Please find attached the latest update from The Department related to what the COVID-19 virus means to schools. It is expected that if staff or students show signs of a cold (fever, runny nose, coughing, sneezing etc) then they will be sent home to recover. We appreciate your cooperation in regards to this unprecedented event and together we will get through it.
Please note that the Sports Day will go ahead as planned.
Kind regards,
Steve Freeman
Principal
March 13, 2020 at 12:46 pm
Hi Steve,
Will this be a 48hr isolation from school and or a mandatory doctors attendance with a letter stating illness so that return to school is not a 2 week event if the symptoms are not deemed to be COVID-19
Thanks in advance jason
March 13, 2020 at 1:08 pm
Hi Jason,
If a case is identified in relation to our school, SA Health would take charge and they determine what time frame it needs to be and what conditions are put into place. They also put into place the conditions for return to school. We have currently been instructed that all respiratory conditions need to be fully “resolved” in order to be at school, even if they are not related to the coronavirus. A doctors certificate doesn’t over ride this direction from the Department. If a child arrives at school with ‘cold like symptoms’, then they will be sent home till they recover. This is an unprecedented event so we will operate on the advice given, without the luxury of experience. Kind regards, Steve
March 13, 2020 at 5:59 pm
Steve,
Thank you for your prompt responce.
I did not want my children to be under the impression that they ould fake symptoms and as a result could just take 2 weeks off school.
We as family will be vigilant in not sending our children to school if showing any signs of illness.
In saying that I trust any direction you and or the governing department give in regards to this current situation.
Kind Regards
Jason