Posted in Continuing under Alert Level 3

Date: 14 August 2020

Kia ora koutou,

With the Prime Minister's announcement that the Auckland Region is continuing under Alert Level 3 for the next 12 days, the school will continue to be partially open. The key messages for all families are:

The school will only be open for students in Y9 and Y10. Y9 and Y10 children of workers in employment that are deemed “essential” or “safe” are among those who may attend school.
If there is a parent or caregiver available to look after the Y9 or Y10 student at home, students are encouraged to continue learning at home.
If your child is in Y9 or Y10 and has a health condition that means they are at greater risk of a severe illness, or if your child is sick, you must keep them at home.
Y9 and Y10 students who are attending school will be placed in a “bubble” of up to 20 students, and will not be able to mix with students in other “bubbles” during the day.
Students who attend school should bring their food (school café not open) and chromebook each day. 
Students in Y11, 12 and 13 are required to continue to work from home. They are not allowed to attend school.

In order to ensure the safety of students and staff who do come to school, we will be operating with strict enforcement of health and safety measures, which are being jointly developed by the Ministries of Education and Health. In order to ensure we have the right safety plans in place for the number of students who will attend at Alert Level 3 we are requiring any student who is going to attend to be registered by emailing Mr Leadbeater at gleadbeater@ohs.school.nz with your child’s name and Kaitiaki class.

I want to assure you that we will continue to support your child’s learning – whether your child is at school or at home, they will have exactly the same programme of on-line learning. Nothing different will be provided for students whether they attend school or learn from home.

We encourage all our students to keep checking their classroom pages, as all teachers will be posting tasks daily for students to work on. We encourage students to keep in touch with subject teachers as they will respond with ongoing advice and feedback to queries about work. Guidelines for students online learning can be found at the following link. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fg8gCT4oDR3VwNQboem-_s6Fz_3IHNmnjLrZKLOT0q0/edit?usp=sharing

Students will be able to come into school from 9.30am - 11.30am from Tues 18 August to collect resources that they require. Students must report to main reception before entering the school.

He waka eke noa. We are all in this together.
Ngā manaakitanga



Deidre Shea
Principal