To Summarise the Return to school

Indoor events will remain subject to the obligations such as caps and density quotients. All eligible adults must be fully vaccinated. 

Week 1 (Beginning) Oct 4 - Remote Learning - Essential Workers etc Children at School

Week 2 Oct 11 - Remote Learning - Essential Workers etc Children at School

Week 3 Oct 18 

• Preps - Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday
• Grades 1/2 Thursday/Friday
• Grade 5/6 Friday

Remote learning continues for all other students when not at school. Essential worker's etc Children at school

Week 4 Oct 25  

• Preps - Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday
• Grades 1/2 -Thursday/Friday
• Grades 3 and 4 -Tuesday/Wednesday
• Grades 5 and 6 -Thursday/Friday

Remote learning continues for all other students when not at school. Essential worker's etc Children at school

Week 5 Nov 1

Monday Nov 1 - School Closure Day 

Tuesday Nov 2 Melbourne Cup. Public Holiday No School

From Wednesday Nov 3- All students return to school full time.

*Year level teachers will email parents and post updates on the google classroom each week about the online learning timetable.

*Any whole school information will be communicated through Schoolzine.

Week 4 

All year levels will return to school part time. Teachers will communicate how this week will look for each year level. There will be whole class meetings at 9am and 11:40am but no teacher groups this week. Teachers may complete follow up assessments.

Week 5 All students return to school.

Mask Wearing

Directs students in Year 3 to Year 6 to wear face masks when indoors on school
premises, unless an exception applies.
• Recommends that all other children wear face masks when at school, attending an
OSHC program, or when travelling to and from school on public transport, taxis or
ride share vehicles.

Visitors to Schools/ Volunteers

The use of Service Victoria QR codes for electronic record keeping is now mandatory in all schools to enable the effective contact tracing of any COVID-19 cases.

All visitors on school site (including contractors, diocesan education office staff and building and maintenance staff) Need to Check in using a QR Code

All parents who enter school buildings when on school site Need to Check in using a QR Code

Parents who come onto school grounds for drop off or pick up, but do not enter buildings. Do not need to check in?

Schools can permit parents to enter buildings onsite for student pick-up and drop-off providing sufficient QR code locations are available for parents to check in. Where this is not possible, parents should not be permitted to enter buildings for pick-up and drop-off.

Vaccination for Volunteers: We have had a few questions on this. We are waiting on direction on this from MACS, so no announcement on this one yet.

Private Music Lessons: Singing, brass, woodwind classes and groups in metropolitan Melbourne and other Restricted Areas must be postponed or occur remotely during this time. ( From this announcement, it would appear that we can have guitar, keyboard, violin etc as they are not listed.)

Practise good hygiene
All staff, students and visitors to schools should undertake regular hand hygiene, particularly on arrival to school, before and after eating, after blowing their nose, coughing, sneezing or using the toilet. Staff should direct or supervise young students where required.
Hand sanitiser should be made available at entry points to classrooms. Age-appropriate education and reminders about hand hygiene should be provided. If soap and water are not readily available, hand sanitiser that contains at least 60 per cent alcohol should be made accessible.

Sharing of food is not permitted.

Use non-contact greetings (not shaking hands, hugging or kissing).

Stay home when unwell and get tested
The most important action school communities can take to reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19, is to ensure that any unwell staff and students remain at home and get tested, even with the mildest of symptoms. Everyone should consider their health before they start work or attend school and ensure that they are free from coronavirus symptoms and have not had contact in the past 14 days with a person confirmed to have coronavirus or a person suspected to have coronavirus.