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CORONAVIRUS
BULLETIN #25
Thursday 16 April 2020
“There is a divine beauty in learning …
To learn means to accept the postulate
that life did not begin at my birth.
Others have been here before me
and I walk in their footsteps”
Elie Wiesel (1928-2016)
Author, Professor, Philosopher, Political activist,
Nobel laureate & Holocaust survivor
SPECIAL MESSAGE TO PRINCIPALS
Yesterday afternoon, an email entitled CECV Special Message: Update on the coronavirus outbreak, no. 28:
Attendance Recording was sent to all Principals. This CECV Special Message covered these topics:
Attendance monitoring
Students at risk planning tool
Hand sanitiser availability
Physical distancing guidelines
Update on SIM card and cellular modem provision
Translated remote learning resources
Onsite attendance communication.
The Minister for Education & Training, James Merlino, has directed the VRQA to relax its strict policy
regarding the marking of attendance rolls twice each day.
In the direction, the VRQA is to refrain from reviewing or evaluating school compliance with the prescribed
minimum standard for monitoring and recording student attendance twice a day.
The ministerial direction also directs the VRQA to refrain from pursuing a principal or person in charge of a
registered school for non-compliance with section 4.3.7 of the Education and Training Reform Act. Under this
section, it is an offence if attendance is not recorded in the attendance register in accordance with the
minimum standard.
Recognising that remote learning may create challenges for schools, the ministerial direction affords schools
some flexibility, so that schools may choose to monitor attendance once a day, rather than twice a day. In
transitioning to remote learning schools will need continue to ensure the care, safety and welfare of their
students, including child safety and the different risks posed in an online environment. Schools should also
consider the duty of care owed to students and that different and sometimes greater measures may need to
be taken for younger students or students with disabilities. CLICK HEREONSITE STUDENT ATTENDANCE Thank you to all who uploaded their attendance yesterday. We will continue to assess onsite attendance figures and we are grateful for your support in this regard. We would be grateful if the attached Google document (CLICK HERE) could be completed and uploaded to CES by 3pm each school day. HAND SANITISER Deliveries of the Hand Sanitiser will take place this week to schools who placed an order with Mark White (Operational Services Manager). Although the hand sanitiser comes at a considerable cost, it is a vital tool in our fight against infection from Coronavirus, ensuring that our schools are well equipped to provide the proper hygiene practices during this pandemic. AccessEAP – MESSAGE & NEW RESOURCE Although our new lives of physical distancing and restrictions are challenging, it is incredible how quickly we can adapt. We have been uplifted by messages from you on how you are building our wellbeing and mental health initiatives into everyday work practices in your organisations and looking out for each other. It is always heartening to see Australians pull together to do their part in helping to ease the burden on our primary healthcare services. We have released a new webinar for staff on Coping with COVID-19. This webinar has been uploaded and is available to view right now. You can access the video under COVID-19 SUPPORT in our Employee Login Area. Please note, employees will be required to sign in to access the Login Area. At this stage, we don't plan on reporting on this data, so that we can ensure the confidentiality of your people who access and watch the video. However, we will use our internal data to look for insights on creating new content for your people. LEARNING & TEACHING UPDATES CECV Guidance Regarding Home and Onsite Learning Programs As referenced in the Bulletin #21 last Thursday 9 April, CECV has released the CECV Recommended Additions To School Operating Models (Transition to flexible and remote learning – Term 2, 2020) with the following advice for schools. The learning program delivered onsite should be the same as the learning program delivered to students undertaking remote learning. The CECV recommends the following daily minimum guidelines that mean schools should provide school day learning programs allocated as follows. CES CORONAVIRUS BULLETIN #25 (16 APRIL 2020) Page 2
For Students in Foundation to Year 2:
literacy activities that take a total of about 45–60 minutes
numeracy activities of around 30–45 minutes
additional learning areas, play-based learning and physical activity of approximately 30–45 minutes.
For students in Years 3 to 10:
literacy: 45–60 minutes
numeracy: 30–45 minutes
physical activities: 30 minutes
additional curriculum areas: 90 minutes.
Senior Secondary Years:
Teachers should provide learning resources and tasks that enable students to develop and demonstrate the
learning outcomes defined in the relevant VCE study designs and VCAL strands.
Note:
The programme should incorporate prayer and Religious Education into the daily learning programme as
and where appropriate, to support students encountering the challenges and blessings of the environment
in which they are living and learning.
To see the full CECV advisory document please CLICK HERE
CES Learning Continuity Google Site: Spotlight on Learning Diversity Resources
The CES Learning Continuity Google Site has a collection of resources to support schools in this current period.
To access the site CLICK HERE.
Amongst the resources shared on that site are professional learning activities, webinars and professional
improvement reading and viewing regarding learner diversity. These resources are beneficial for Learning
Support Officers and teachers.
These Learning Diversity resources can be accessed under the “Resources” tab and the two further drill down
tabs of:
“Learner Diversity and Psychology Resources” and/or
“Speech, Language and Communication Resources”
CES School Technology Survey
Dear Principals today you will receive a technology survey from Grant Fitzgerald and David Williams. The
purpose of the survey is for Catholic Education Office Sandhurst staff to gather data and insight into what
our primary and secondary schools are doing and how you are supporting teachers, students and parents
during this period of remote and flexible learning. All data is confidential and will assist CEO staff to develop
professional learning and resources to best support the needs of our schools.
I ask that you please complete the survey before COB Monday the 20th of April. You may also be asked to
edit your responses throughout term 2 as circumstances at each school my change.
CES CORONAVIRUS BULLETIN #25 (16 APRIL 2020) Page 3Communicating Needs to CES Learning and Teaching Team A reminder that schools are encouraged to submit and update feedback or emerging needs to the CES Learning and Teaching Team members via the Google Form that can be accessed as often as required CLICK HERE. Thank you to those who have already opened this line of communication and provided information / support requests and / or feedback for the members of the Learning and Teaching Team. CATHOLIC IDENTITY ‘At Home’ resources from Liturgy Brisbane are attached for the Second Sunday of Easter. *Liturgy Brisbane will continue to produce Sunday Readings and Family Prayer sheets for each week. At this stage, they do not intend to continue producing the extended liturgies produced for Holy Week and Triduum, but may review this because of requests received. CLICK HERE for the second Sunday of Easter family prayer. https://www.liturgybrisbane.net.au/prepare/sunday-readings-and-family-prayer/ The Archdiocese of Melbourne offices are not continuing to produce @Home resources for Sundays. CLICK HERE for the second Sunday of Easter Sunday Reading – Read at Home. Their comprehensive ‘Summit’ Sunday Liturgy resources, however, are freely accessible: https://www.cam.org.au/evangelisation/Summit#12598863-2nd-sunday-of-easter-year-a-19-april Harvest CES Prayer Ritual for Remote Learning Every week of remote learning a student prayer ritual based on the Sunday’s Gospel, will be available to you. It is hoped that teachers, parents or students can lead this important experience in our Catholic schools. You are free to edit this ritual to suit your context. CLICK HERE for the powerpoint. CES CORONAVIRUS BULLETIN #25 (16 APRIL 2020) Page 4
Sandhurst Youth Ministry Morning Prayer To help everyone get their day started while working and studying from home, Sandhurst Youth Ministry will be posting weekday Morning Prayer videos at 8:30am starting on Monday 20th April. We will be using a range of prayer styles offering young people the chance to pray in different ways each morning. Videos will be posted on the SYM Facebook, Instagram and YouTube pages. We encourage you to share them with your school communities. As we get set up, we’re hoping to invite different people to be involved in the creation and filming of these videos. There will be opportunities for student leaders, trainees and younger teachers to help out. SYM generally works with those 15-30 years old, although we are hoping the prayers will be accessible for those outside this age range. For more information get in touch with Ruth: ruth.lawlor@sandhurst.catholic.org.au SOMETHING UPON WHICH TO REFLECT Fr Michael Grace sent me this poem, hoping it might inspire something within each of us. It is certainly worth taking a few minutes to read Fr Michael’s piece. CLICK HERE PAUL DESMOND Director of Catholic Education Sandhurst CES CORONAVIRUS BULLETIN #25 (16 APRIL 2020) Page 5
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