Dear Parents / Caregivers

We are looking forward to welcoming back the students on Tuesday 3 May. We trust you and your family had a wonderful Easter break and some great family time over the past two weeks.

This term we begin school in the Orange setting of the Covid Protection Framework (CPF). 

We begin the term with only 15% of our students having experienced COVID and only 12% of staff. Consequently we will continue to take a cautious approach with our COVID procedures in order to minimise the rate of transmission.

Please read through these guidelines that we have developed for our school, based on the Ministry of Education guidelines, and the health and safety needs of our students and staff in the Orange setting. 

The following topics are covered in this Orange setting of the Covid Protection Framework  Procedures information letter:

• Key Changes for Orange
• Attendance
• Masks
• Home Groups & Physical Distancing
• Programme of Learning
• Breaks
• Drop Off
• Pick Up
• Parents On Site
• Health and Safety Measures
• Student Injury / Illness
• Student Wellbeing
• Gatherings
• sKids

Should you have any questions please feel free to contact me at principal@sj.school.nz.

Ka manaakitia e te Atua

Alister Bridgman

Tumuaki

• Students (Years 3-6) and staff will continue to be strongly encouraged to wear masks (MOE).
• Students and staff will be able to move across their teams inside.
• The school’s normal time table will return (8.50am – 2.50pm, whole school morning tea and lunch breaks).
• Parents can enter the property at drop-off and pick up.
• Parents are asked to stay out of the learning spaces.
• To reduce congestion parents are asked to stay off porches in front of the learning areas.
• Students will continue going directly into their learning space on arrival in the morning.
• There will be no school wide gatherings inside.
• Our Orange setting guidelines will be reviewed in week 5 unless there is a change in the CPF colour prior to that week.

• All Students are to return to school Tuesday 3 May.
• Children with complex medical needs will seek advice from their health professional about whether it is appropriate to come to school.
• Anyone who is unwell, self isolating, or who has been advised by health authorities to remain at home while they wait for their COVID-19 test results, must stay home.
• Students showing any respiratory symptoms such as a cold, a head cold, blocked ears, cough, sneezing, runny nose, chills or a fever, should stay home. The Healthline/family GP needs to be contacted for advice, which may include getting tested for COVID-19. The school needs to be informed of the outcome of that conversation.
• Anyone with these respiratory symptoms is asked not to enter the school.
• Use the school website to notify us if your child will be absent.
• Students who are late go directly to their Home Group learning space.
• Parents do not need to sign in students when they are late.

• Masks are strongly encouraged to be worn by students and staff Years 3 – 6 Home Groups.
• Masks will be worn by staff in the Kea and Kiwi team, if it doesn’t interrupt the learning connection with the children.

• Students and teachers will be in their home groups, pods and teams.
• Students stay out of other team’s learning spaces.
• Students continue to be mindful of personal space when inside.

• The Programme of Learning will be delivered in school.
• Students at home in self-isolation will be contacted by their Home Group Teacher as to their programme of learning.

10.25 – Read and Feed

10.35 – 11.00 – Students play anywhere

12.40 – 12.50 – Students eat lunch in Home Groups

12.50 – 1.30 – Students play anywhere

Drop off – 8.15 am to 8.50 am

• Students dropped off after 8am, and before 8.15am, wait by the back of the church, to be accompanied by a staff member across the carpark at 8.15am.
• Students are dropped off in the drop off zone after 8.15am.
• Students catching buses enter the property via the Dominion St school driveway and the entry by the office block.
• Students walking to school go to the back of the church and wait to be accompanied by a staff member across the carpark.
• Students will walk directly to their Home Group when dropped off in the morning.
• The school grounds/playgrounds are not accessible before or after school.

Pick up – 2.50 pm to 3.15 pm

• Please have your child’s name & Home Group number clearly displayed when you are collecting them in the pick up zone.
• Parents who normally collect their children at the Lake House Café will be able to continue to do so.
• Rosmini and Taharoto Rd Bus students will be accompanied by the duty teacher to the bus at 2.50 pm from the courts.
• Parents of St Joseph’s and Rosmini students are to park in the top Parish car park once they have collected their St Joseph’s students and wait in their cars for their Rosmini student with their St Joseph’s student.
• The school grounds/playgrounds are not accessible before or after school.
• Parents picking up students from Rosmini and St Joseph’s please do so after 3 pm.
• Rosmini students being collected by parents access the car park via the Dominion Street entrance.

• Parents must wear masks when on site.
• Parents can enter the school site 8.15 am – 8.50 am and 2.40 pm – 3.00 pm.
• Parents cannot enter learning spaces or go onto wooden / concrete porches.
• Parents stay on asphalt areas.
• Any parents/visitors arriving at school between 8.50 am and 2.40 pm will need to sign in at the office.
• Parent / Teacher meetings – if a parent wishes to meet a teacher, this can be done either by Zoom or on site, outside at one of the picnic tables, after students have left the school site.

• Hand sanitiser is at the entry to learning spaces; and soap, water & drying facilities in bathrooms. 
• Doors will be latched/wedged open, and windows opened, providing cross ventilation
• All used work surfaces, door handles and toilets will be disinfected and cleaned regularly.
• In an emergency, normal evacuation procedures will be followed.

• Students are to stay home if there is any sign of illness and parents use the school website (or @School App) to notify us if your child will be absent (this is preferable to phoning, as reporting via the website/app allows both your child’s teacher & Julie Kelly in the Office to be aware of the absence).
• Parents will be contacted and will need to arrange to have their child collected if their child becomes unwell through the school day.
• Parents will be asked to park in the pick up zone, not get out of the car, and the child will be guided by a staff member to their parent’s car.
• Parents are to contact Healthline/family GP that day and to email principal@school.co.nz as to what advice they were given in regard to their child’s illness.

• Student wellbeing will be monitored throughout the day by the teachers.
• If teachers have any concerns they will contact parents.

• There will be no school prayers.
• There will be no choir, kapa haka, cultural group etc.
• There will be no sports practices in the hall.
• Out-of-school sport activities will be determined by individual out of school sport organisations.

• sKids will be able to take registrations from students outside of our school community.

We appreciate that this is an extensive range of measures. They are designed to ensure that both students and staff are safe, and are based on information we have received to date from the Ministry of Education.

Take care. Stay safe.

Ka manaakitia koutou e te Atua

Alister Bridgman

Principal