Kia Ora Parents and Friends of the College,
Following last night's announcement that our region was going back into Alert Level 2, the management team has met to look at what this means for us.
Our aim is to take a conservative approach to implementing systems for Covid 19.
Over the next 72 hours, we will try to limit the number of events where students are not able to have some form of social distancing.
This will mean the following:
No face to face assembly today - we will hold this virtually.
No house singing on Thursday
No Mass on Friday
We will also implement Covid 19 hygiene measures as required under Alert Level 2.
This will mean the following:
The use of hand sanitiser in classrooms and around the school
The reintroduction of the one-way system for the stairs
The use of the contact tracing app for people visiting the school
Classrooms, where possible, will be arranged so that students are not in each other’s breath zone.
We are watching carefully for announcements from the Prime Minister and the Director-General of Health with regards to further movements. We are also implementing the recommendations from the Ministry of Education.
At Level 2 all students are able to attend educational institutions, and hostels remain open, but we ask that if your student is sick, or you have suspected symptoms of Covid 19 in your household, that students stay home from school.
We have our online platform ready to switch to distance learning if that is the path we need to go down after Friday. If there are families who need support with obtaining internet access or computer hardware, please contact the college as soon as possible so that we can have a seamless transition, if need be, to online learning for all of our college family.
Our mandate here today is to “keep calm and carry on”, remembering that for some of our students this move the Alert Level 2 may be distressing. If you feel your student needs support from our pastoral team, please do not hesitate to contact us.
We ask also that you keep an eye on emails and Facebook posts from the college for updates.
God Bless
Paul Olsen
