• Assemblies to be limited to 15 minutes 
• Students and staff with flu-like symptoms must not attend school or will be sent home and tested for COVID-19.
• Where COVID-19 testing has occurred due to flu-like symptoms, and not due to close contact with a positive COVID-19 case, the person being tested must self-isolate until they receive a negative result. If the result is positive, they are required to self-isolate for 14 days. Family members are not required to self-isolate until the test result is received - although we encourage them to do so.
• The school must sight a negative test result before staff/students return to school.
• Staff/students must be symptom-free before returning to school.
• Schools should limit learning activities to year groups where possible (this excludes playgrounds, before school, recess and lunch activities).
• Only external providers of essential curriculum may continue activities (eg. music tutors, Healthy Harold, sport skill development programs etc).
• Day time excursions are permitted within the local area only, subject to appropriate risk assessments.
• Overnight excursions and camps can resume where they are a necessary part of a student’s education program.
• Schools may hold a Year 6 Assembly and Awards to recognise the completion of primary school for Stage 3 Students subject to meeting NSW Health requirements.
• Kindergarten Orientation can be commenced from 1 November subject to meeting NSW Health requirements. This includes:
  • parents only being permitted to remain on the school premises for 10 minutes; and
  • students being free from COVID-19 like-symptoms and the school following COVID-19 safe practices.
  • All face-to-face P&F activities to cease or be conducted remotely.
  • No P&F / Community Council social gatherings.
• No parents or carers on site unless the meeting is considered essential and should be by exception.
• Parent and carer attendance not permitted at assemblies and other school events.
• Parent and carer volunteers not permitted – e.g. parent reading helpers (note: canteen volunteers are permitted)
• School-based activities that involve large gathering of adults not permitted. These include parent/community gatherings such as parent functions, working bees, fundraisers, school barbecues, large parent information evenings, and large on-site cultural events.
• All students should be either:
  • at school;
  • at home because they are currently unwell;
  • at home due to self-isolation requirements;
  • at home because they have a medical certificate which states that they are unable to return to school due to an ongoing medical condition (or in limited cases where a family member has an ongoing medical condition).

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