Welcome to 2021

Dear Parents, Carers and Students,

Welcome to 2021. As the summer moves into the final month, we welcome students back to Ballina Coast High School. A huge thank you to John Parker for his support Term 3 & 4, 2020. Our numbers continue to grow and reflect the outstanding commitment and work being done by all our staff. The 8 demountables are in place and will support the additional student enrolments.

Students returning to school

Years 7, 11 and 12 return Friday 29 January 2021

Years 8, 9 and 10 return Monday 1 February 2021

Staff

Our Deputy Principals are already involved in enrolments. In 2021 their responsibilities are for the following cohorts;

Jesse Coates-Year 7,9, 11

Aaron McDonald -Year 8, 10, 12

We have a new Head Teacher position that will be advertised this term - Head Teacher Well Being.

Kirrily Myers will be relieving in this HT Well Being position while Jake Parmenter will relieve as HT HSIE. Tess Gould will be relieving as HT English and John Moore will be relieving as HT PD/H/PE.

We will also be advertising for a Café worker. This is a temporary position for the year and we are after a person who is happy to work school hours, enjoys preparing food, serving young people and loves school holidays. If you know of anyone, please tell them to keep an eye out for our Facebook ad.

BCHS

BCHS has a number of exciting opportunities in Term 1 and we hope all students take the many opportunities on offer.

·         Swimming Carnival

·         FNC/NC Sport events where ever safe to do so

·         Targeted Sports Program

·         Peer Leadership

·         Captains leading assemblies

·         BEST Start

·         MADD auditions

·         Cross Curricula days

Covid-19 Update

https://education.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/advice-for-families#COVID0

Students are reminded to remain vigilant and practise physical distancing and hygiene measures to ensure the safety and wellbeing of students and staff are maintained.

Students should be attending school unless:

·         They have a medical certificate

·         Are currently unwell

·         Been in contact with someone diagnosed with Covid-19

All schools will be vigilant when implementing infection control, physical distancing and personal hygiene protocols to protect the health and safety of students and staff. Schools will promote the need to follow good hygiene practices such as:

·         Regularly washing hands.

·         Avoiding sharing drinks or food.

·         Coughing or sneezing into your elbow, or a tissue which should be discarded immediately.

Students will be supported to learn from home in the following circumstances:

·         If they are required to self-isolate due to being a close contact of a positive or suspected COVID-19 case.

·         Where the school is directed under public health advice to only remain operational for children of essential workers if an outbreak of COVID-19 was to arise in the local area.

·         School bubblers have been turned on but we urge students to bring their own water bottle.

Friends of BCHS

Meet Monday nights at 6.00pm in Week 3 and Week 8 of Term 1(February 8 and March 15). The meetings are held at the school and generally go no longer than one hour. We look forward to new and continuing support from our parents and carers.

Yondr

BCHS is a Yondr school and will be supporting our students to act responsibly with phone use. Students will be allocated pouches on their first day back. Further information will forwarded to all families.

Looking forward to growing older and wiser with everyone in 2021!

Kind Regards,

Janeen Silcock