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We are proud to be a Share Our Space school these school holidays, placing the school at the heart of our community by helping provide more quality open spaces to enjoy.

Whether you’re looking for a place to play sport with friends, exercise using fitness equipment, or simply to relax and gather with your family, you can Share Our Space with participating schools opening from 8am to 5pm from Monday 28 June – Friday 9 July, including weekends and public holidays.
Key things to know about Share Our Space:

Gates are opened at 8am and closed at 5pm each day.

To remind visitors to maintain appropriate physical distancing and COVID safe hygiene practices, additional signage will be provided. An external cleaning service will also be provided twice weekly to all Share Our Space schools during the holidays and at the end of the program.

The list of schools that are open may change because of

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Learning from home; schools are open for families who need it – applies to schools in Greater Sydney (including the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong and Shellharbour).
Students learning from home. No student is to be turned away. Early childhood education services can continue to operate.
All non–core curriculum related activities are to cease on school site.
Schools should not turn away any student from attending the school site in person. Schools will provide a program of learning for students who attend school, and students who are learning from home.
Schools will revert to their remote learning mode, using existing resources and programs. For additional support, refer to Learning from home.
Under the current health orders, there is nothing to restrict students and staff who must attend school from moving between two areas with different levels of restrictions.
Latest advice
Refer to Advice for families for the latest information.

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Restrictions on certain activities and non-essential visitors – applies to schools outside of Greater Sydney (including the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong and Shellharbour).
All students are expected to be at school unless they have even the mildest of COVID-19 symptoms.
Under the current health orders, there is nothing to restrict students and staff who must attend school from moving between two areas with different levels of restrictions. Students and staff should reduce traveling to geographical areas with higher levels of COVID-19 restrictions in place.
A reminder for all families
Students should not attend school if unwell, even with mild symptoms of COVID-19. Any person with any COVID-19 symptoms should be sent home and should not return until they have received a negative test result and are symptom-free. In circumstances where children have other medical reasons for recurrent symptoms a letter from their GP is sufficient to negate the requirement for a negative test.
Anyone

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Special Religious Education (SRE)/Special Education in Ethics (SEE) is not currently permitted in Greater Sydney, including the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong and Shellharbour.
Approved providers have modified their authorised curriculum to enable students to learn from home.
Parents/carers may wish to access the SRE and SEE resources through the portal entry points to lesson content below:

Approved providers for All Faiths SRE (Islamic, Jewish, Buddhist, Bahai, Hindu)
Approved providers for Christian based faith SRE
Primary Ethics for SEE

For more information or support on these resources, please contact the approved provider.

Refer to the department’s COVID-19 Advice for families page for more information on school operations.

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This year’s NAIDOC Week theme is ‘Heal Country!’
view celebrations here

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NSW Department of Education STAY COVID safe

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Is your child interested in learning new skills at school through virtual vocational education and training courses? 
From next year, schools in NSW will be able to offer 20 new virtual vocational courses to Year 11 students. These new industry focused courses will contribute to a student’s HSC and ATAR. They will also give students great in-demand and practical skills for the workplace. 
The courses focus on current skills needs and include: 

allied health assistant

game design

cyber security 

robotics 

digital supply chain.

The virtual courses are different to ‘online’ learning in that they are delivered via a virtual classroom with a teacher, other students in the class, and an established weekly timetable. This will be complemented with 24/7 access to content, chat rooms and tutorials to connect with other students. 
Each of the new courses is part of an existing NESA Industry Curriculum Framework (ICF) syllabus. 
Expressions of interest (EOI) for the courses are open now but be quick,

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VFest 2021
V-FEST 2021 is premireing on YOUTUBE next Monday 29 November AT 7:00PM.
Here is the link: V-FEST 2021

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Have your say. A short survey for parents and carers is now open to help the Department strengthen consent education for students.
Students from across the state, both past and present, have this year called for improved consent education.
This was sparked by a petition by former Sydney student Chanel Contos, which led to thousands of young people sharing their stories of witnessing or experiencing, sexual harassment, abuse and violence amongst young people.
In response to the voices of young people, the heads of the three education sectors signed a Statement of Intent. In this Statement, the NSW Department of Education committed to a number of actions – including partnering with parents and carers to improve consent education.
There is now an opportunity for parents and carers to have their say by completing a short survey.
This anonymous survey is available in 10 languages other than English and will take less than 10 minutes to complete.
It is part of

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Earlier this week, the Industrial Relations Commission ordered the NSW Teachers Federation to stop strike action planned for Tuesday, 7 December.
The order extends to any other form of industrial action relating to the Federation’s current wage claims. The Federation has declared it will defy these orders and the strike is likely to go ahead. I want to reassure you that we are doing all we can to ensure teaching and learning continues without disruption – especially given the difficulties and challenges students, parents and families have experienced during the course of this year.
The current Teachers’ Award expires on 31 December 2021 and the department has been negotiating a new Award with the Teachers Federation, with the assistance of the Commission. We have been unable to reach agreement on a final Award and the matter will be arbitrated by a Full Bench of the Commission, scheduled for May 2022.
Rather than wait until the outcome of the arbitration in May, the department has

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