Helpful Information

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Student Absences

Parents/Guardians are required to inform the College if your child/children are absent from school by 9.00am via PAM or by phoning the school on 5382 3545. 

 

 

 

 

 

Student Achievements

We love to hear and celebrate our student's achievements and to share their success with our College Community. Please email details and/or photos to info@stbc.vic.edu.au 

 

 

 

 

COVID Protocols

COVID Checklist video   A step-by-step checklist for if you or a family member tests postive.

 

Rapid Antigen Testing (RAT)

As we currently have cases of Coronavirus and close contacts in our school community, it is recommended that children are RAT tested according to the guidelines recommended by the Education Departments and Catholic Education Victoria.

 

What to do if you have a case of COVID in your family or you or a family member is a close contact:

ScenarioRequired Actions

 

A student or staff member tests positive to COVID-19, either through RA test or PCR test

 

Isolate at home or in private accommodation for 7 days (inclusive of weekends) and do not attend school during this period. 

 

Inform the school, that they have tested positive for COVID-19. 

 

A negative test is not required to return to school following the completion of 7 days of isolation. 

 

Follow the Checklist for COVID cases.

 

If a student or staff member tests positive through RA test, but don't have symptoms or have not been in contact with anyone who has COVID-19 it is recommended getting a PCR test within 48 hours and stay isolated at all times until they receive their result.

 

If the PCR test is negative, the student or staff member can return to work.

 

A student or staff member is a household contact or house like contact*.

 

You have spent more than four hours with someone who has COVID-19 inside a house, accommodation, or care facility.

 

 

Contact at school is not included in this definition unless contact has occurred in a school-based residential setting, e.g. school camp or boarding school.

 

Notify the school that they are a household or household-like contact.

 

Follow the Checklist for COVID contacts.

 

Students must quarantine for 7 days (inclusive of weekends)and must not attend school during this period.

 

Staff members must quarantine for 7 days (inclusive of weekends) and must not attend school during this period unless a critical work exemption has been agreed.

 

 

A student or staff member has been in contact with a case of COVID-19, including at school or at work.

 

 

If asymptomatic, students and attend school staff should continue to attend school and monitor for symptoms.

 

If symptomatic, all students/staff must stay/return home, take a rapid antigen test, or get a PCR test if a rapid antigen testing kit is unavailable.

 

On receipt of a negative test result, and if well enough, the student/staff member can return to school. 

 

If staff/students are too unwell to attend school, usual leave/absence policies apply. 

 

Follow the Checklist for COVID contacts.

 

 

Staff/student has contracted COVID-19, completed their 7-day isolation period and is asymptomatic.

 

Staff/ students can safely return to school. They do not need to be tested for 8 weeks.

 

Staff member/student has completed their quarantine period as a household contact and has returned a negative test result.

 

However, during the quarantine period an additional member of the household has returned a positive result.

 

 

Student/staff household contacts should quarantine for7 days from the date of the first positive test of the household index case.

 

Household contacts are not subject to rolling quarantine periods. If the index case remains in the household, or if subsequent cases are identified within the household, the quarantine end date for the close contact is unchanged.

 

Staff/ students can safely return to school and do not require negative test documentation. 

 

Please note, if the staff or student becomes symptomatic, they should get tested and not attend school.