COVID19

Latest Covid information- Friday 29th October

Opportunity for Covid  Vaccinations. On Monday 1st November the Whanganui Health Board will be running a pop-up vaccination centre at South Makirikiri School. This is providing the opportunity for students 12 and over along with anyone in our community to receive vaccinations.

Students 12 and over will need a parent present. Any of the community will be able to stop in the Media Centre from 2:30-5:00 and receive their vaccination. If you know anyone in the community who is wanting to get either their first or second vaccination please let them know that Monday from 2:30 will be available.

This is making use of the people resource the WHB have here given some senior students their HPV Year 8 vaccinations. 

Masks on Buses:

We have been advised of a review of the wearing of face masks on school buses. The information is as follows.

Students aged 12 and over

 The exemption from wearing face coverings for students on school transport has been revoked under the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Alert Level Requirements) Health Order.

 This means that everyone 12 years and older legally must wear a face covering on school transport services (both Ministry and regional council-operated) at all alert levels unless they have an exemption.

This includes SESTA, daily, technology, direct resourced, and Māori-medium school transport services. It also includes charter buses hired by schools to transport students and staff. 

 Please note, while the school transport drivers are not required to enforce the wearing of face coverings, they will report any non-compliance to your school’s bus controller (noting that some students may be exempt from face-covering requirements for health and safety reasons). Schools are expected to manage any non-compliance just as they currently manage behavioural issues of school transport users.

Students under 12

While we encourage all students to wear face coverings on school transport, students aged under 12 are not required to wear face coverings.

From Monday we ask that you help us with this Health order request.

We will provide masks for those who forget. 

If your child/children have an exemption please let us know.

Thanks for your support with this.

Greg Allan

Please click on the link. to read the latest information regarding how term 4 will operate.

In light of our current Covid restrictions, we have had some clarity about having gatherings at school.
I have been working with the Ministry of Education guidelines which are as follow:

“As soon as your event or activity brings people onsite who are not there for education purposes, including students, parents and caregivers, then the rules for gatherings do apply, including limits on numbers attending. This would include performances such as school plays, cultural events, and sporting activities.

You’ll need to treat the running of any large programs with strong caution, particularly if there are large numbers of students (and parents and caregivers) involved at the same time. We’d recommend that these types of events are deferred until your school returns to Alert Level 1.”

We are in the position of really wanting to have our pet day go ahead but we will be in the situation that our pet day is open to the community where we are not able to stay under the 100 limit which will also includes our students.

We will enable parents to do the dropping off of animals and will need to schedule times but will not be able to have parents as spectators for the day.

We really would like your feedback on how we can make this work.

Morena everyone.

I have held off sending too many details until we received the latest update from the MOE. This has yet to arrive in my inbox but these are the plans for the next two days.