Can I Teach My Students Face To Face Yet? – YES

The following key steps are a summary of the priority actions you need to take to protect yourself and your students when teaching the drums.

Complete a COVID-19 risk assessment, including consideration of the reasonable adjustments needed for yourself and students with disabilities. Share it with all your family if teaching from home.

Clean more often. Increase how often you clean surfaces, especially those that are being touched a lot. make sure you and your students use hand sanitiser and wash their hands frequently.

Ask your students to wear face coverings where required to do so by law, and in any indoor space. This is especially important if your students are likely to be around people they do not normally meet.

Make sure everyone is social distancing. Make it easy for everyone to do so by putting up signs or if possible  introducing a one-way system that your students can follow.

Provide adequate ventilation where people are in enclosed spaces. This can be natural ventilation (opening windows, doors and vents), mechanical ventilation (fans and ducts), or a combination of both.

You must take part in NHS Test and Trace by keeping a record of all your customers, visitors and staff for 21 days. This is a legal requirement. Some exemptions apply.

Turn people with coronavirus symptoms away. If you, anyone in your household or a student has a persistent cough, a high temperature or has lost their sense of taste or smell, they should self-isolate and get a test.

Please check back to see up to date advise for music teachers and don’t forget to see our previous posts on teaching drums in covid lockdown. All the latest Government advice for drummers and drum teachers will be posted here first.