Lighting upgrade for the Hall – thank you to the NFSS P&C for their wonderful contribution to this exciting project- these works will be completed this week by Behind the Scenes.

Evacuation and lockdown drill for Term 2- by Year level groups

Our mandatory emergency drills for Term 2 will be conducted differently in light of the current pandemic and planned return to school of the majority students.

The Building Fire Safety Regulation 2008 requires fire and evacuations drills to be undertaken and this requirement is still in place during the current COVID-19 pandemic with a sensible approach ensuring controls are in place to maintain safety. 

As part of each school’s Emergency Response Plan, alternative assembly points should be considered. We will still use the oval at this stage.  Cones will be placed at several point on the oval to maintain distance between groups. Sanitiser will be available in the first aid kit.

Schools can complete their required drill using staggered options e.g. each individual classroom staggered over a week or by year level.

Ensuring adults maintain physical distancing requirements.

Communications to parents from the school via the newsletter will help alleviate any concerns and provide peace of mind that the fire and evacuations drills are routine and required each year, have been scaled to smaller groups of students to ensure that DoE is complying with the mass gathering restrictions and the students safety is the department’s key focus with an all hazard approach.

We will complete the drills for the remainder of the school when they return to classes.

Lockdown Drill – week 7 of Term. All year levels

Cleaning and Sanitising of classroom- daily. Our cleaning staff will continue with the daily precautionary cleaning regime for all areas. Grounds staff will continue to sanitise handrails, bubblers and playgrounds during the day.

Covid 19 poster for families 

Building Project- Pool Change rooms upgrade. J&D Contracting will be onsite for the remainder of this term.  Honeywill Consulting will be managing this process. We may have to move the Year 1 classes from B block due to the demolition noise. The project manager anticipates this will be from the 18 May for 7 to 14 days. The two Year one classes in B block will be relocated to Music and Art rooms for period of the demolition. Mr Chapman our classroom music teacher and Ms Lee our Junior Lote teacher will visit individual classes for their lessons. Mr McIntyre will be working from B block staff meeting room on the day of instrumental music takes place.

Pool entrance gates – to be heightened. Delayed due to Pool upgrade project. Mr Rainbow requested the pool entrance gates be heighten to allow more control over entering the area. The entry latch will be heightened as well. Works will commence after the change room project is completed.

Social Distancing measures for the reception area, photocopier room and staffroom. You will see the reception area looking a little different. We will have sneeze guards installed at the front desk and floor markings will be present. We will have 3 rooms in B block open for staff at lunch times. Hand sanitiser and washing facilities are available in each room.

School Watch

The School Watch Program is a partnership between Education Queensland, the Queensland Police Service and the State Government Protective Security Service.  It aims to reduce criminal activity in Queensland schools and encourages everyone to look out for after-hours crime in our schools.  If you see anything suspicious, please don’t attempt to intervene.

Call the School Watch number – 13 17 88