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The Jannali High School

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Continuation of learning at TJHS (Update)

COVID 19

At 2:00pm today the NSW Department of Education Secretary, Mark Scott, ran a livestream for all schools to provide updated and clear messages for their community.  These messages include:

  • School will remain open until the end of this term, however, parents are encouraged to keep their children at home.  Schools will provide a safe place of learning for children of parents working for essential services including teaching.
  • Schools will create one body of work for each year group in each key learning area that can be completed at home and at school.
  • Classes will be supervised to enable students in attendance to complete the unit of work.  In this way schools will create flexible arrangements for organising supervision of classes.
  • School buses will still be operating.
  • Our school canteen will not be operating during these final weeks of term.  If students attend school, parents will need to ensure they come with sufficient food etc.

What we are continuing to do:

  • Work within the current advice of the Department, NESA and NSW Health.
  • Follow year group timetables with adjustments made to teacher allocations, within faculties, based on student attendance.
  • Working with current assessment and reporting schedules for Years 7-12 including Interim Reports. We are still waiting for advice from NESA regarding Semester 1 assessment and reporting.
  • Maintaining the high expectations of all of students regarding their application to and completion of classwork and assessments whether working at school or from home.
  • Applying social distancing requirements across all areas of the school as is reasonable and practicable.
  • Ensuring staff and student toilets are stocked with soap, toilet paper and where possible, hand towel. Schools are also set to receive deliveries of hand soap as liquid soap and sanitiser supplies are becoming difficult to obtain.
  • Requesting that all students take responsibility for their personal hygiene and respect the need for others to do same by using school facilities and equipment respectfully.
  • Maintaining contact with our Director Educational Leadership to support our school’s effective operation.
  • Ceasing all school-based work experience and VET work placements in line with current advice.

What we’re planning to do:

  • Cease all extra-curricular programs including Dance Ensembles, Drama Ensembles, School Band and School Sport.
  • Develop a scope and sequence of learning activities for the remainder of term to be communicated to parents and students.
  • Postpone this year’s School Photos currently calendared for 31 March with the view to rescheduling later in the year.
  • Some assessment tasks are being re-designed to ensure students are able to complete them and submit them in a timely and relevant manner.  In these cases updated assessment notifications will be provided to students.
  • Thursday Sport is being re-organised from week to week to cater for student attendance rates.
  • Ensuring students have continued access to learning and assessments through Google Classroom in every key learning area.
  • Supporting all students’ learning in particular, our Yr12 HSC students with their studies, assessments, major works and performances and VET/EVET requirements.

Student absences:

  • All students are encouraged to stay at home for the remainder of this term.  For those students who do attend they are reminded to adhere to previous advice from NSW Health and the Australian Government regarding self-isolation.

Illness and Misadventure:

Submission of assessment tasks are being revised with notifications being sent out through Google Classroom.  If tasks are not submitted by the revised due date students will need to follow our Illness and Misadventure Procedures in their Assessment Booklets.

Again, thank you all of our staff, students and parents for their ongoing support and understanding during these uncertain times in our school.