Congratulations
Congratulations to The Little Lowes (Bella Little,Yr 6, and Jorja Lowe, Yr 5,) and to past student Evie Dalton on their performances in the Level Up Online Busking Festival last Friday evening.
Remote Learning
Thank you for your patience and perseverance as you reacquaint yourselves to remote learning. Again, there have been frustrations but hopefully we have been able to resolve most issues.
Access to learning programs will be available through the school’s Home Learning Portal. A button for the Home Learning Portal has been placed on the homepage of our school website. You will need to be logged into your child’s Google account to access materials. Class teachers will provide this information.
Any video conferences between teachers, learning support officers and students cannot be 1:1, that is, if there is only one student involved, there will need to be another adult present.
Teachers may not always be available for immediate response to messages, for example, they may be rostered to supervise at school. Another teacher from that team may respond. Please remember our Communication Guidelines for Parents (available on the school website) and only contact teachers between 8.00am and 5.00pm.
As in Term 2, we are required to mark the attendance roll each day for all students, whether they are learning from home or being supervised at school. All students will be marked present each day but, if your child is not going to be engaged in the remote learning program on any day, could you please contact the school so we can mark them as being absent.
If there are resources to collect, teachers will inform you and these can be collected from the hall.
Onsite Supervision
Please remember that we can only offer supervision to children whose parents cannot provide this at home due to work requirements or exceptional cases. If your child needs to be supervised at school, please register them by calling the school office, giving at least 2 days notice so that adequate supervision can be arranged. Children attending school are doing the same work as they would be doing at home under the supervision of school staff (teachers and/or Learning Support Officers). If we are required to roster on more staff, it means those teachers are not available for contact with their students on those days. As part of Stage 3 restrictions, staff who can work from home MUST work from home, so we are trying to limit the number of staff we call in. I thank you for your consideration of this matter.
Temperature Checks
We have been advised by the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria and Catholic Education Ballarat that we are to check temperatures of students attending for onsite supervision. This will be done as students arrive and enter through the front door. Students who record a reading equal to above 37.5℃ will be given a second check after 15 minutes. Should they record a temperature of 37.5℃ or above a second time, parents will be contacted and asked to collect their child from school.
Child Safety
I remind parents and carers that, with the increased use of online platforms during this period of remote learning, it is important that we monitor our children’s engagement with technology. As part of meeting the Child Safe Standards, I again direct parents to the eSafety Commissioner’s website where there is advice for parents on how to navigate this ever-changing environment.
Student / Parent Support
Our Family School Support Worker, Melissa Lesu, has taken leave. Centacare, Melissa’s employer, has provided us with access to another worker in an effort to provide support to students and parents who may need wellbeing support during this period of remote learning. This support will be via video conference or phone call. Please contact me if you feel you need to access this service.
Kind regards,
Peter Sanderson
Principal
