For many teachers, classroom assistants and other staff, the return to school has caused great concern and uncertainty over the potential health risks.
This presents a difficult situation for headteachers, under pressure to balance an optimal educational experience with creating an environment as clean as your typical hospital. However, there are various steps available to school leadership to ensure that educational institutions are kept as hygienic as possible.
Hands up for hygiene
The first important step is ensuring hand hygiene among all parties, something that has been well documented over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. We have all learnt to wash our hands to the tune of “happy birthday” (20 seconds) and lived by the “hands-face-space” mantra.
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