Dear Families

Welcome to a very different looking term 2!
The attendance rate at school started at 63% of students, growing to 74%.
Our teachers are showing great flexibility in their remote learning and are working around difficulties with internet crashes daily.
But in short, learning continues and will continue, it is just going to be different for a while.

THE START OF THE SCHOOL DAY

If you are keeping your child/ren at home, please follow the advice that will be provided in the REMOTE LEARNING COMMUNICATION.

If you are bringing your child/ren to school…

• Only students are to enter the school grounds.
• All children are to be dropped off at the school gates.
• Please stay in your car if you are driving and observe social distancing if you are walking children to and from school.
• As usual, staff will be ready at the gates to greet students and to direct them to their morning play space
• Morning play will be supervised by our staff who will be stationed in each play area
• R-2 students will play on the classroom side of the school.
• 3-6 students will play on the Jubilee playground and in the gym space (on arrival they may move to these spaces with their bags).
• Formal learning will begin at 9am when children will be collected by their teacher
• You are welcome this week to bring children to school from the usual 8:25am (when the gates will be open) but feel free to arrive up until 9am.

Here is our reference guide for Remote Learning.

At Rosary School we work in partnership to educate young people, to take their place effectively, in the Church and the world.

For a short time period the way we will be educating our students is going to look a little different as we move to remote learning.

Last term we communicated with families three times about remote learning.

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.

As per last term's alert, the uniform shop remains closed until further notice.

When winter orders arrive, you will be notified via SchoolStream.
All uniform information and any further orders may be completed accessing the website.

Celebrating the Easter Season!

Today we celebrated the Easter Season with a virtual Liturgy.
Our year 5 and 6 leaders led the liturgy we we explored the symbols of Easter my creating a sacred prayer space in our classrooms.

The symbols of Easter are also the symbols for the entire liturgical life of the Church.

In all sacraments, particularly Baptism, simple elements from life are brought forward and made sacred.
Light, water, clothing, oil, and in a unique way, bread and wine are transformed from ordinary objects into the gift of God’s grace and presence with us, and we too are transformed into images of Christ. Let us pray with these symbols of God’s life with us.

We watched a play presented by the students called ‘The Road to Emmaus’ from Luke’s Gospel which reminded us that sometimes it is in fact our ‘heart that sees’ and it is this faith that leads us through times of crisis as it did in Jesus’ time, as it does during this time we are in right now.

Each year our P&F organise a ‘stall’ for the children to come and select then purchase gifts for their Mothers or those like mothers.
This year due to COVID-19 restrictions, this will be made available on TryBooking

This week the eldest in each family will bring home a note about this.
Our wonderful P&F will bag and label each gift and then these will be distributed to the children to bring home.

Please Note: Mother’s Day High Tea 2020 – has been cancelled for this year.

Please ensure you all have the SchoolStream app on your phone as we communicate important alerts to you using this platform.
The website is also your go to for information, dates etc.