Dear Families,
A short time ago I wrote to you about the rapidly changing COIVD-19 situation that has impacted on all of us.
These past weeks have been different from anything we have experienced before as families and as a school community.
Together with Catholic Education SA, and in partnership with families, we are committed to ensuring educational, spiritual and pastoral support for every child in our school.

I provide this update to you as we work through the significant implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and the changes that will be required to ensure we can continue to support the learning and wellbeing of your child.

Term 1
As you are aware, next week will be a pupil free week for all CESA schools. This time between Monday 6 April and Thursday 9 April will enable teachers and school staff to prepare for the remote delivery of curriculum.  Next week becomes 'holidays' for the children and no home learning is required.

Term 2

From the commencement of Term 2, unless informed otherwise by the Government, Catholic schools will remain open to provide remote curriculum delivery and to support students whose particular circumstances require them to be at school.

We will work with families of students who will require attendance at school during this time. This will include children whose parents are required to be at work.

Learning will be delivered simultaneously in school and at home. All students will access the same mode of learning; those at school will be supervised to access the same curriculum provided for those who will access it remotely.

This mode of learning will continue until we are advised differently by the government.

Dear Families, I write to you again in an effort to keep you fully informed of our efforts and plans regarding the safety of our children and the Coronavirus.
Our staff have been busy working on developing as online learning program, as well as the usual day to day teaching and assisting with inquiries from families who have chosen to keep their children at home at this time.
Interestingly the Prime Minister showed a distinct change in message in regards to children attending school when he stated last night that:
This is the public health advice.

You must stay at home except for the following reasons: A, shopping for what you need, food and other essential supplies that enable you to remain at home and to do that shopping as infrequently as possible. B, for medical care or compassionate needs. C, to exercise in compliance with the public gathering rules that I've already outlined. And D, for work and education if you cannot work or learn remotely.

Here you can find more details regarding for fee remissions as a follow up on last Thursday’s communication that stated the following:

Amongst all the worries that we have at this time – worrying about the payment of school fees should not be one of those things.
Please be assured of our support for your family. If your family has lost significant income due to COVID-19 you will receive a total school fee remission effective immediately, initially for a period of 3 months.
We will continue to review the fee situation for individual families and the school as a whole. Further information will be released early next week. 

If there is one important and simple message that you take from this communication I hope it is this…
At Rosary School the ongoing learning, wellbeing and continued enrolment of all children who are part of our community is paramount, regardless of the ability to pay fees at this difficult time.
As Principal, I want to affirm that this is the mission of our Leadership team, our staff and our school as we work through this period of uncertainty together with all our families. 

At this stage, Term 2 starts Monday April 27th (there is NO Pupil Free Day).
From the commencement of Term 2, unless informed otherwise by the Government, Catholic schools will remain open to provide remote curriculum delivery and to support students whose particular circumstances require them to be at school.

We will work with families of students who will require attendance at school during this time. This will include children whose parents are required to be at work.

Learning will be delivered simultaneously in school and at home. All students will access the same mode of learning: those at school will be supervised to access the same curriculum provided for those who will access it remotely.

This mode of learning will continue until we are adviced differently by the government.

Vacation Care will now be offered from Monday 6 April and continue through until Friday 24 April.

In consultation with Catholic Education SA and in accord with the current advice from Government and Health officials, we have revised the status of our Vacation Care Services for the upcoming school holiday period. Vacation Care will not be offered on public holidays during the period or on Tuesday 14 April due to construction works on campus.

To encourage students to continue reading for independence and success we are pleased to provide all students with access to the Sunshine Online resource.
Sunshine Online is a digital literacy program and will be available on all school ipads and laptops.

The resource offers students access to ebooks and interactive activities to help them learn to read and understand mathematical concepts.

The ebooks include phonics, fiction and nonfiction and gives access to 560 e-books and 1000 activities. The books are divided into three learning levels: emergent, early and fluent and contain levelled texts from Level 1 – Level 30.

click below for more:

Literacy_Resources_for_Online_Learning.pdf