DOZENS of students from a Colchester secondary school have been forced to self-isolate after three confirmed cases of Covid within one year group.
Philip Morant School and College, in Rembrandt Way, Colchester, has confirmed three year ten students tested positive for coronavirus via PCR tests.
Over the past two weeks the school says it has had five students in year ten report positive test results from home lateral flow tests. Of these, three were confirmed by PCR lab tests.
Close contacts of these students have been forced to self-isolate, with about 130 teenagers understood to have been sent home from school.
All staff and students have been asked to test at home before returning to school from Monday.
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The school has put in place a number of additional measures to try and reduce the spread of Covid amongst pupils.
These include stopping practical work in year 10 music, drama, dance, technology and science.
Contact sports for PE groups in year ten have been stopped.
The dinner queue for the year group has been moved outside and year ten classrooms will be cleaned more often.
The school said Essex Track and Trace had confirmed Covid cases amongst pupils at schools across Colchester and further afield in Essex are high with education facilities working hard to manage the situation through to the end of term.
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