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COVID-19 Update - School Closure & Essential Businesses

23 Mar 2020
COVID-19 Update - School Closure & Essential Businesses |
With today’s announcement by Government, we are implementing with urgency our plan to support your child’s learning from home. We appreciate this is a sudden and significant change, and will be heavily disruptive to many people in our community. Essential Workers For children of essential workers, we look forward to seeing your child here at school tomorrow morning at 8:45 until 2:45. Please email me at kevinb@tehihi.school.nz or text or phone me on 09 292 7706 if you fall into this category and your child will be attending school. You may wish to check if you are considered an essential worker - https://covid19.govt.nz/government-actions/covid-19-alert-system/ however those roles include doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and police. We continue to ask that children who are not well, do not attend school. Isolation Groups If you need to have your child cared for by someone else you will need to identify that person or people as part of your self-isolated group. This will need to be done by midnight Wednesday and the group must remain the same for the whole 4 week period. The caregiver’s own group (eg, their partner and children), your child and your own group (eg, your parents and other children) become one group. This group needs to be limited to minimise any risk of spread and should be no more than 20 people. Supporting Your Child Your child will be looking to you for guidance about this decision. Parents, caregivers, whānau and teachers will have a particularly important part to play in reassuring children at this time. If you haven’t already done so, you may wish to read the information put together by the Ministry of Education to support your conversations with your children – Talking to children about COVID-19 School Holidays Brought Forward School holidays are being brought forward so that they are completed within the 4 week period. Holidays will now begin from Monday 30 March to Tuesday 14 April inclusive (a reminder that the Tuesday after Easter Monday is always a closed day for schools). If you are unable to access online learning, please email me by Tuesday night. We will do our best to get a pack to you on Wednesday. As noted by the Prime Minister these restrictions are our best chance to slow the virus in New Zealand and to save lives. We all have a clear role here to slow the spread of COVID-19. Noho ora mai, stay well, look after yourself, Kevin Bush |