St Paul's Catholic Parish Primary School Camden
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20 Mitchell Street
Camden NSW 2570
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Phone: 02 4654 8900
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Kindergarten 2021

Brigance testing begins Monday, 7 September 2020 and concludes Wednesday, 16 September 2020. Please contact the school office if you require your time confirmed.

Unfortunately, this year due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, the school in conjunction with the Catholic Education Office has needed to make the following changes concerning the Kindergarten Orientation days;

  • ‘Transition to School Playgroup’, has been cancelled.
  •  Face to face parent information sessions 1 & 2 have been cancelled.

All parents will be emailed a link that will provide you with a pre-recorded video of both parent information sessions.  This will allow parents to view the link as often as they need and when they choose.

  • No parents will be allowed on the school site.
  • On both orientation mornings we ask that only one parent accompany their child on this day and that they deliver their child to the John Street gate for 9:30am, you will be asked to sign your child into the school. The school will have teachers and school support officers to escort the children to the kindergarten classrooms for their orientation morning. 
  • Both kindergarten orientation days will conclude at 11am. Parents will need to collect their child from the John Street gate and sign them out of the school.
  • Parents will still be able to purchase their child’s ‘2021 School Pack’ that includes a school bag, school hat & school library bag. These packs will be sold from the Heritage Hall court yard. 
  • Parents will be required to adhere to social distancing measures on both orientation days.

Please understand that these measures have been put in place to keep all our students, staff and community safe.  The school is receiving continuous advice from the Catholic Education Office and the NSW Department of Health and other agencies to ensure our processes and plans are in line with best practice and the latest expert advice. 

Illness

Please do not send you child to school if they are sick.

During this time, the CEO is in line with the Federal and State Government directives to ensure we offer a safe school/workplace for children and staff. It is therefore your duty of care to the school that you as a parent keep sick children at home until they are fully recovered, regardless of the type of illness your child has.
If your child presents to the sick bay with cold/flu like symptoms, they will have their temperature taken and will be required to wear a mask, as per CEO guidelines. Parents will be phoned to immediately collect their child.
Following last weeks Catholic Education Office's new guidelines, as from Tuesday, 18 August 2020 students who are sent home from school when they are unwell with cold/flu like symptoms will need to obtain a negative COVID-19 test before they can return to school.
It is important that we maintain the regulations required in terms of reporting any incidents of COVID-19. It is also vital that you inform the school if your child has been tested for COVID-19, or is in isolation due to being a close contact of someone being tested.
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School Fee Payments

The preferred method of payment for over the counter transcations at the school office is via Eftpos.

Provision of Water

A reminder the school bubblers continue to not be in use.   

We ask that you please ensure your child has sufficient water for the school day.