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Large Irish school sends entire Leaving Cert year home after Covid-19 outbreak
School officials wrote an urgent letter to parents and guardians on Thursday
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Sixth year students at an Irish secondary school have been asked to stay home after a Covid-19 outbreak.
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Online classes are continuing for all senior cycle students after the outbreak was confirmed earlier this week
A local secondary school has confirmed that all students in Sixth Year will be Covid tested following an outbreak reported earlier this week.
The positive cases among the students at the school are being linked directly to an outbreak of Covid in the wider Drumshambo area in the last week.
The Vocational School in the town has issued an updated press release following confirmation on Monday that four students in sixth year had contracted the virus.
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As a result, all fifth and sixth years are engaged in online learning, and principal Martin Fallon has confirmed that that following a risk assessment by Public Health Officers, it was decided, as a precautionary measure to send all of our Sixth Year students for Covid Tests.
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The school has implemented its own Covid protocols to ensure that staff or other students are not at risk
A Leitrim secondary school has returned to online classes for its fifth and sixth years after a number of positive Covid cases were confirmed in recent days.
Drumshanbo Vocational School has confirmed in a statement this afternoon that four students, all in the same senior year, have tested positive for Covid.
The school says that as a precaution they have returned to on-line classes for all Fifth & Sixth Years until they receive further advice from the HSE.
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It s back to school time in Longford again as Phase 2 of the school reopening plan gets underway
All primary school children are now back in the classroom
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siobhan.mcnamara@iconicnews.ie
It s back to school time in Longford again as Phase 2 of the school reopening plan gets underway );
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There has been a notable increase in traffic in Longford today as Phase 2 of the reopening of schools after lockdown gets underway.
At primary school level, Third to Sixth Classes returned to school on Monday. With the younger classes already back, this means that all primary school classes are now taking place in the classroom.