The P&C Executive invite you to join them at Firth Park Gazebo near the Netball Courts for an open air meeting. Please bring a chair, a coffee and your energy to our creative June meeting. We will be creative connecting together during this guideline period through our department and P&C Qld.

If it is wet we will contact you via global text of alternate site.

Regards

Mel Colenso and Colleen Hope

Department Maintains Status Quo: The most important ways to help stop the spread of COVID-19 in the school environment are the same as in the broader community:

• Clean your hands regularly with soap and water as approved preferably or alcohol-based sanitiser.
• Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue or bent elbow when coughing or sneezing.
• Avoid touching your face, nose and mouth, and avoid shaking hands.
• Stay home if you are sick. This is the most important thing you can do. If you have any respiratory symptoms, please get tested for COVID-19.
• All adults practice social distancing,  staying 1.5 metres away from others as much as you can.

Focus at School:

• We will improve fresh air circulation in classrooms and avoid air-conditioning.
• All excursions, assemblies, sporting activities and external visitors including therapists and after school support with CPL are cancelled till further notice as per departmental guidelines.
• We ask parents dropping and picking up students to wait outside the front gate and the ‘guide’ staff member/s at the gate will assist with handover of your young person. Drop off at front gate and pick up at side gate. Please monitor your youn person with car movements. This is to minimise the adult contact as per guidelines.
• If your young person is unsettled and you need to access the school please notify the ‘guide’ staff member/s or go to the front desk between 9 and 2-30 pm and use the hand sanitizer mobile stations, one at the front gate area near the Core word board and one outside the front office. Please do not go to your child's classroom. The front office staff will support your young person to the office.
• Students coming via taxi will enter and depart as per parent drop off and pick up.
• Approved Bus students will be supported as usual by teaching staff and we have modified the bus area replicating a road and move on the left hand side to ensure adult supervision of students and social distancing of adults.
• Staff have access to Protective Personal Equipment to support interactions when in close proximity to young people and their colleagues eg for supporting personal hygiene, mealtime management. As students requiring additional specialised health support needs return to school we will work together to create support plans. We are timetabling the use of B Block bathroom as our primary support room due to its size and we have ensured appropriate Disposal units for PPE.
• We have created sanitizer kits in addition to soap access in the classroom and bathrooms for each class to support facility hygiene. Our preference as per guidelines is for soap and water. Please find attached in the newsletter a santiser sign off and accompanying Safety Data Sheets for your information.
• Additional cleaning hours for touch point areas during the day remains in place until further notice.
• Staggered departure on buses or car/ taxi pick up of Juniors and Middle 1 - 5 at 2.30 pm, the Middle 6 - 10 and Junior Secondary at 2.35 pm and Seniors at 2.40 pm.
• Limiting parent and outside personal meeting on school grounds until advised.

We thank you for supporting us with the current health guidelines.

During week 8 our students will look at this explicit teaching focus in a number of ways.  Through explicit and incidental teaching when students are moving about the school they will be encouraged to ask permission to leave class and communicate where they will be going and perhaps adhere to a timeline to return to class.  The teaching of these skills help facilitate independence and a good work ethic between the student and classroom teacher.  When students are on work skill development placement setting in Seniors these behaviours will double as respectful communication with superiors.

You can assist your young person to acquire or grow these skills by encouraging behaviours that seek permission for objects and activities. When out in the community you can encourage short bursts of independence and return to caregiver skills, when grocery shopping by asking your young person to obtain a certain item and pop it in the trolley.

• Student attendance 8.30 am till 2.45 pm.
• Phone the office and request the classroom. Please always be mindful of students' learning and teachers teaching times.
• If you are late to start the school day please attend the School Office and staff will assist with contacting your class.
• Utilise the students' Communication Diary
• Request face to face meetings through your class teacher.

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