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COVID-19 Update

Kaya WCSS Community,

Please find following information provided to all independent schools from AISWA.

COVID-19 Guidelines and Q&As - Updated November 2022

Schools are safe and open for learning

Keeping our schools open and providing face-to-face learning to students is important to their learning, social and emotional development, and physical and mental wellbeing.

These guidelines have been developed for schools and residential facilities.

Testing positive to COVID-19

To reduce the risk to others it is recommended that staff and students:

stay home until symptoms have resolved. The infectious period for COVID-19 varies. A minimum of 5 days is a useful guide, but it can be 10 days or longer
register positive RAT results through the Department of Health website
if you must leave the house, wear a mask when indoors and on public transport
avoid large gatherings and indoor crowded places.

COVID-19 positive cases and close contacts cannot visit public hospitals for 7 days.

Schools are not required to report confirmed positive cases to the Department of Health.

Close contact

A close contact is a household or household-like contact, or intimate partner of a person with COVID-19 who has had contact with them during their infectious period.

Isolation for close contacts is no longer mandated, but staff and students in schools who are close contacts are encouraged to test for COVID-19 daily for 5 days and only attend school following a negative RAT result.

Close contacts may choose to wear a mask.

Masks

Students, staff, and visitors to a school or residential facility may choose to wear a mask.

School attendance

As always students should not attend school if they are unwell.

Health and hygiene

Each person has a responsibility to protect themselves and others. This is achieved through the ongoing promotion of the following good hygiene principles and practices:

staff, students, and parents/carers and visitors stay home when sick
covering mouth and nose when coughing and sneezing, using a flexed elbow or tissue and disposing of tissues appropriately
washing hands regularly for 20 seconds with soap and water or an alcohol-based hand rub, including prior to meal breaks

Warm regards,

WCSS Administration