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Catholic Education has adopted more stringent Covid measures for Term 3 to minimise the transmission of Covid and ensure our schools remain open. As reported in the media there is a predicted Covid peak forecast in weeks 4 and 8 of this term which could see triple the number of Covid cases currently being seen in the community. This would significantly affect school operations and the continuity of Teaching and Learning in Schools. To try and minimise the impact on school operations, Catholic Education has taken a risk-averse approach to ensure the maximum number of staff are available in schools. This means the following measures are being undertaken:
- Any event that could take extra staff away from the school in Term 3 should be reconsidered and if possible, postponed. This includes planned excursions and camps. For Term 3 we will not be charging the excursion levy to parents. Where possible and in a Covid safe way, we will continue to host incursions for our students.
- We are still planning on hosting our Athletics Carnival in Week 3 as it is in the local area and completely outdoors, more information will follow shortly.
- Parents will be notified if 25% of a cohort contracts Covid in a 7-day period. It is extremely important you notify the school if your child contracts covid via email stfranciscalwell@cg.catholic.edu.au or by submitting an absence note on Compass. These will be tracked to notify parents if we reach the 25% threshold.
- Current ACT health advice is for close or household contacts to not attend school if practicable. If students do need to attend, they can as long as they are asymptomatic, conduct a RAT test 24 hours before returning to school and then again, every 48 hours while they are a close/household contact.
- If students are symptomatic, they are not to attend school. If students present with unexplained symptoms at school, they will be isolated and parents contacted to pick them up from school.
- Schools are to limit the number of visitors they have onsite. This unfortunately, includes parents attending assemblies. Those who were able to attend an assembly last term will know that this decision is one I am particularly saddened by.
- We can continue our morning and afternoon pick-up and drop-off arrangements; however, we will need to be stricter with the number of people we can accommodate in the hall. This may mean a longer wait time to pick up your children. My advice is to grab a coffee and if possible, come a little later when the flow of parents is greatly diminished. We are staffed to provide supervision until 3:30 pm.
- Any meetings between staff and parents should be conducted remotely wherever possible.
- The school will continue to use all resources available to ensure adequate supervision ratios at school. In the event a significant number of staff are unavailable, there may be a time when we may need to keep cohorts at home, provide minimal supervision or most unlikely close the school under the direction of the Director of Catholic Education. In any of these cases, we will endeavour to provide parents with as much advance warning as possible.
- Unlike Term 1, we will be unable to provide work for students who are required to learn from home this term. To support students who are required to learn from home, the following resource has been put together to use while students are not in attendance at school.
Thank you to our parent helpers at the Athletics Carnival, these days can not proceed without the support of our families. A special thanks to Damien Lindsay for the organisiation of equipment, set up and pack up of the event.
Also – big shout out to the students from both Erindale College and MacKillop College who came along to support our school, the students took initiative, were respectful and helpful. It was wonderful to see such terrific collaboration from our neighbouring high schools.
Ribbons will be distributed at Monday morning assembly at the hard top. Parents may attend under these strict conditions.
- Enter through the BASCA gate at 9am only
- Stand at the back of the hard top near the silver seats
- Not enter any classrooms
- Ensure social distancing with other adults
Thanks,
Lauren Macdonald
You are unable to purchase Library bags on QKR at the moment due to unavailability. When stock is replenished we will advise.
Thank you to those families who have already settled their Term 3 2022 school fee accounts. Term 3 fees are due for payment by Wednesday 24th August 2022 unless paying regular instalments by Bpay or Direct Debit. Please do not pay school fees through Compass.
For any school fee related queries, please contact me at office.stfranciscalwell@cg.catholic.edu.au or give me a call in the office from Monday to Friday on 6292 4500.
Kind regards
Rosie Todd
The non uniform day that was scheduled for tommorow, Friday 12th August 2022 is cancelled.
Students are to wear their school uniform as per normal.
As the St Francis of Assisi Fete for 2022 is not going ahead,the non uniform day that contributes to the Fete is also cancelled.
Reminder:
The Community Council "Movie Night" is on tommorow night, Friday 12th August 2022.
Ticket sales had to be all pre purchased through the QKR app and this closed Wednesday 10th August 2022 at 3.00pm
For all the families who have pre purchased tickets it would be most appreaciatied if you could arrive around the 5pm or shortly thereafter so tickets and food can be sorted out prior to the 6.00pm movie start .
