He mihi mahana ki a koutou katoa - Warm greetings to all.

On Wednesday the Minister of Education announced that Rapid Antigen Tests (RATS) would be available to schools for use with staff and to send home with children that become unwell or show symptoms at school. We have already begun this with staff with RATS the school has purchased.

We will follow our normal process when we have a child who shows symptoms. When the parent arrives to pick them up we will provide a RAT to take home and administer. When this happens please tell us the results via the school APP. 

WE WILL NOT BE ADMINISTERING RATS.

We currently have 21 cases and they are in Spaces 1,1a,3,6,9,10,13,14,15,17,18.  At this stage we have no patterns in any particular room. If and when we do we will report this to the caregivers of the rooms concerned.