Newsletters No. 5, 2020

(29/08/2020)

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Dear students, parents and teachers,
Our school received a letter from NSW department of Education, to inform state wide community schools to pause face to face classes and turn to online classes from 31 Aug. 2020 to the end of term 3 until further notice to be served. This notice makes us very upset because we just re-started face to face classes in 6 weeks but have to stop again, it makes our students, parents and teachers inconvenient, we are so sorry but we have to obey DET’s instruction and believe it is for public benefit. We attach the DET’s letter as the following.

We authorize our teachers to count how many students can join online class, and then inform you class arrangement. We hope parents’ support. The students who are not able to join online class, their credit will be kept for future class. Your understanding is greatly appreciated.

Wish you healthy and happy.

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Nina Conomos
Friday 2020/8/28 8:55

Dear community languages schools and host schools

A message from Lynne Irvine, Executive Director, School Operations and Strategic Partnerships:

The Department of Education has been, and continues to be, in regular contact with NSW Health to seek advice about the ongoing support for schools to ensure that they remain safe for students and staff. The Department updates its advice to schools regularly with regard to any restrictions that need to be placed on the day-to-day activities in schools based on the information provided by NSW Health.

In response to the latest advice from NSW Health, the Community Languages Schools Program will need to implement new measures to minimise the risk of COVID-19 transmission for students and staff across all host sites. Advice from NSW Health is that students are not to travel outside of their local community area and we are not to mix students from many schools and local areas onto public schools sites.
We thank you for the work you do for the students in our Community Languages Schools and appreciate that this is a very difficult time for us all.

These measures will be in effect from Monday 31 August 2020 for the remainder of Term 3.
• All Community Languages classes must be delivered online until the end of Term 3
• Community Language classes are not to be run in host schools
• Support will be provided by the Community Languages Schools Program and the Program Education Officers.
• It is expected that the Community Use Agreements held with public schools will be re-activated when these current restrictions are lifted.
These safety measures are designed to keep everyone well and to minimise the spread of COVID-19 across communities.

Thank you for your understanding and for your ongoing support of the Community Languages Schools Program.

Kind regards, Nina and Merryl
Nina Conomos and Merryl Wahlin
Community Languages Schools Program Coordinator
School Operations and Strategic Partnerships

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
   
 

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