Contents
Headmaster
Welcome Back
Middle School End of Semester 1 Homework Club
Iso-Reflection Friday Activities Reminders for Next Week
Junior School Sport Music Careers Calendar Support Groups
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Edition 83, 5 June 2020
From the Headmaster Welcome Back I look forward to welcoming all of our students in Years 4 to 10 back to School next week. It has been terrific having some students back this past fortnight, but it will be even better when we are all back together. I am grateful to our students for assisting us with our heightened cleaning regimes, our emphasis on hand hygiene and physical distancing where possible. Their assistance with these things has meant that the return to School has been relatively seamless. A reminder that next Monday is a public holiday and there will be no classes at School or online. As more students return to School, can I remind everyone of the following: • Students should move directly into classrooms when they arrive, and not wait outside in groups. • Students should use the cleaning materials in each room to wipe down their desk at the beginning of the period. • Students should also regularly use hand sanitizer which is located around the School. • Students should not come to School if they are experiencing any symptoms of illness at all. • The Canteen is open, but only for pre-ordered food. Students who wish to use the canteen will need to download the FlexiSchools app, set up an account and preload it with some money. Food will be available for pick up only at recess and lunch. • Drink taps are unavailable for use, so students may wish to bring a drink bottle. • If students have a scheduled PE class during the day they may come to School in their PE uniform and wear it all day. Students will be able to change for all other sporting commitments. • I encourage all students to download the CovidSafe app and have it running on their phones. Students are allowed to carry their phones with them on campus at this time. This will mean that if we do discover a case of Covid-19 in our community we will be able to complete contact tracing quickly and efficiently. We are now in the assessment stage for Semester 1 in preparation for our reports. Tests and examinations have been taking place, and our first ever online examinations have proven to be an interesting challenge! It has been a very unusual year for us all, and our reports therefore will reflect these different circumstances. We have Parent-Teacher interviews scheduled for early in Term 3 and given the uncertainty surrounding social gathering restrictions, we thought it would be wise to plan for these being conducted over the ZOOM platform. It is envisaged that parents will be able to schedule appointments in the normal way, but then log into a ZOOM meeting with each of their son’s teachers from home. It may be that we find this something worth pursuing in the future! We will provide more detail about this closer to the time. Our new DEEDs app and website with its live news stream, will soon replace the Weekly Bulletin. The app will target news to each group of parents, and will also increasingly become a way for us to communicate with parents, to complete forms and to share information. For the rest of this Term we will continue to send out the Bulletin, and also to use the app – this article, for example, will also appear in the app – but from the start of next Term, the Bulletin will cease and DEEDs will replace it. If you have not already done so, please download this free app – search for Camberwell Grammar DEEDs – in the App Store or on Google Play. Thanks once more to everyone for your forbearance and understanding during these uncertain and challenging times. It has been a joy to welcome students back to School and I look forward to us all being together again next Tuesday. We have three weeks left to finish this Term, and I am sure we are all looking forward to a holiday! Paul Hicks, Headmaster
Middle School
We are so excited to see the students back on campus next Tuesday and I know how much the students are looking forward to seeing each other again. To assist with safety and continue the great work we have all put in over the past 10 weeks, I ask that all students and parents take a close look through the relevant flyers for students and parents posted to Schoology and DEEDs outlining the changes we have put in place. Whilst we transition back to School, we need to remember that things will be different; at least for a while.