{"id":310608,"date":"2025-11-27T16:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/310608\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T16:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:55:06","slug":"school-to-stay-shut-on-friday-after-pupils-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/310608\/","title":{"rendered":"School to stay shut on Friday after pupils&#8217; illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A school is set to remain closed for the remainder of the week following high numbers of pupils suffered flu-like symptoms, a headteacher has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Congleton High School in Cheshire was first shut on Wednesday, to enable a deep clean of the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The school was set to reopen on Monday, headteacher Heidi Thurland said in a letter to parents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, public health officials at Cheshire East Council said children and staff must not attend if they experience diarrhoea, vomiting, Covid-19, influenza-like illness or a high temperature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Teaching would continue on Friday via the Arbor remote learning platform, Ms Thurland confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We have been impressed with the engagement of students who have been well enough to do so,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Support from community&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The school has taken advice from the UK Health Security Agency, as well as Cheshire East Council&#8217;s health protection team and infection control team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Our priority throughout this has been the safety and wellbeing of our students and staff,&#8221; Ms Thurland said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I would like to acknowledge the support from the community in appreciating the steps we have needed to take.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Infection rates remained high among students and staff her letter added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We are very much looking forward to welcoming our community back to school. We anticipate we will be fully open to all students on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I will aim to communicate this decision on Sunday by 16:00 GMT.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/topics\/cp7r8vglny2t?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:more Cheshire stories from the BBC;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">more Cheshire stories from the BBC<\/a> and follow BBC Stoke &amp; Staffordshire on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/curation\/p0cjdz16?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BBC Sounds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BBC Sounds<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BBCStokeandStaffordshire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcmtd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">X<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcstoke\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related internet links<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A school is set to remain closed for the remainder of the week following high numbers of pupils&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,137929,137926,84,138768,135657],"class_list":["post-310608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cheshire-east-council","tag-congleton-high-school","tag-health","tag-heidi-thurland","tag-public-health-officials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}