Our Executive Team hosted two separate luncheons with our Year 7-10 and our Year 11-12 Student Representative Council recently to obtain student feedback and suggestions to assist in continuing to provide the best possible education and school experience for students.

These meetings were a great opportunity for students to provide feedback on what they believe is working well and areas for growth with valuable discussions taking place. We are very blessed to have such amazing and passionate students in our school and look forward to moving forward together.

We thank families for working together to follow the NSW Health Guidelines to best protect our community, and provide the following reminder around attendance at school under the NSW Health Orders:

SYMPTOMS OF COVID 19

Staff and students cannot attend school if they are showing any symptoms of COVID-19. These include fever, cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, runny nose, loss of smell/taste, muscle/joint pains, diarrhoea, nausea/vomiting, extreme tiredness, unexplained chest pain or conjunctivitis (eye infection).

 

If symptoms occur at any time, you should not attend school and should undertake a rapid antigen test. If a rapid antigen test is positive your child should isolate as someone who has tested positive to COVID-19. If you cannot access a rapid antigen test, you can attend a PCR (nose and throat swab) testing clinic.

 

Students who test positive for Covid-19 are to self-isolate at home for 7 days from the day and time the positive test was taken and inform the school immediately. The student will be recorded as ísolating under Government Directive and this will not affect their attendance record.

 

 

HOUSEHOLD CLOSE CONTACT

If a household member tests positive to Covid-19, all people within the household must self isolate at home for 7 days from the date and time the positive test result was received. 

School staff are classified as essential workers and able to continue to attend work, providing they are symptom free and continue to return a negative result.

 

Students who are deemed as a household close contact may return to school after the 7 day isolation period, providing they do not have any Covid-19 symptoms and return a negative Covid-19 test on the day of their return to school.

Students in this situation will be recorded as ‘Remote Learning’ and not affect their attendance record.

 

Advice and further resources are available on the NSW Health website including COVID-19 guidelines and fact sheets for People who tested positive or were exposed to COVID-19.  Additional resources are also available on the NSW Government website.

 

The safety and wellbeing of our staff and students are paramount at all times. As such, we will continue to ensure that all necessary health advice is closely followed.