VISITORS

Risk Assessment for Visitors coming in to School

Keeping St Martin De Porres School Safe

This academic year visitors to school are permitted strictly by appointment only, and only when your visit is essential.
If you are visiting our Schools with an appointment, please make sure that:

• You sign in on arrival;
• You wash and/or sanitise your hands when you arrive and as necessary during your visit;
• You carry a mask or face covering and wear it as required;
• You maintain a safe distance (at least 1 metre, and ideally two meters) from other people at all times.

 
We have comprehensive processes in place to keep our community safe. Further details are available on request, but key points include:

• We have developed a clear protocol and provision in the event of a member of staff or pupil presenting with COVID-19 symptoms while at school. This includes clearly defined safe areas for isolation until an individual can safely travel home.
• We have put in place facilities to sanitise hands by installing hand gel dispensers at all external entry points and in all classrooms.
• We have provided tissues to all classrooms, along with lidded waste bins for the safe storage of used tissues.
• We are asking all staff to wear masks at the gate at arrival and dismissal times.
• We have put in place a comprehensive communications plan, delivered through posters across the site and verbal reminders from staff, to ensure good hand and respiratory hygiene.
• We have significantly enhanced cleaning provision.
• Our students have been grouped in “class bubbles”, to help minimise any unnecessary contact and enable us to track any close contacts quickly if need arises.
• We are social distancing as much as possible: verbal reminders and posters are reiterating the messaging, classrooms and dining rooms have been laid out to minimise face-to-face contact.
• We have designated discrete, distinct year group pick up locations to avoid mixing at the end of each day.
• We have strict controls in place to ensure parents/carers do not come into school unless it is essential, and by appointment only.
• We have a fluid start to the school day, which allows children to come in to school and straight to their class bubble anytime between 8.30am and 9.00am. Each Key stage has its own gate entrance.
• We have a staggered end of the day, which sees children with siblings going home first at 3pm. They leave the school site via gates closest to their home. Children with no siblings in school then leave at 3.15pm. This means there will be little/no gathering of parents outside school grounds.
• All our pupils and staff are sanitising their hands on entry to school. 

 
How You Can Help Us:
Limiting the spread of infection is everyone’s responsibility. You can help us to keep our community safe by:

• Washing your hands frequently, with soap and water.
• Using tissues (or the crook of your elbow) whenever you need to cough or sneeze, disposing safely of your used tissues and washing your hands immediately.
• Staying at least 2m apart from other people,
• Staying away from school if you have symptoms, have tested positive for Covid-19, or have been in close contact with a confirmed case, in line with Government guidance.
• Respecting and supporting all of the safety measures that we have put in place.

If you have a visit planned to our school in the near future, please complete and submit the consent form below. Thank you.