The impact of the COVID19 restrictions is having a massive influence on the economy and job security. Any school family who is experiencing financial hardship and needs assistance with school fees obligations is encouraged to contact me via

email principal@saclaytonsth.catholic.edu.au to discuss how we can help at this time.

Dear Families,

Thank you to everyone as we near the end of our second week of Remote Learning 2.0. Your support in these challenging times is truly appreciated. It has been terrific to hear of our level of student engagement and student ‘attendance’ throughout remote learning and the positive online communications with staff. Whilst we’d all prefer to be onsite in our ‘normal’ routine of schooling the children are to be commended, aided through the support of parents/carers, for their online connection to staff, and for Years 3 to 6, their uploading of daily work samples.

We also thank our parent community for supporting the safety and wellbeing of our students, staff and parents. Doing what is right in terms of restrictions, social distancing and the wearing of masks is the responsibility of all. We thank parents for the communication that has taken place in regards to onsite remote learning and student attendance. We have appreciated those parents who have kept children away from school when unwell.

We have about 44 to 60 students across the week who are required to undertake their remote learning onsite. If your work situation changes and you are at home, your child must work from home. Please let us know if your circumstances change. Our staff are rostered to work onsite throughout the Remote Learning period both supervising students along with meeting in level teams to plan the forthcoming weeks curriculum. Staff when not onsite are working from home.

Parents please be aware that the majority of our communication to parents in this current period will be posted through the Skoolbag App and through the parent emails as listed on the school’s administration system. Please keep an eye out on these 2 forms of communication.

Thursday 30th July (2.00pm-4.45pm) and Friday 31st July (11.30am-3.15pm)

Thank you to all parents who have registered to attend our online Parent/Child/Teacher Interviews to be held this afternoon and tomorrow morning. Our new online approach using ‘Whereby’ will hopefully prove to be a great way for our staff to connect with families whilst COVID-19 restrictions are in place. The interviews are a valuable opportunity for teachers and parents to share information on each child’s academic and social/emotional development across the first half of the year and in the early stages of our second remote learning phase. We look forward to welcoming all of our families to the interviews this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon.

We will hold another Parent/Child/Teacher Interview process at the commencement of Term 4. Whilst we schedule a number of formal interviews across the school year, please feel free to contact your child’s teacher at a mutually convenient time, should you have any issues or concerns. It is also important for teachers to receive any feedback – it helps create a wonderful sense of satisfaction in an ever increasingly difficult job and can better inform teachers of strategies and approaches to learning that work for your child.

Our next formal reporting process will take place at the end of the school year, where children will receive their Semester 2 Report.

Interviews bookings can be made through www.schoolinterviews.com.au

The Code is: mfj24

Please refer to parent emails and Skoolbag App for full details.

Teacher Online Access - Thursday 30th and Friday 31st July.

As a result of teachers participating in Interviews on both Thursday 30th and Friday 31st July teachers will not be available to be online with students for the time frames where interviews are taking place.

If you experience any challenges in accessing the School Interviews site or the online interview link please make contact with your child's class teacher.

Learning Pack Collection Day - Tomorrow 8am - 11am

The next pack collection will take place tomorrow between 8am - 11am. We will again return to the glasshouse for pack collection, as there will be classes operating in classrooms and staff will be preparing for interviews. We ask that all families except for Foundation parents remain outside on the basketball court area, whilst students enter the glasshouse for their pack collection and exit through the office doors as per previous practice.

Learning pack collections will include resources for Weeks 4 and 5 of remote learning:

* F-4 curriculum resources, guided reading, take home readers and specialist resources,

* Years 5/6 specialist resources.

The library will be open for F-6 students to return and borrow library books.

Physical Education resources will be able to be returned and borrowed.

We ask that F-4 families return all take home readers and guided reading texts in the allocated boxes provided in the glasshouse.

Protocols for Children attending onsite Remote Learning - Temperature Testing

A reminder for all families attending onsite Remote Learning, we now have our regular process in place where children will gather in the Glasshouse at 8.45am for ‘Temperature Testing’. Should your child be late for school we ask that they go to the front office to have their temperature tested prior to heading to classrooms. The Department of Training has supplied all schools with infrared thermometers in order to conduct these tests. The following guide is being provided for schools and is provided here for your information.

Whilst this is a mandated process for us to undertake it’s actually a nice way to get to say good morning to each child who is onsite!

Student Absences

The attendance roll is marked daily.

St Andrew’s is required to keep detailed records of student attendance in remote learning. If your child is sick or family commitments mean they cannot attend learning on any day you need to notify the school as usual.

All absences must be reported to the office through one of 2 ways only:

email to office@saclaytonsth.catholic.edu.au

phone 95515094 and leave a message on the prompt.

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