Cowes Enterprise College has told even more students to stay at home following another positive test result for COVID-19 – the third case in just over a week.
Year 8 students were all sent home on 6th November as a result of a positive case amongst the school community.
Earlier this week a staff member tested positive for COVID-19, which led to a further 12 students being told to self-isolate. The staff member hadn’t been in school for several days, however.
Now, a number of other students – believed to be in Year 7 – have been told to stay off school until 30th November, switching to remote learning. Phone calls and emails were sent out this afternoon confirming another case.
UPDATE @ 20:00 – Island Echo understands a total of 65 pupils and 5 members of staff have now been told to stay at home. This is in addition to the 12 from earlier this week and the Year 8 bubble on 6th.
It’s thought both Year 7 and 12 have been affected, with 2 cases identified.
Meanwhile, the headteacher of St Saviour’s Catholic Primary School has confirmed that a member of the school community has tested positive for COVID-19.
Due to the time that has elapsed since the individual who has tested positive was last in school, there is no need for any students to isolate.
The news comes just hours after Greenmount Primary School confirmed that its Year R class have been told to stay at home for 2 weeks.
A number of other schools have had positive test results in the past 2 weeks too including St Thomas of Canterbury in Carisbrooke, as previously reported by Island Echo. As of last week, 403 students were self isolating.
857 cases of the coronavirus have been recorded on the Isle of Wight start the start of the pandemic.
Need to lock down the schools
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That would be wise.
That’s about 18-19 educational settings now! All within a few weeks.
I thought whole year groups were considered a bubble in high schools. why isnt the whole year being sent home this time?
Keep these spreaders at home !
Shut all schools otherwise we will be up in the next tier after 2nd December, it’s not rocket science people…..
Hardly surprising when siblings of those in the affected bubble who are in a different bubble for 7 hrs a day at school but mix for 17 hours a day are still going to school. Most kids with it from gov scientist reports are asymptomatic and spreading it to each other, unless testing of all school kids is done (like they did for universities) it will continue to spread out of control.
Simple Solution include schools in the LOCKDOWN Immediately.
When enough people know that Hancock knew CV19 was reclassified as not being a High Consequence Infectious Disease on 13/03/2020 [and we can prove it with FOI responses alone], COVID1984 will soon come to an end.
doesnt surprise me the amount of school children that come in shop with no masks and the amount that go round together in groups out of school