Dear Parents

Welcome to Term 3!  Little did we know that we would be experiencing once again remote learning as a result of the pandemic. I thank you for your patience, supportive and kind comments through emails to myself and our teachers.

Once again thank you to the many parents who have discussed the circumstances necessitating their child/ren attendance at school since the beginning of the term. I respect you contacting me and I wish those families well and of course our school is open for them.

As part of the consideration I have for my staff and students and families I am required to limit the amount of staff onsite to the absolute minimum.

Therefore, as of next Monday we have minimal staff on site for supervision purposes with the majority of teachers working remotely each day. This week we have had an average of 46 students on site each day. Therefore, if you are working from home and have been sending your child/ren to school, please reconsider so that we can reduce the level of interaction between staff and students. We will continue to offer supervision for students of essential workers who need to provide essential service in the community.

The health advice from our elected government leaders and health experts is very clear, we have to work together as a local and wider community to reduce the community spread so that we can come out of lockdown and once again have face to face learning.

This year we have had a smooth transition to remote learning and I thank teachers for the time and preparation that it takes to create the activities and then give feedback to the children . A special thank you to our support staff who are in classrooms allowing our teachers to respond to the children online. We appreciate that some students may not be able to complete all tasks during the school day. Parents are able to support their children outside of these hours, we are truly grateful for the assistance you are providing during home learning. Please don’t hesitate to contact your child’s teacher if there are areas of concern with the learning activities.

Take care, stay safe and may God bless each of your families in the weeks ahead.

Mrs Anne Duggan - Principal