COVID Update

COVID Updates in line with advice from the Department and SA Health

Since returning from holidays we have had a number of COVID cases at school. The health, safety and emotional wellbeing of children, staff and community members, is always our number one priority.

If there is a COVID positive case in your child’s class you will receive an email with details and it is important to monitor your child for symptoms and test if appropriate.

If your child displays any COVID or cold and flu symptoms it is important to keep them home and test if appropriate. In line with Department directives we will ask for children to be collected if they display any COVID or cold/flu like symptoms. Thank you for your support in keeping our community safe.

Close contacts from home

If you or a member of your family tests positive for COVID but your child is symptom free they are allowed to attend school. However, it is extremely important that you follow SA Health advice and complete the RAT testing for 5 out of 7 days and keep your child home and get them tested if they develop any symptoms.   Advice from SA Health in this link - SA Health.

From Monday 30 May, face masks will be:

• Strongly recommended (but not required) for all adults - including visitors and parents - while indoors, except when teaching or interacting with children
• Strongly recommended (but not required) for students in years 3 to 12 while indoors.

Students and staff will be encouraged and supported to continue wearing a face mask if they choose to.

Face masks for close contacts

If your child is a close contact and aged 12 years or older, they must wear a face mask when they are outside of the home for 7 days following exposure as per the SA Health close contact guidelines.

Face masks are strongly recommended (but not required) for classroom contacts.

Face mask use in outbreaks

The Department for Education and SA Health have advised that face masks will be required to be worn in education settings where COVID-19 transmission reaches certain thresholds, based on SA Health advice.

In these instances, face masks will be required to be worn indoors all staff and visitors in the school for a 14-day period.

You will be advised of the dates that face masks will be required if we reach these outbreak thresholds at our school.

Exemptions will be made for students or staff who have a medical condition, such as problems with their breathing, a serious skin condition on the face, a disability, or a mental health condition.

Thank you to all parents and students for your cooperation and assistance in implementing the face mask measures at our school.