Lockdown and schools

Dear parents and carers

Today the Acting Premier has announced new circuit breaker restrictions for Victoria to swiftly address the recent COVID-19 outbreak.

The restrictions will be in place from 11.59pm tonight for a seven-day period.

Following advice from the Victorian Chief Health Officer, all Victorian schools will move to a period of remote and flexible learning from Monday 31 May to Thursday 3 June inclusive.

Tomorrow (Friday 28 May) will be a student-free day to allow schools time to prepare. Remote and flexible learning will begin on Monday 31 May.

Please see COMPASS and Class Dojo for previously published details.

As with other remote learning periods, our school will provide on-site supervision for students in the following categories:

Children where both parents and/or carers are authorised workers who cannot work from home, work for an essential provider and where no other supervision arrangements can be made:
- Where there are two parents/carers, both must be authorised workers, working outside the home in order for their children to be eligible for on-site provision
- For single parents/ carers, the authorised worker must be working outside the home in order for their children to be eligible for on-site provision.

Children experiencing vulnerability, including:
- children in out-of-home care
- children deemed vulnerable by a government agency, funded family or family violence service, and is assessed as requiring education and care outside the family home
- children identified by a school or early childhood service as vulnerable, including via referral from a government agency, or funded family or family violence service, homeless or youth justice service or mental health or other health service.

If your child requires on-site supervision, please contact the school on 9499 1880.

The same arrangements apply to our Outside School Hours Care service.

Information is available to support your child’s learning from home.

COVID-19 vaccination –

Easy Read resources and extended testing Covid-19 Clinic hours

Please always refer to credible sources for your Covid-19 information. Here is a list of easy read information for you to refer to and/or pass on as part of the ongoing conversation we are having out there in the community. Banyule Community Health Drive-thru Covid-19 testing Clinics is experiencing longer waiting times than usual at the moment. To help speed up the process we are encouraging community members to pre-register using the COVID-19 Testing registration Form https://testtracker.covid19.dhhs.vic.gov.au/citizen-prefill

The clinic has extended hours of 8am to 6pm. For information on other testing clinics, please visit https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/where-get-tested-covid-19 for updates.