PARENTS ON SITE

Parents and carers are allowed on school sites or at off-site school events held during school hours for the following purposes:

• Essential parent and carer meetings with teachers and/or school executives with a scheduled appointment.
• Attending a school administration building or another defined location for the purpose of picking up their child if they are unwell or where they have been asked to arrange for a COVID-19 test after their child has displayed flu-like symptoms while at school.
• Volunteering for canteen and uniform shop duties, or collecting and purchasing uniforms.
• Volunteering in educational support roles for activities essential to the delivery of the curriculum such as reading groups, music, dance and kitchen garden areas. Please note that scheduled programs will be in place and parents and carers must not attend school unless it has been previously arranged.
• Attending parent orientation meetings and ‘meet the teacher’ meetings with school staff for all year/stage groups.
• Parents may attend P&F meetings held after school hours with a COVID-19 Safety Plan. Gatherings are limited to 30 people indoors and 50 people outdoors for schools within Greater Sydney and Wollongong

WHEN A STUDENT OR STAFF MEMBER IS UNWELL WITH FLU-LIKE SYMPTOMS

• Students or staff showing signs of being unwell must be sent home ASAP.
• Schools must maintain an isolation room for persons showing symptoms of COVID-19 while they await collection.
• When the reason for their absence was illness with flu-like symptoms (as outlined by NSW Health) students and staff are required to be free of symptoms AND present a negative COVID-19 test, which must be sighted by the school, before returning to school.
• In circumstances where students have other medical reasons for recurrent symptoms, a letter from the GP is sufficient to negate the requirement for a negative test.
• Students and staff are encouraged to get tested as soon as possible if they display flu-like symptoms.

REQUIREMENTS FOR RETURNING TO SCHOOL AFTER SELF-ISOLATING OR UNDERGOING TESTING

• Students and staff who have undergone testing but HAVE NOT been directed to self-isolate can return to school when they have received a negative test result AND are not displaying symptoms of illness.

• Schools must sight the student or staff member’s negative COVID-19 test result and make a file notation of the date and the staff member who sighted the negative test result.

• Students and staff who have been directed to self-isolate and have undergone testing can return to school when their 14-day isolation period is complete AND they have received a negative test result AND they are not displaying symptoms of illness.