From the Assistant Principal

The College staff are looking forward to welcoming all students back onsite in Week 9 for face-to-face learning.

Hygiene measures

To ensure that the safety of both staff and students is maintained, the following processes are in place:

• Each classroom has hand sanitiser and antibacterial spray and wipes. Students are encouraged to sanitise their hands and wipe down their desks during lesson time.
• Our cleaners continue to sanitise frequently touched surfaces daily.

Once again we encourage our students to continue to practise good hygiene and to frequently wash their hands while at school, particularly before and after eating and after going to the toilet. Likewise, students are reminded to cough and sneeze into their elbow, dispose of tissues and use alcohol-based hand sanitiser.

As a community, we will be monitoring student health and we ask that parents keep their daughters at home if they are even slightly unwell. If students present with any signs of cold or flu-like symptoms while at the College, we will be in touch and ask that you come and collect your daughter.

Symptoms of COVID-19 are similar to colds and flu and include:

• Fever
• Sore throat
• Cough
• Tiredness
• Difficulty breathing.

A reminder that if your daughter presents with these symptoms, a COVID-19 test is required and results are to be sent to attendance (mscw-attendance@syd.catholic.edu.au) prior to her returning to school. Please note that a Rapid Antigen Test is not a recognised test result for return to school.

Masks are required indoors for all staff and students. It is strongly recommended they are worn outdoors when on-site. Masks are also mandatory on public transport. This applies to students aged 12 years and over when travelling to and from school by public transport.

Uniform

A reminder that each student is expected to wear the College uniform proudly. The College believes that the wearing of our uniform gives students a sense of belonging and fosters our College identity. It is imperative that parents and carers support the College in promoting a positive image for our school.

The College hat is always compulsory when the summer uniform is worn when travelling to and from school.

Students are also reminded of our College expectations with regard to piercings and jewellery. A student may wear one small plain gold or silver earring in each earlobe. No other jewellery is to be worn, apart from a wristwatch. Students are permitted to wear a small religious icon or cross on a thin chain worn inside the uniform and sitting below the uniform’s collar or top button.

College uniform code

Years 7 to 10: Summer, Terms 1 and 4

• MSCW dress – length of the dress should be so that the bottom of the hem touches the ground when the student is kneeling
• MSCW College badge
• MSCW blazer
• MSCW short navy socks
• Shoes: these are to be black, lace-up and able to be polished
• MSCW hat
• MSCW navy tote bag

Years 11 to 12: Summer, Terms 1 and 4

• MSCW kilt – length of kilt should be so that the bottom of the hem touches the ground when the student is kneeling
• MSCW short-sleeved white shirt
• MSCW College badge
• MSCW blazer
• MSCW short navy socks
• Shoes: these are to be black, lace-up and able to be polished
• MSCW hat

As the end of the school year approaches, the College congratulates a large number of our students for their tremendous success in their academic, cultural and sporting endeavours throughout the year. Many students are achieving results that will be recognised at our end of the year Award Presentations, where students will be congratulated for their efforts. It is important at the end of each year that some reflection of results via student reports is done, so as to provide new goals for next year. I encourage both students and their parents to meaningfully engage in reviewing the end of year reports with the view of setting achievable targets for 2022.

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