From Ms Allum

From Ms Allum

Welcome to Term 4! It is just lovely to see everyone’s smiling faces ready for another term of teaching and learning.

This morning our new Prefects for 2022/2023 were inducted in a beautiful service. Here, they were reminded that they are the ears, hearts and voices of the student body and that they have a responsibility to serve their community and the potential to shape the student experience for their peers – something I am confident they will do with grace and humility. I look forward to working with Bibi Kuo (Head Prefect), Charlotte Taylor (Deputy Head Prefect), the House Prefects Elizabeth Lapham (Badham), Sophie Davis (Barton), Allegra Sintras (Beck), Emma Juneja (Christian), Eva Harris (Docker) and Scarlett Phillips (Langley), along with Prefects Kate Ambrogio, Milla Brown, Ruby Cooney, Maggie-Rose Dunlop, Indiana Meers, Amelia Moran, Eliza Newton, Sally Oppenheim, Leyla Ozen, Helena Piazza and Jemima Smith.

Towards the end of Term 3, it was announced that COVID-19 isolation rules had been revised. From Friday 14 October, isolation requirements for those testing positive for COVID-19 will be removed. As a community, maintaining the health and safety of all students, staff and families will remain a priority. We will continue to operate in a COVID-smart way, with measures in place to curtail transmission. These include:

  • Remaining home and testing if unwell and only attending school if no symptoms are present
  • Conducting rapid antigen testing if symptoms develop
  • Sound hygiene practices including regular hand washing and the use of hand sanitiser
  • Practising good cough and sneeze etiquette by coughing and sneezing into your elbow or into a tissue which is immediately disposed of.
  • Keeping up to date with vaccinations

If your daughter is unwell

Staff and students cannot attend school if they are showing any symptoms of flu or COVID-19.

If symptoms occur at any time, your daughter should not attend school and should undertake a rapid antigen test. Even if she tests negative on a RAHT, please keep her home for 24 hours and then test again. Even if multiple COVID tests (RAHT and/or PCR) come back negative for COVID-19, students should not return to school until all symptoms of the illness have gone.

Health advice is that students who are sick should always stay home to rest and recover and avoid putting others at risk of getting sick.

Please help us keep everyone in our community as safe and well as possible this term!

Happy Term 4 everyone!

Jenny Allum
Head of School