Tēnā koutou e te Whānau

We've had an action-packed last couple of weeks at Halswell School Te Kura o Te Tauawa. Some of the highlights have been the Year 5-8 Cross Country followed by the Zone competition, Cycle Safety for Year 6, Star Dome for Years 0-2 and Life Education Trust for our Years 7&8 students.

Covid-19 Update

I'm pleased to inform you that the number of Covid-19 cases at our school has continued to trend down. At the time of writing, we only have 17 students in isolation, 5 of whom have positive cases. As a consequence of this, we will be further reducing our mitigation controls from next week to allow some mixing across Learning Centres. This will mean that performance groups like Choir and Concert Band will start back up and our Student Council will be able to meet face to face. We will also allow parent volunteers to help out with outdoor events and specific programmes in the hall like PMP.

We will continue to monitor the situation carefully as the Ministry of Health modelling suggests that we could be in for a second peak at some point in the coming weeks. We are also conscious that flu season is almost upon us and this could have a significant impact on our staff and students. For this reason, we will maintain the current requirements around wearing masks and staggered break times. We also ask that parents remain vigilant about their children exhibiting any flu or cold-like symptoms. If this is the case, please ensure that they stay at home. These measures will go a long way towards keeping our children and staff safe and healthy moving forward.

Have a lovely long weekend.

Ngā mihi nui

Stuart cameron

Principal