A strictly Orthodox primary school in Barnet has said that pupils who attend a simchah must stay home and not come to school for a week after the event.
Rabbi Yehuda Feldman, headteacher of the independent Torah Vodaas Primary for boys, told parents on Tuesday that “recently there has been a number of people in the community contracting the virus through attending chasunos [weddings] and simchahs”.
The school had been “advised by our local doctors that the school must insist that any child or member of staff attending a chasuna or simchah must not attend school for a full week following the simchah.
“If at the end of the full week they display no symptoms of Covid, they should take a Covid test. We will then welcome back any child with a negative test result.”
