Thank you to our community for making the establishment of our Alert Level 3 Attendance Register as easy as possible.

Kia ora Koutou,

We have heard from or made contact with every parent/caregiver or whānau member in our school. With 500 students on our school roll that is a huge effort to get completed in the short space of time we have had this week. This couldn’t be done without your support.

Today we are emailing out letters to families that require supervision of their children as NZ shifts into Alert Level 3 conditions from midnight Monday 27 April. We are communicating not only our support for these families and their children who have no other safe supervision options but also the extremely tight set of requirements that the school, staff, students and their families are expected to adhere to. 

The Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education and WorkSafe NZ have released the protocols for managing the health and safety of all students and staff who attend Casebrook as of next Wednesday. You will find a detailed overview of these protocols attached to this communication and published on our website over the coming days.

All students who arrive at Casebrook next week will continue with their ‘Learning from Home’ curriculum so will be doing no different work than those at home. In fact, in many ways, we are more limited in what we can do with students. 

Staff are being rostered to an ‘at-school’ bubble and will continue to work with their classes remotely whilst supervising. Staff will need to change things slightly on their supervision days. They may decide on such days that video calls and pastoral calls are not possible - they will communicate their schedules with you prior to the start of the new school week, no doubt.

The level of planning required to ensure the safest possible environment for staff and students means that any change in your own Level 3 employment or care situations that will require your child attends school must be communicated to school with as much time as possible (24 hours at least). This will enable us to grow or develop new ‘at-school’ bubbles and supervision as required.

Next week looks like this:

• Monday 27th: Alert Level 4 will change to Level 3 at midnight
• Tuesday 28th April: Casebrook Teacher Only Day - work will be provided for students but video and pastoral calls will not take place on this day
• Wednesday 29th April: Casebrook re-opens under Level 3 protocols

Finally, Saturday is ANZAC day. We hope your bubble finds a unique opportunity to commentate it tomorrow and on the weekend. Our Week 3&4 wider curriculum board has a number of ways students can do something at home to learn more about the ANZACs and reflect on the service given and sacrifices made. It is attached to this communication. Also, the 'Casebrook’s Got Lockdown Talent Show' entries close on Monday 27th April. There have been some great and very original entries in from students and their whānau so far. Nothing is off the table!

Thanks for your support.

Kia Kaha,

The Casebrook Leadership Team