Your Place and Mine

08/10/2022

08/09/2021

Alert Level 2 information
Kia ora whānau,

We are really looking forward to welcoming everyone back onsite on Thursday morning.
At Alert Level 2 there is low risk of community transmission and it provides us with a lot more opportunities to engage and connect with others. However, there are still a number of public health requirements we all need to follow. Please do continue to monitor your health and do not send your children to school if they are not well (and please seek advice about getting a COVID test).
For us, all the required safety precautions for Alert Level 2 will be in place which include following all the recommendations from the public health experts. This means we will regularly clean and disinfect high-touch surfaces, encourage everyone to frequently wash their hands and cough and sneeze into their elbow.
While physical distancing is not a requirement in schools, we will be doing our best to keep students from congregating in very large numbers and keeping spaces well-ventilated.
Face coverings are not required to be worn in school. The Director General of Health has recommended that children 12 years+ wear a face covering at school – just as older children are required to wear face coverings in some other places. The decision to wear a face covering is up to you and your whānau, whatever your decision it will be respected.

For most day to day activities at schools, the rules for gatherings do not apply. Under the COVID-19 Public Health Response Order, schools are exempted from physical distancing requirements when people are there to receive, provide, or support education services.
However 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. This would include performances such as school plays, cultural events and sporting activities.
Schools will close for cleaning and contact tracing if there is a confirmed case who was infectious when at school.
Face coverings are not required at school but they are recommended for students 12 and over.
This includes charter buses hired by the school to transport students and staff. Anyone who chooses to wear a face-covering in any setting will be supported to do so.
Sick people (staff and student) must stay at home.
They should seek medical advice if they have COVID-like symptoms and get tested if advised to do so. If that person displays relevant symptoms of COVID-19, tests positive for COVID-19, or has been in close contact with someone who tests positive for COVID-19, they must self-isolate.
The schools has a contact tracing system in place.
We have QR code posters at your entrances an attendance register of students and visitor register which all visitors )includeing caregivers) must sign. At Level 2, caregivers are to drop students off at the gates.
Fundamental public health measures continue to apply at every alert level:
Physical distancing (not touching and not breathing on each other at Alert Level 2)
Hand hygiene
Cough and sneeze etiquette
Regularly cleaning and disinfecting high touch surfaces.
Students are required to bring own water bottle and snack for afternoon .

11/08/2020

LEVEL 2 HEALTH and SAFETY PROTOCOLS

The Prime Minister has made the announcement that we will be moving to Alert Level 2 tomorrow (Wednesday 12th August) at midday.

The teachers will also go over these protocols or “rules” tomorrow; from then on they will explain and reinforce them as required.

We would appreciate your support to reassure the children that although some things will be new, school is a SAFE place to be and we are happy to have them

Please bring:
drink bottles

10/07/2020

Sadly some of our children will be too old (turning 14) to come to us now but the good news is this has opened some spots. You may even be eligible for the OSCAR subsidy! It's for before school, after school and holiday programme 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️💁‍♀️💁‍♀️

08/06/2020

Your Place an Mine is taking enrollments. For Before,after and holiday school care. We have limited spaces.

08/06/2020

COVID-19 update
8 Junehttps://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12338052&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nzh_fb

Kia ora koutou

Great news that we are moving to Alert Level 1 from midnight tonight. This is recognition of the efforts by all to keep each other safe.

But as the Prime Minister pointed out - while this is a very important milestone, the job is not done. We need to continue to be vigilant – wash and dry hands, and recall where we have been so that we can contact trace if required.

Throughout the Alert Levels, you have innovated, adapted and taken every step necessary to keep children and young people, and their families and whānau, connected to and participating in their education. Thank you all for your leadership. I know some of you are still working to bring children back to school – the Alert Level 1 announcement should build confidence. If you need support to work with families who are still unwilling to bring their children to school, or who you have lost contact with, please talk to your regional teams.

At the Ministry, we are taking the opportunity to reflect on what worked well during the past 75 days and to identify those things we want to keep doing. I encourage you to do the same, before the events are forgotten in the mists of time.

As you welcome in Alert Level 1, remember that our support is one of the constants you can rely on - so please get in touch with our regional teams who are keen to work with you.

Today’s Bulletin focuses on Alert Level 1 guidance and the next Bulletin will come out on Thursday 11 June.