Dear Parents,

Normally in the last newsletter of the term I wish everyone a happy Easter or holiday break and safe travels. This term my simple wish is for everyone to stay healthy.

I also thank the staff for their tremendous efforts of the last three weeks. A massive job! Thank you parents for your support and adaptability. I am sure the experience of educating your children at home has had mixed blessings.

Term 2

Today I had a video conference with Catholic Education. Term two will continue with current arrangements subject to further government decisions or directions. That means that parents who are classified as essential workers can continue to send their children to school. Vulnerable children are also encouraged to come to school.

While at school the students will engage in remote learning in line with the rest of the students in the school. We will have the appropriate staffing levels to ensure student safety and supervision. This means that not every student who comes to school will be supervised by, or working with, their normal classroom teacher.

It is the intention of Catholic Education to establish how many students will return to each school at the beginning of Term Two to assist with future planning. Parents can expect correspondence from Catholic Education at some time next week.

As parents are aware staff are undertaking training next week which will give us a good understanding of how the new platform works with See-Saw and Google Classroom. The intention is to send information on how the new system will work for each year level to parents next Thursday.

PM Readers

The introduction of PM Readers online has been delayed.  Unfortunately, the PM Reader platform itself is not coping with the number of students from many schools trying to access the readers. Mrs Williams is in daily contact with Cengage, who supply the platform, and they have assured us that the readers will be able to be accessed in a week or so.

Collection of Student Books

We still have a lot of families that have not collected their child’s resources from school. Families need to come in and collect these items at the start of next week while we have office staff in attendance.

God Bless

Peter Hughes