Evening family and whanau, The weather truly has made it very pleasant around school for all those able to attend. Just as an update, alongside our current number of students and families isolating due to Covid we have been informed of a student who was at school today that has
Friday 28th January Dear Parents, Caregivers and Whānua, There are exciting times ahead. Come Tuesday the 1st of February we will enter another interesting year for education and for our whole community. I have waited to send information about how we will be starting the year until we have the
southmakoffice No hockey practice for Year 7 and 8 today due to the weather.
School Photos will be taken on Tuesday 14th June. Sibling photos are being offered, so if you require a form, please collect this from the office and fill in and return to school on or before Tuesday 14th June.
Emails coming from school
It appears that some parents are not receiving email coming via our student management system (etap). This is our most effective way of sending bulk emails. I have been sending out daily emails so if you are not receiving them, please follow the guidelines below. The explanation from etap.
Make sure you check Spam/Junk as eTAP emails land there incorrectly.
Etap do have issues with hotmail / outlook / live accounts :
Try this option if you do not receive any of the emails from eTAP
Parents may have to add etap.co.nz to their ‘safe list’ & they will get emails sent from eTAP.
Click on “Options” in the upper right corner of your Hotmail/Gmail screen.
Then click the link for “Safe and Blocked Senders” in the body of the page under Junk e-mail.
Click the “Safe Senders” link and enter the email address you want to whitelist.
Click “Add” to put it on your list.
We are currently looking into solutions for this still.
We hope this helps.
Nga Mihi
Greg Allan
Hi all,
I would just like to keep you updated with how South Makirikiri School is going regarding Covid and the new guidelines that have just been issued.
Firstly:
We currently have one family isolating as two students from within that family have tested positive for COVID. We are very fortunate that no staff members have been affected as yet.
Please can we encourage you to call the office if your child is absent so that we know whether it is COVID related. In addition to this if you are at home isolating then please let us know if any students test positive. We are keeping a spreadsheet here at school and so would like to know when peoples Day 0 is in terms of them returning to school.
I would like to say a huge thank you to you all for the wonderful way that you are all dealing with this. We appreciate you keeping your child at home with a cough or a sneeze even when we know it isn’t COVID. We are very fortunate here – many schools seem riddled with it – yet we are not, and that is down to you and the way you are managing your households.
THANK YOU.
On Friday this week the rules around isolation are changing from 10 days to 7. This means that:
If the person has COVID and their day 7 is on Saturday 12th or later then they can return to school on Monday 14th providing they have been symptom free for 24 hours. My understanding is that you do not have to provide the negative test as it is in your system but you are through the infectious stage.
If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to contact me tomorrow.
Keep up the good work.
Nga Mihi
Greg Allan
Headlice
We seem to have an outbreak of headlice across the school, so ask parents to please be vigilant in checking their child/ren’s hair and treating if required. Thank you.
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