Starting Term 2 at ORANGE

We will welcome students back to school 9am, Monday 02 May

If your child has become a household contact or tested positive during the holidays, please email office@rewarewa.school.nz NOW, so that we can update our records and confirm your child’s return to school date.

Kia ora to all whanau

We hope you have all had a really lovely break and that everyone is enthusiastic and ready to start back on Monday. Our staff are looking forward to seeing you all again, particularly so that they can share the amazing term 1 student work on display in their classrooms.

At present, we are not aware of any positive cases amongst our student population or staff, for which we are truly thankful. This information is being used to guide our decision-making as we prepare to return.

A change for all NZ schools in term 2 is that they will return under the ORANGE setting. Therefore, there are a few things that you will need to be aware of before your return on Monday 02 May to our school gates.

Please carefully read the ORANGE protocols below. The key changes that you need to be aware of are:

• All students and staff can choose whether to wear masks or not when onsite
• All parents/visitors over the age of 12 years can choose whether they continue to wait outside the school gates OR if they come onsite

BUT,

• Those who choose to come onsite must wear a mask at all times. In particular, masks must be worn when inside classrooms and areas where our students congregate. The office area remains a ‘mask on’ area also.
• Everyone needs to be prepared for quick changes to the ORANGE setting protocols if the situation changes and there is a higher risk of Covid-19 spreading within our school.

We are so excited to be welcoming our mums and dads back into school and look forward to every day where we are able to do this.

Covid-19 Rewa Rewa School Protection Framework

ORANGE Setting

as at 02 May 2022

Common Health measures in this setting include: 

Basic Hygiene and Sanitising 

Includes good hand hygiene, cough and sneeze etiquette, avoid touching your face, and regularly clean and disinfect surfaces. Continue to use hand sanitiser at entrances to indoor spaces at Orange Setting. Our cleaning contractors will continue to maintain a thorough cleaning routine and use high grade cleaning products.

If You Are Sick

Stay home and get tested. If you have cold, flu or COVID-19 symptoms, stay home. Call your doctor or Healthline on 0800 358 5453 for advice about getting tested.  

Staff will observe children on arrival, checking for symptoms. Under Orange Setting those presenting as unwell will be asked to go home or arrange for parents or caregivers to come and pick up. 

Case management

Cases of COVID-19 in our school will continue to be managed in all Covid settings. Staff and students will follow public health guidance to identify who needs to self-isolate and get tested. As at the start of term 2, Rewa Rewa School will continue to monitor positive case numbers involving our staff and students so that we are able to respond quickly should an increase in cases re-occur. All families need to remain on alert for changes to our current protocols/setting and these may be made at short notice.

Ventilation

Indoor spaces will be ventilated by opening windows, doors and any vents. High wind and poor weather may affect how this is undertaken each day. We have a ventilation monitor which enables us to check the immediate level of ventilation in any of our indoor spaces. We have yet to receive an MOE ventilation appliance to use in our classrooms.

Vaccination

The MOH advises that the best way to reduce the risk of severe illness from COVID-19 is to be up to date with vaccinations. Under the new regulations, Rewa Rewa School is not permitted to check the Covid-19 vaccination status of staff, students or visitors onsite. With this in mind, we are working on the assumption that all those on the school site could potentially be unvaccinated. Our Orange Setting measures are therefore a reflection of this, as we continue to try to maintain a safe environment for all those in our community.

Covid-19 Traffic Light Settings

We intend to use the following Orange Setting health measure in our school as from the start of Term 2. Each of these measures will be highly dependent on the current number of positive cases affecting staff, students and our school community, as well as MOH/MOE guidelines. At any point in time we may need to remove/change/add to these measures. For this reason, we ask that all those in our community remain alert.

This term, the main changes that you will notice that are different from RED setting is that mask-wearing for students and staff will be by choice, parents will be allowed back onsite into classrooms, as long as they are masked and all playing areas can be used by everyone.

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2022 Term Dates