25 Mar 2020
24 March 2020
Dear parents The current update can be seen at this link https://www.education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/school-safety/novel-coronavirus#Current0
Advice for parents from the Department of Education
Schools remain open
The health advice on schools remains unchanged. Our Chief Medical Officers indicate that our schools should remain open for education provision at this time.
The Government and Department are encouraging you to keep your child at home from Tuesday 24 March to contribute to supporting the community response to COVID-19. The school’s doors will remain open for those students whose parents are in the essential services or who are vulnerable.
As updated expert information comes to the Department, who are in constant liaison with NSW Health we will keep you informed of any impact on school operations.
Supporting continuity of learning for all students
Our staff have been working hard to develop a suite of learning resources and options for students to undertake from home. The Department has developed and will continue to develop resources and offer professional learning to help teachers with this task.
Whether your child is at school or at home, the aim is for all students to access the consistent learning content provided by our school. This may mean sending work home, either with physical materials or by email, or by making use of one of our online platforms at our school.
Support for students at home
I encourage you to access the Learning from Home resource which provides practical advice to parents and carers on how to best create and support a productive learning environment in the home.
EPPING WEST
If you haven’t provided an email explanation as to absence please send to the eppingwest-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au with student name and class in the subject line
Work provided by the School
Tomorrow work will be sent home by the school. We are planning to send the work week by week on a Wednesday.
K-2 through See-saw and 3-6 through the class Google classroom.
Each family has different facilities in place for devices and the internet- some are being used for “work at home” and in other cases there are a number of family members using the facilities.
At school we have excellent filters provided by the Department and many families have installed software at home to manage this. It is essential that parents supervise childrens’ use of the internet whether computer, ipad or phone both for content and time spent.
Children need a variety of activities including physical during the day so they are not stuck on screens. A timetable is provided in the Learning from Home resource- see above- and each grade will provide tomorrow a general approach to a learning timetable.
Log in is required for See-saw and for Google classroom via the student portal.
Therese Hinder
Principal