In the weeks since the first outbreak of Covid-19, our students and staff have accomplished amazing things to keep students learning while they transition to remote learning.  

Students have embraced online learning from home and for those students who are still attending school, they too are enjoying the new way of learning during this challenging time.

"It’s definitely a different approach to learning by working at home. It is challenging but with the help from our teachers, we will all work through this to the best of our ability". – Hamish Organ, Year 6

During this time, teachers are making a concerted effort to maintain regular contact with students via email and face to face on video linkups. This is an essential part of the program. They are also committed to contact with all families.

In the next few days the school will send out a survey to families seeking feedback about how learning@home is working for your children. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey. This will inform our practices.

Also a reminder to families that the school is open to children of essential workers and vulnerable children. An essential worker is effectively anyone who is working. If you are having difficulties juggling work and learning@home your children are welcome to attend school. Further, if you are having difficulties generally, Please contact the school to discuss options to help, including sending your children to school.

We also encourage you to contact the class teachers with any queries or concerns about the learning program. If you or your children don't understand the curriculum set, for example, the content or how to do or interpret a task, contact your teacher immediately.

Lastly, we encourage all those who are home schooling to send in your photos - photos of you learning, learning from home.  The photos we have seen to date have been awesome - we've seen students cooking, creating, playing, working on their farm and photos with their pets. Please email any photo you have onto your teachers - Keep them coming - we LOVE seeing your photos !

During this difficult and uncertain time, a daily Prayer and Reflection will be posted to the St Joseph’s School Facebook page every day. It is hoped that these selections can provide time to pause in the busyness of our day and a reason to recognise all the good we do have in our lives.