Important COVID-related announcements 2

If your child has any symptoms, as we are all advised, please have a COVID test, recover and be well before returning to school.

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This week some more restrictions have lifted. The leadership team will look at implementing some gradual changes before the end of the year. 

• For now, our bubblers will be back on with water flowing again. We still encourage you to pack a full water bottle. 
• Whilst our whole school assemblies are not allowed, we can have level gatherings. This means we will be able to farewell each other properly for Christmas. Our Virtual Assemblies will remain in place until the end of the year.
• All virtual events already planned will go ahead virtually (Graduation and Christmas Paraliturgy) as we are still limited to the number of parents who can be onsite indoors. 

We feel that so much work has gone into the planning of these events that we need to honour these as planned.

• Excursions and incursions are allowed. With 3 weeks left of school this will have very little impact on planning of any new events.
• With regards to drop off and pick ups, we will inform you next week of our plan to resume to a sort of normal. We feel with Church building still in progress and our carpark being still limited that we need to time to stage a reasonable return to normal drop offs and pick ups before the end of the year. This will help with starting the new year well. 

With all of this in mind, we still need to maintain social distancing and minimise parents gathering at gates and in car parks so some thought needs to go into our own loosening of restrictions.

Thank you for your patience. We will communicate all changes via Dojo and through paper correspondence. 

Please see our Wellbeing roadmap here

COVID-safe Plan

Click here to view the St Anthony's Covid-safe plan

The Safety Management Plan for COVID-19 (COVID Safe Plan) applies to all schools, and

outlines the key OHS risks and links to the latest guidance. It sets out the approach for managing safety risks in schools in accordance with the minimum requirements for COVIDSafe Plans. The plan is reviewed and updated, as required, regularly while

restrictions remain in place. Schools must continue to ensure that the number of staff on site is kept to the minimum level required to meet operational requirements.

COVID Visitor and Volunteer Policy

Please click here to access our new COVID-19 Visitor & Volunteer Policy. 

It is important for everyone in the community to read the policy. Any visitor who has permission to enter the school site must sign the Declaration form.  There are strict restrictions to any visitor to St Anthony's. 

• Visitors to school grounds should be limited to those delivering or supporting essential school services and operations (e.g. student health and wellbeing services, cleaning and
• maintenance workers).
• To support contact tracing, schools must keep a record of all staff, students and visitors who attend on-site for more than 15 minutes. Schools must record the name, contact details, date, and time of attendance at school, as well as the areas of the school that the person attended.
• We use existing mechanisms such as visitor sign-in procedures, student attendance records and staffing rosters to record this information and COVID safe declarations.
• Additional staff, including parent volunteers, must not attend school at this time.
• Parent-teacher information sessions and interviews must continue to be replaced with online and video alternatives. This includes the Prep information session.
• Activities that involve on-site attendance by students from different educational institutions (e.g. interschool sport or interschool debating) must not take place or be replaced, where possible, with virtual alternatives.
• Schools must not conduct on-site school tours for prospective students and their families at this time. Our Virtual tour is available instead.
• Visitors to school grounds must comply with physical distancing and face covering advice set out in this document and ensure good hand hygiene.