Carmel McGrath 

Learning from Home

Thank you to all our staff for working across the weekend as we began preparation for this extended lockdown period.  Thank you to all parents for your patience and positive feedback on how staff have worked so quickly to send home learning materials and communications via Dojo, Seesaw and email / Schoolzine. 

Due to the extension of the lockdown until 4pm Sunday 8 August 2021, the following arrangements will remain in place:

• Students of essential workers or vulnerable students can continue to attend school for supervised learning.
• Students of non-essential workers will continue to have access to remote learning. 

Your child’s teacher will continue to be your main point of contact during this time. In order to keep our staff safe, we will operate with a minimal staff at school as of today Wed 4th August.  Your teacher will predominantly be working from home but communicating in the usual manner via Dojo and Seesaw.  If you have any specific concerns, please contact Head Of Department (Curriculum) Melinda Norman mnorm36@eq.edu.au to discuss this further.

In addition to materials provided by your child’s teacher, students are also able to access a range of educational resources on the department’s learning@home website.

Students at school and home will be completing the same curriculum. Those at school will be supervised by relief staff on a rotation basis rather than their usual class teacher. 

Excursions and Incursions – All sports and extra-curricular activities are cancelled at this stage.

Evacuation drill – we have postponed this week’s drill and will reschedule following the lockdown. 

Staff Update

During the first 2 days this week, staff have been preparing curriculum materials / videos/ lessons for online learning, undertaking training in Seesaw, posting Dojo communications, and establishing staff management procedures. The class teachers remain your first point of contact and if your teacher is ill or absent, the ongoing curriculum will be supplied by another teacher in the same year level.

We will have a staff member in the office and an administrator daily if you have any general enquiries. Otherwise we will be working from home.

I stress that for the safety of all our community that all adults continue to wear masks at all times and parents not to enter the school unless absolutely necessary, such as collecting a sick child.  

Reminders

As per the P&C news below, a reminder to all families that the Tuckshop is closed this week due to the lockdown.

Parents and Carers please make sure you have the Qld Check In App downloaded.