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The Hills Sports High School

The Hills Sports High School

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Telephone02 9622 7300

Emailhillssport-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au

COVID-19 SCHOOL CLOSURE PLAN

The Hills Sports High School

COVID-19 SCHOOL CLOSURE PLAN

·         The Department of Education will close the school and require all students and staff to leave the school grounds as soon as practical after the notification of a confirmed COVID-19 case which impacts the school.

·         In this situation, the office will SMS all parents with mobile phones recorded on our system and advise that students will need to be picked up immediately. We will also email parents and post this message on our website and on Facebook.

·         Should a parent wish to confirm the message that we are closing the school and sending students home then please ring the school office (9622 7300) for that confirmation or check our website or Facebook page.

·         Students will need to be picked up from one of the various school gates according to their surname (see table below).  A parent/guardian will need to show ID to the teacher at the gate and sign the register before taking the student.

·         We cannot risk the community, so it is impossible for us to allow students to leave the grounds by themselves and to travel home via public transport.

·         Year11/12 students who have their own car will be permitted to drive themselves home, no other passengers will be permitted.

·         Parents unable to pick up their child in this circumstance should contact the office to discuss alternative arrangements.

** For those at Gate 4, drive in and around the carpark loop, pick up the student and drive out again.

·         Once closed, the school will be “deep-cleaned” and those people traced as “close-contacts” of the infected person will be contacted by NSW Health and advised to be tested for COVID-19 and to remain in isolation until clear. The rest of the school will be advised to return once the school is cleaned and ready to open. The date we resume will be posted on our website, Facebook page and, again, we will SMS and email parents.

·         The school would normally be opened again in a day or two after the closure.

·         I hope that we never need to activate these plans but in case we do, we will do so in an orderly and calm manner – looking after each other as we go.

Please keep this plan ready as a reference in case we need to activate it.

M.Struyve – 29 May 2020