COVID-19 and Art Schools
Your Creative Escapes is committed to offer courses at schools following the most strict sanitary guidelines. Additionally, we offer a new flexible cancelation policy: if you cancelled due to COVID-19 related reasons, you get back all the fees paid, excepting the €50 reservation fee.
Both Spain and Italy are doing everything at their hands and are pursuing a responsible fight against the spread of the COVID-19 virus. From our side at Your Creative Escapes, we can assure you that we are checking and controlling that our art schools are following all the sanitary guidelines recommended by authorities for reduction of contagion by COVID-19 virus.
Basic requirements for art schools:
Schools must assume a firm commitment to risk management, leading the systematic implementation of measures aimed at minimising risk.
Sick students, teachers and other staff should not come to school.
Schools should enforce regular hand washing with safe water and soap, alcohol rub/hand sanitizer or chlorine solution and, at a minimum, daily disinfection and cleaning of school surfaces.
Schools should follow environmental cleaning and decontamination procedures.
Schools should promote social distancing, including limiting large groups of people coming together.
Additionally, we encourage art schools to commit to the following guidelines:
Know the latest facts
Understand basic information about coronavirus disease (COVID-19), including its symptoms, complications, how it is transmitted and how to prevent transmission. Stay informed about COVID-19 through reputable sources such as UNICEF, IFRC, WHO and national health ministry advisories. Be aware of fake information/myths that may circulate by word-of-mouth or online.
Ensure safe school operations
Reinforce frequent handwashing and sanitation and procure needed supplies. Prepare and maintain handwashing stations with soap and water, and if possible, place alcohol-based hand rub (hand sanitizers) in each classroom, at entrances and exits, and near lunchrooms and toilets.
Clean and disinfect school buildings, classrooms, kitchens and dining facilities, and especially water and sanitation facilities at least once a day, particularly surfaces that are touched by many people (railings, lunch tables, door and window handles, teaching and learning aids etc.)
Implement social distancing practices that may include:
• When possible, create space for students’s desks to be at least one metre apart
• Teach and model creating space and avoiding unnecessary touching.
Establish procedures if students or staff become unwell
Plan ahead with local health authorities, school health staff and update emergency contact lists. Ensure a procedure for separating sick students and staff from those who are well – without creating stigma – and a process for informing parents/caregivers, and consulting with health care providers/health authorities wherever possible. Students/staff may need to be referred directly to a health facility, depending on the situation/context, or sent home. Share procedures with staff, parents and students ahead of time.
Fighting COVID-19 with responsibility and positive attitude!