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GET READY TO COME TO COLLEGE Our Guide to Keeping You Safe Welcome Peterborough College Get Ready to Come to College Peterborough College Get Ready to Come to College Contents WELCOME CONTENTS

Keeping You Safe: Our 7 Point Plan...... 4

Your health, safety and wellbeing are our Moving Around Our Campuses...... 7 number one priority and we have been working hard to get our campuses ready Staying Safe On Campus...... 8 for you to safely come to College. Travel...... 10 We have put a number of safety and Keeping Safe Code of Conduct...... 11 social distancing measures in place to provide a safe and compliant environment and minimise the risk to you and your teachers.

You will find in the following pages the measures we have introduced that you need to be aware of.

2 3 Keeping You Safe: Our 7 Point Plan Peterborough College Get Ready to Come to College Peterborough College Get Ready to Come to College Keeping You Safe: Our 7 Point Plan

KEEPING YOU SAFE: MOVING AROUND OUR 7 POINT PLAN CAMPUS To help you move around our 3 buildings at a safe distance, we have introduced designated entrance points, one-way systems and clearly SOCIAL marked out our corridors. DISTANCING

All of our classrooms, We recognise that 1 workshops and social some people are not spaces have already yet confident being been arranged to make around others so we have sure we meet social introduced a wristband TWEAKED distancing guidelines. scheme. These can be requested by emailing TIMETABLES Face coverings will Well-BeingCentre@ have to be worn when peterborough.ac.uk who We have tweaked our timetables, to avoid travelling on College 4 overcrowding in our entrances, cafés and can asses your needs. transport and moving If you see anyone with social spaces. around campus. We will a wristband on, please provide all student facing There will also be restrictions on how respect their wishes and staff with reusable face many people can use facilities like the keep your distance. shields to be worn as an toilets at any one time. extra precaution when a 2m distance can’t be maintained.

SPACIOUS HAND CAMPUSES SANITISER No matter where you are in the campus, We are really lucky to have such spacious 5 2 you will never be far away from being campuses so that we can spread out and limit able to wash your hands and there will be the numbers of people in each space, ensuring sanitiser readily available. we can be together safely.

4 5 Keeping You Safe: Our 7 Point Plan Peterborough College Get Ready to Come to College Peterborough College Get Ready to Come to College Moving Around Our Campuses

MOVING AROUND EXTRA CLEANING OUR CAMPUSES 6 Our brilliant cleaning team always work hard to make sure our College buildings One-way systems have been introduced across all our campuses are sparkly clean. They have taken this up and these routes are clearly signposted. a notch with a focus on extra cleaning and sanitisation of surfaces. • Please take the stairs if you • There will be a one-way can. Lifts are for essential use system for stairs which will be only and should only be used clearly marked. by one person at a time. If you need to use the lift with a • While it might take you longer carer or support worker, you to move around the building, can use the lift together. we have introduced these new REMINDERS routes for your protection. • Please stop and sanitise your Please make sure you follow We have introduced additional signs to hands before using the lift and the directional signage. remind everyone how they can do their bit to ensure you maintain social 7 help reduce the risk. distancing while waiting. This guide provides information on staying safe on campus before starting College. On EMERGENCY EVACUATION your first day your tutors will cover ‘Keeping You Safe’ as part of your induction. This will If the evacuation alarm sounds, the make sure we all understand what we need to one way systems do not need to be do to keep ourselves and each other safe. followed and you must make your way to the nearest emergency exit regardless of which direction it is. If you are unable to use the stairs, please make your way to the refuge points and call for assistance.

Preservation of life is more important than social distancing and your priority is to get out quickly and safely. However, please try wherever possible to maintain the social distancing measures as you leave the building and once you are at the assembly point.

6 7 Staying Safe On Campus Peterborough College Get Ready to Come to College Peterborough College Get Ready to Come to College Staying Safe On Campus

STAYING SAFE ON CAMPUS

STAYING SAFE IN CLASSROOMS place and increased cleaning will AND WORKSHOPS be undertaken. • Please don’t move any of the chairs, desks or equipment. To avoid overcrowding in social spaces at lunchtime, you can eat • We have arranged each in classrooms. Please ensure you classroom to ensure you can be maintain social distancing and taught safely and meet social tidy up after you have eaten. distancing measures. You can bring to College your own • Choose your seat and stick with packed lunch and you can also it. This will be your personally use the vending machines at all allocated chair and desk. campuses but please remember to sanitise your hands both before • Use your own equipment. and after using them. Please don’t share any items like pens or paper with other SOCIAL SPACES students. You will be able to use the social • Need to leave the room? Please spaces at break times, however RED BADGES SICKNESS PROCEDURES let your teacher know before there will be a reduced number We recognise that some students If you are ill and unable to come leaving. of tables and chairs to maintain and staff will be anxious about into College, please report your social distancing measures. returning to College. We will absence through the normal • Need to sneeze or cough? Each implement a system of badges procedure. Contact the College classroom will have a box of CLEANING which can be worn by any member absence line on 01733 76 2383 tissues, use them, bin it straight Our facilities team will be very of staff or student who wish to away and wash your hands. visible across the campus, with visually indicate to others to take If you feel unwell when you are increased cleaning taking place. extra care around them. in College and suspect you have FOOD AND DRINK symptoms of COVID, please tell Our catering facilities (Venture TOILET FACILITIES This might be because of their your teacher straight away. own health condition or because Lounge, Costa Coffee and Pantry) To help keep you safe, only a they live with someone classed as will be open and we will have limited number of people will be vulnerable or simply because they two additional pop up catering able to use the toilets at any one want additional protection. Badges facilities located around the time. There will be signage on the can be requested by emailing Well- campus. Students will be required toilet door to advise you of this. [email protected] to use the catering facility Please check how many people located in their bubble and social are in the toilet before entering. distancing measures will be in

8 9 Travel Peterborough College Get Ready to Come to College Peterborough College Get Ready to Come to College Keeping Safe Code of Conduct

TRAVEL KEEPING SAFE CODE OF CONDUCT

I have read and understand that I will be required to adhere to the following:

I have read and understand the member I live with, or someone ‘Get Ready to Come to College I have been in close contact If you travel to There will be bike Everyone travelling Our Guide to Keeping You Safe’ with, develops symptoms or College by car, storage available by bus or train booklet and will ensure I follow is diagnosed with COVID-19 I the campus car in the campus must wear some the College guidelines. must not travel to College and parks will be car parks. After form of face follow Government guidelines open. Please locking your bike covering. This can I understand that if I develop with regard to self-isolation ensure you in the rack, please be as simple as a any symptoms of COVID-19 and testing. I must inform the maintain social make sure you use scarf or bandana whilst on site I must inform College immediately. distancing in the the hand sanitiser tied behind your the College and immediately car parks. as soon as you head and it needs leave the campus. I should then I am aware that I may be come into the to cover your follow Government guidelines required to self-isolate if another College. mouth and nose. regarding self-isolation and student that I have been in close testing. contact with develops symptoms or is diagnosed with COVID-19. I am aware that if I experience Face coverings are now mandatory in all shops and on public transport symptoms which may indicate in England. The Government’s guidelines include exemptions for certain COVID-19 or am diagnosed with conditions and hidden disabilities, click here for more information. COVID-19 I must not travel to College and follow Government If you are exempt, have a hidden disability or have a good reason not to guidelines regarding self- wear a face covering please contact the Wellbeing Centre by emailing isolation and testing. I must [email protected] to request an exemption card. inform the College immediately. You will be required to show this when travelling on transport and around I am aware that If a family campus.

We have been working closely with public transport companies who have I understand and agree to my responsibilities and accept that published safety information on their websites with guidance on how to failure to comply with these rules and breach of the College use the transport safely: behaviour policy will result in formal disciplinary action being taken and may result in me being asked to leave the College. You can also read the Government’s latest travel advice here.

If you have queries or concerns about coming into College or any of the measures that we have introduced, please email [email protected]

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