A message from the Principal
Learning Programs
From next Monday we will be following a normal school timetable and break times for students in Preschool, Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2. Remote learning is available for students who can’t attend school due to health reasons. Please advise the school if your child is staying home.
Remote learning for P-2 students not returning in week 4
Preschool
Our teachers will continue to post learning tasks in Seesaw Classes. For those families returning to school we will begin to use Seesaw Family for learning portfolios once again.
K-2
Our teachers will continue to post core learning through slide presentations in the same google classroom you have been using. These are the same slides that will be used by the children who are attending school. There will be no specialist tasks.
This wil be the same system for our years 3-6 students as they transition back to school. The google meetings and videos will not continue as our teachers will now be face to face teaching.
P-2 families looking for more
There is no obligation to do addtional tasks but for those families looking for more there will home learning packs for P-2 only available here:
https://sites.google.com/ed.act.edu.au/act-home-learning/resources/home-learning-packs
Health and Hygiene
There will be a strong focus on ensuring good health and hygiene practices – like hand washing – when we return. Our school has stocked up on soap, hand sanitiser and paper towels and all students and staff will be regularly reminded to wash their hands with soap and water or use an alcohol-based hand sanitiser. Parents should also encourage their children to wash their hands before they arrive at school.
There will also be a focus on other hygiene measures, including encouraging everyone to cough into elbows or a tissue, placing used tissues in bins, avoiding touching eyes, noses or mouths, no sharing food or drink, not using water fountains or bubblers directly, as well as hygiene measures in the preparation of food products.
Cleaning
Our cleaning services will be extended to deliver dedicated cleaning activities during each school day – particularly on high touch points such as door handles – and an updated cleaning plan will be in place prior to resumption of face to face learning.
If your child is sick
When students return to the classroom, it is important we are vigilant about health and hygiene. This means if your child has any kind of illness, even if it is just a runny nose, they must not come to school. If your child comes to school unwell, you will be asked to collect them. We will be stricter in implementing these rules than you are perhaps used to, but it is for the health and safety of everyone in our school community.
Physical distancing
New physical distancing measures will be in place for adults in our schools. This will be a big change to the way we are used to interacting with our school community.
The ACT Chief Health Officer has advised that schools should limit the gathering of adults on school sites. At our school this will mean adults, including parents and staff, will need to maintain physical distancing between themselves and other adults.
Adults in ACT public schools will need to ensure they keep to the guidelines of maintaining 1.5 metres between themselves and no more than one adult per four square metres in an indoor space (for example in classrooms).
In limiting the number of adults on site, we encourage you to contact us via e-mail or telephone before visiting. If a face-to-face meeting is required, we ask you to book a time so that physical distancing can be planned.
School Canteen
As we transition back to school the canteen will NOT operate a normal service. Orders will ONLY be available through the flexischools app. This is the only way we can provide contact free lunch orders for students. The link to flexischools is on our SZ App home page or can be found on https://www.flexischools.com.au/
Library
Our library will reopen next week. Any materials that have been sent home will go into a quarantine area for 24 hours before rentering circulation.
Reading at Home
Truck loads of books went home last term so our students could continue to read every day. As you return to school can you please return these books so we can quarantine them and rebuild our resource collection.
Contact us
If you need to discuss any of the above with us, please email us on info@ngunnawalps.act.edu.au or call 61421500.
We look forward to seeing your children return to the classroom in the weeks ahead.
Kind regards,