Lateral flow testing, primary school staff

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We will be starting LFT for covid at some point next week. Testing ourselves twice a week before heading into work. For anyone who is already doing this, what happens if you test positive? Does the bubble close straight away or does the positive adult have to have the test result from a test centre first? I know in secondary schools the protocol is that close contact staff and students take daily LFT but obviously primary pupils are not being tested.

At our school we have to do Sun and Wed on the weeks we're in before 7pm. Same on our standby week. If it's positive on a Sun, standby teacher swaps in with yu, you book a proper test. Class not affected so in as normal. If it's a Wed, class and you isolate until you've had a proper test to confirm. If negative, all back. If positive class isolates. Primary, working on a 3 week rota in school across our federation of 4 very small primaries (all on one site).

You're always on standby the week before your week in class. The week after, you don't need to do the tests.

Anyone with a positive covid test within the last 90 days doesn't do the test as it may give a positive result even when you are no longer infectious. Anyone who has had the jab still does the test. When we've done it at home we log it with whoever is heading the team that week - pic of the code and our result.

Seems as sensible as it can be!.

See, I WAS listening in the Zoom meeting...

We are a 1 form entry so all in pretty much as normal. Therefore if one of us tests positive on lateral flow yes the whole bubble isolates from then. If PCR negative then we could all go back but my understanding is false positives are extremely rare.

We’re doing them in the evening as well to make logistics easier to sort in case of positive test.

Thats really helpful thanks. We have been told to test in the morning as it’s more reliable then but obviously if anyone tests positive the logistics of closing the bubble becomes crazy! It will certainly be interesting to see, if as adults, we are asymptotic.

We're starting next week and been advised to do Sunday and Wednesday nights ( we were going to do mornings but doing nights just to allow for sorting if there's a +ve from anyone)
I'm assuming the bubble closes if anyone is but if -ve on the follow up PCR test we'd just go back. We're a one form entry too so would just be a straight closure of the bubble, I'm guessing.

They recommend the morning but the evening is fine.

We’ve been told Monday and Wednesday mornings before school. I will have to get up earlier! I think they close the bubble immediately if you test positive.

The whole thing is quite a palaver - test, email school, record on gov website (regardless of results).

We haven’t started the tests in our school yet. But I do have two teacher friends in other schools that tested positive whilst asymptomatic. One of them DID develop a loss of taste & smell after a few days but the other went the entire two weeks feeling absolutely fine.....