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Update on Covid @ South Mak

March 16, 2022

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

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Update on Start of Year managing Covid:

January 28, 2022

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

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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 you test positive that is your day 0 and you are free to leave isolation on day 8 providing you have no symptoms. If you have symptoms then you are to remain in isolation until 24 hours after having no symptoms.
  • If you are a household contact then you only need to isolate for 7 days and can leave home on day 8 providing you have no symptoms and have returned a negative test on day 7.
For household contacts only who are currently isolating: If your day 7 is Saturday 12th or after and you have no symptoms and a negative test you can return on Monday 14th.

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

Update on Start of Year managing Covid:

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 most up-to-date information in our Covid Response Planning.

Facemasks:

From the 3rd of February Facemasks must be worn by staff and students from Year 4- 8 when in the classrooms. 

These will also need to be when on school transport, going to swimming. While it is not required for those under Year 4, this may be a choice you make with your tamariki. We are working on providing learning opportunities throughout the day that enables learning to occur outdoors as we have a wonderful space for this to occur.

Parents on site:

 If you require coming into the school grounds we ask that you follow the requirement of wearing facemasks and use the covid tracer app and scan in. Parents are encouraged to avoid going into the classroom other than to settle your child/children for the day’s learning.

Please try to limit the use of the office area to having one person in the foyer at a time and don’t be offended if we ask you to put a mask on. 

If you have a mask exemption can you please advise us.

Swimming:

At this stage we are still able to continue swimming. Students will be required to wear face masks on school transport. Unless they have an exemption.

Sickness: 

If your child is sick please keep them at home. We appreciate this is hard to do always but rely on your support with this.

Impact on Teachers:

We will always do our best to make sure we have a teacher in front of each class each day. At times our resources may get stretched and we need to split classes. We are working in extraordinary times and are constantly adapting plans to ensure the students have the best people in front of them teaching.

 

Term Dates:

Term 1: Tue 1 Feb – Thu 14 Apr

Term 2: Mon 2 May – Fri 8 Jul

Term 3: Mon 25 Jul – Fri 30 Sep

Term 4: Mon 17 Oct – Wed 14 Dec

TOD: Fri 11 March

 

Nga mihi 

 

Greg Allan

Principal

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