Dear Friends,

We have had a wonderful and settled week with all of our students from ELC to Year 6 back at school.  Seeing the smiles on their faces and their gratitude at physically being with their teachers and friends has been heart warming. Thank you so much to all our parents and families who have supported this smooth transition and continued to place  great trust in us. 

As well as the safety procedures put in place at Holy Trinity,  discussed in previous correspondence,  we have now made some adjustments, with the new road map introduced on the 1st of November as follows: 

• masks will no longer be required outdoors but must continue to be worn indoors subject to any exemptions.

• Students from individual classes or cohort groups can participate in a school choir, band, or orchestra. Singing and playing wind instruments can resume indoors, with appropriate physical distancing to be maintained.

• Students from individual classes or cohort groups can participate in a dance class indoors.

• Specialist tutors (e.g. music tutors) are permitted on site with any additional risk mitigation measures in place where required.

• Community use of school facilities (e.g. hall hire) can resume outside of school hours with COVID-safety measures in place and cleaning of high touch surfaces between bookings.

• Canteens can resume counter services with a COVID safety business checklist in place, and one person per four square metres.

Please note there are no changes to visitor restrictions and checking in requirements.   Further easing of restrictions ti occur after the 28th of November will be detailed in the coming weeks.

This week were able to finally present our Term 3 week 5 an 10 award recipents with their certificates.  Tomorrow we will present outside (with COVID safety procedures in place and weather permitting!) our Week 5 awards  for this term.  We will publish these recipients in next week's newsletter. 

As discussed in last week's newsletter we have begun planning for 2022, with staffing and class structures.  When considering class compositions there is many factors to take into account. As  a PYP school, collaboration is an essential component of your child's learning, and although students are placed in home rooms with a specific teacher, there are many occasions throughout the day or week, where classes are mixed or opened for differing groupings, based on the learning occurring. If a parent has a particular concern regarding the placement of their child/ren in classes, this should be written in an email to me by this Friday Week 5, 5th November, and this concern will be considered seriously. However, there are no definite guarantees regarding parent requests as there is much to consider as stated above.  Please note, teacher requests are not to be included in these emails.

Today we launched our school facebook page. At a School board meeting, last term this was discussed and a decision was made to commence a school page.  This page provides our community with a wonderful platform to share and celebrate all the wonderful learning experiences and achievements of our school community.

Please log on and follow us!

HOLY TRINITY PRIMARY SCHOOL AND ELC CURTIN

Enjoy a relaxing weekend with your loved ones, after a big couple of weeks transitioning back to school learning. Please do not hesitate to reach out for anything at all and continue to stay safe. 

Warmest wishes,

Philippa