Online Learning Update 23/8

At this difficult time for everyone in NSW, it is important that you are kept up to date with the latest developments on how the NSW Department of Education is continuing to support schools, students and families.

First, a big thank you to every family for your efforts to support learning from home for your children. We acknowledge the experience for every family will be different. The connection between the school, teacher, you and our students is vital to ensure that everyone feels supported. Even in a learning from home environment these connections can have a profound impact on the learning that continues to take place.

The department is working very closely with NSW Health as the restrictions and the stay at home orders change. The clear messaging from Health, at this current time, is that families should be keeping children at home unless it is absolutely necessary they need to attend school.

Staying up to date

There are regular meetings between the department, NSW Health, the Government and a range of other agencies. The department has been advocating strongly for staff and students to have access to vaccinations, to seek clear information on how we can help to keep our communities safe and up to date with relevant information.

The department’s COVID-19 page is constantly being updated, and outlines the restrictions in our schools as well as other useful information and resources to keep you up to date and supported.

Learning from Home

All schools across NSW are now implementing their Learning from Home programs.  All of our school work is being supplied on the RHS Remote Learning HUB.  The learning from home page  also has a wide range of curriculum based activities to further supplement your child’s learning, if required.

We understand the pressures of parents both supervising learning from home as well as completing their own work. Parents are the best judge of what is appropriate for your child to be doing at home. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me or your child’s teacher if you need further guidance or something is not working for you.

We will continue to keep you updated as soon as we have more information about the continuation of remote learning.

Assessments

Year 11

The Assessment Period timetable has now been emailed home for Year 11 students. Please be aware that participating in the online exams and the submission of assessment tasks is compulsory. Failure to complete these tasks and examinations may results in a student not being able to progress to Year 12. Please reach out to Ms Seng (Year 11 Year Advisor) if you have questions or concerns

Years 7-10

Assessment notifications will be issued to students over the coming weeks for the units we have been studying this term. These tasks have been modified to allow for students to complete these tasks at home. Please ensure these are completed by the due dates. Non-completion warnings will be issued for missed tasks.

Lists of due assessment tasks for each year group will be uploaded to the Remote Learning HUB later this week.

Online Learning PRIDE Awards

Congratulations to our Online Learning PRIDE Award Winners for Week 6! It is not easy maintaining focus when working from home, but these students are smashing it out of the park! Awesome work.

Year 7 – Kaylee N

Year 8 – Matthew C

Year 9 – Destiny I

Year 10 -Leilani T

Year 11 – Lily C

Support - Ethan H

Stay Safe

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