional wellness. The guidelines we propose focus the attention on:

• Prevention: Symptoms of the illness, how to act when symptoms appear, measures of physical distance and limitation of contacts, proper use of the mask, and co-responsibility in one’s own health and that of others.

• Hygiene: Correct hand washing; respiratory etiquette consisting of covering the mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing using a single-use tissues or using the inside of the elbow; postural, and sleep hygiene.

• Emotional Wellness: Personal and emotional autonomy, empathy, confidence, self-regulation of stress and anxiety, and be able to face daily challenges, such as COVID-19.

Applicable law

• Protocolo de organización y prevención en los centros educativos de castilla y león para el curso escolar 2021/2022

• Guía de la consejería de educación en relación a la adopción de las medidas de limpieza, higiene y prevención en los centros educativos con motivo del covid-19 para el curso escolar 2021/2022.

• Guía de actuación ante la aparición de casos de COVID- 19 en centros educativos en Castilla y León

• Declaración responsable (a cumplimentar por el PADRE, MADRE O TUTOR)

Planed actions

The basic preventive and control measures that the school propose to carry out along the school year include:

1. Contact limit:

• Keep a physical distance of 1,5 meters among the members of the educational community, trying to avoid physical contact such as shake hands, hug or kiss.

• Access to the school and mobility through entry, exit, indoors and outside will be following the colour signs/zones shown on the floors and walls, using Green for 3 years, Yellow por 4 years and Red for 5 years, and the timetable assigned to each level.

• Main Classroom

• Establish a bubble group in each class, which will not be in touch with other groups from different levels.

• Meetings among parents and tutors will be carried out by phone or video calls, or through emails 

• School Facilities 

• The use of school facilities will be reduced. The teachers will be moving around the different facilities with their own bubble group.

• Try to use the same furniture at the different classes that are not their main one.

2. Measures for personal prevention:

• Measurement of children's temperature when they arrive at school.

• Respiratory hygiene to limit transmission. All staff members and visitors (parents) must wear the face covering mask properly. Although it will not be compulsory under the age of 6, but, it will be requested of the children to bring a mask to school in case it is required again from the government’s contingency plan.

• Hand sanitiser will be available in all spaces at the school and we will ask for regular hands cleaning with soap and water every time children goes to the toilet, cough or sneeze 

• Main Classroom 

• Each main classroom will have their own material for the bubble group, including teacher and children, which won’t be shared with others groups. It will be disinfected at the end of the day and sometimes along the day when it is needed. 

• Students must bring to the school, properly labelled with their names, a fabric bag with a water bottle and a snack

• School facilities 

• At common used classes it will be asked to use sanitiser or wash hands before and after each use.

• Fountains will be closed and it will be forbidden to drink directly from sinks.

3. Disinfection and ventilation:

• All facilities will have a monitor to check the CO2 levels, which indicate the need for airflow. Increased ventilation on each close area, keeping the windows open as needed. At least 5 minutes per hour and all day in the toilets.

• Each bubble group will have their own material that cannot be shared with other groups or levels. It will be disinfected at the end of the day. 

• It will be available a disinfection kit on each class to clean door and window handles, every time the bubble group change the room

• Main classroom 

• Bathrooms and toilets inside the class will be permanently ventilated and clean twice a day. We strongly recommend closing the toilet lid before flushing the toilet.

• School facilities

• At the beginning and the end of the day all facilities will be clean, including not only furniture and equipment, but also door and window handles, buttons, switches, handrails among any other thing that could be used. 

• Additional cleaning along the day, for common spaces each time they are used. Materials or resources used by different groups will be disinfected after each use.

4. Case Management

• Parents will be asked to sign a responsibility statement in order to bring the children to school. (Anexo I)

• If any child shows symptoms during the day or it is confirmed any positive case from children, the person will remain in self-isolation, in an isolated room until parents arrive. It will provide masks and screens for the child and the teacher who takes care of the case. If a sick person shows serious symptoms 112 will be called. Additional cleaning and disinfection will be done at any space used by the infected person.

• When a case is confirmed, School Management will contact the Territorial Health Delegation and will follow the indications of Epidemiology/Health Management.

• Classroom 

• Any child who is feeling sick in class should let the teacher know, who will check for additional symptoms such as fever (37.5º), diarrhea, muscle pain…

• When a case is confirmed, school will contact the families from the bubble group where the case belongs to and ask them to remain in a quarantine period and not come to school.