Welcome back to all our St Ita’s families, I hope you have all had a restful break and feel rejuvenated, recharged and rested. Term 2 was different to say the least and I would like to thank all our families for the patience and support you afforded our teaching staff during off site remote learning. St Ita’s teaching staff did an amazing job working with our children and are prepared for the possibility of more off site learning should the need arise.
Thankfully, at this point of time, we will be operating school as normal but will be continuing with the same drop off and pick up procedures that we were using last term.

A – K Family Surnames to drop off/pick up their children up at the regular Victoria St staff carpark loop.

L – Z Family Surnames to drop off/pick up their children at the Drouin Rec Reserve car-line loop.

I will send out any updates from DOSCEL as they come to hand. Fingers crossed all stays the same but with the current escalation rate of Covid-19 it may cause some significant changes, which we will face once they arrive.

COVID SAFE PRACTICES AT ST ITA'S

As part of our responsibility to keeping all in the St Ita’s Learning community safe during Covid-19 times we will be making sure all the previous Covid-19 routines and safety measure are still in place at our school.

We will continue to promote:

• students keeping healthy and clean
• correct hand washing and sanitizing procedures whilst at school
• practicing correct social distancing whilst at school
• safe pick up and drop off procedures at school

We will commence daily morning temperature checks of all students arriving on site.

As we have students attending St Ita's who live West of the Bunyip River and as per an updated directive from DOSCEL today, commencing this Friday we will now temperature check digitally, all students arriving on site at each entry point of the school. If any of these students display an elevated temperature (37.5c or higher) they will not be able to enter the school and will need to be taken home exiting the school site.

For the safety and well-being of all students, we would like to re-iterate that students are not to arrive at school before 8.30am. All gates are locked until supervision commences at 8.30am and students cannot enter the school site before supervision commences and the student's temperature is taken. Students are not to be left unattended without a parent outside of the school grounds prior to 8.30am. Camp Australia is available for supervision prior to 8.30am if required. 

If your child is showing any signs of illness please do not send them to school. If your child is displaying any flu like symptoms our advice would be to seek medical advice and keep them at home until you receive the clearance for your child to return to school.

Each fortnight on a Friday at 2.50pm, we will conduct a whole school Google Meet assembly for our students whilst in their classrooms. At this assembly our school leaders will present the Welcome to Country, a school prayer and read out the class and Holy Spirit awards.