COVID-19
Michael Jennings (Vaccination Champion)
St Fidelis' Catholic Primary School
LATEST COVID-19 NEWS
(as previously notified in the SkoolBag app)
Changes to COVID-19 requirements for Schools
October 13th 2022
You may be aware that the Victorian Government has announced changes to the COVID-19 isolation requirements.
This means that the mandatory orders around isolation for people with COVID-19 have ended and instead we move to health advice and recommendations for people with COVID-19 or COVID-19-like symptoms.
Our school will continue to adhere to the Department of Health’s recommendations to ensure that our school remains a safe environment for our staff and students.
The Department of Health strongly recommends that students and school staff:
- who test positive for COVID-19, stay home and isolate for 5 days and do not attend school after 5 days if they are still symptomatic
- who are symptomatic but have not tested positive, not attend school. This does not include students with pre-existing conditions such as hay fever.
If your child tests positive for COVID-19, please let us know. You should also continue to notify the Department of Health via their webform or by calling 1800 675 398.
We will no longer report positive cases to the school community.
Please continue to remain vigilant about preventing COVID-19 transmission. Any student who is unwell should continue to remain at home. This helps to keep staff and students healthy and well in our school and reduces the spread of both COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases.
Parents and carers will be contacted if their child shows symptoms while at school.
Students who wish to wear a mask should continue to do so.
To keep our school as safe as possible, we will also continue to use air purifiers and other COVID-19 prevention measures.
Thank you for your continued efforts to keep our school community safe and well.