Welcome back 2022

Dear Parents

We look forward to welcoming everyone back to school tomorrow on Tuesday 4th January. We trust you all had a lovely peaceful Christmas and wish you all health and happiness in the new school year 2022.

This current phase of the pandemic is highly transmissible in the community and we wish to keep existing Health and Safety measures in place. We would like to remind all parents when collecting children at school to abide with social distancing and wear masks unless exempt. 

Guidance on isolation and close contacts can be found on nidirect.gov.uk 

Do note that the Department of Health has revised its guidance on self isolation for close contacts. Fully vaccinated close contacts of a positive case will no longer have to take a PCR test. Instead they take a lateral flow test and continue to take daily until the tenth day after the last date of contact with the positive case. Of course if pupils are symptomatic they need to stay at home.

Also the NI Executive has also announced a change to the rules on self isolation for positive cases from 10 days to 7  days, providing the individual has negative lateral flow test results on both days 6 and 7 with tests taken 24 hours apart.

Please contact the school office before 12 noon or seesaw your child’s class teacher each morning to inform the school of your child’s absence or if you have any further queries regarding guidance.

On behalf of everyone at St Peter’s, I wish you and your families God’s blessing for a healthy, happy and safe 2022.

Yours Sincerely 

S Falls (Principal)