Please find listed below the announcement from the NSW Government regarding plans for Term Four. As you would appreciate, the plan raises many questions and implications for how we will manage this at a school level. Please be reassured that we will continue to keep you informed as soon as we become more informed.

The NSW Premier has revealed the state’s return to school roadmap, which outlines when students will be able to safely return to school for face-to-face learning in a COVID-safe way.

 The most important details of the roadmap are:

• All schools in NSW will follow the same roadmap. 
• The return to face-to-face learning will be staggered, with different years returning at different times from 25 October 2021 (see timeline below). The start of the staggered return to face-to-face learning depends upon at least 70% of the state’s eligible adult population being fully vaccinated.
• If stay-at-home orders are lifted in an LGA or region before 25 October 2021, all students living or learning in that area will return to face-to-face learning at that time with a level of COVID-safe restrictions in place.

Timeline for the COVID-safe return to face-to-face learning