Murrumbidgee Regional High School

Excellence and Innovation

Telephone02 6966 9600

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

Update: Returning to School

Returning To School

An update from Mr David Crelley, our Executive Principal:

On Monday 13 September 2021, our school will return to Level 3 restrictions with all students and all staff on site.

All students:

  • Mask wearing requirements. While on school sites, both indoors and outdoors, masks or face coverings are mandatory for all staff and all students in Year 7 and above. Exceptions include those eating, drinking or exercising (including at lunch, recess, PDHPE and sport). Exemptions from wearing masks are available for some students. Please contact us on 6969 9300 if you would like to discuss an exemption for your child.
  • Activities such as singing, chanting, choirs, bands and school performances are not permitted.
  • School canteens can operate with conditions.
  • No assemblies – Outdoor year meetings will replace the school assemblies on Monday. Year Advisors to advise location.
  • No excursions.
  • No community use (except early childhood services and OOSH services).
  • No SRE/SEE (externally provided religion and ethics classes).

Years 7, 8, 9 and 10:

  • A full return to timetabled lessons from Monday 13 September 2021.
  • Mask Wearing is mandatory for all students and staff, indoors and outdoors. We strongly encourage all students to bring their own masks to wear at school.
  • Work is provided as programmed pre-lockdown.
  • Assessment to continue as scheduled with some modification as required.
  • Alternative arrangements for Year 9 and 10 sport to reduce mingling between year groups.
  • To reduce the mingling of students indoors, the Library will only be available to ONE year group each day. Monday – Year 7; Tuesday – Year 8; Wednesday – Year 9; and Thursday – Year 10.  Senior students can continue to work in their designated areas of the school.

Year 11:

  • A full return to timetabled lessons from Monday 13 September 2021.
  • Mask Wearing is mandatory for all students and staff, indoors and outdoors. We strongly encourage all students to bring their own masks to wear at school.
  • Monday to Thursday – All timetabled lessons will proceed to enable students to work on their alternate tasks ONLY.
  • ANY alternate task can be worked on in ANY subject. Teachers can provide support and answer questions about the task from students.
  • ALL tasks remain due for submission before 3:20 pm on Thursday 16 September 2021.
  • Classes as normal on Friday 17 September 2021.
  • TAFE courses will remain online for the remainder of the term.
  • To reduce the mingling of students indoors, the Library will only be available to ONE year group each day. Monday – Year 7; Tuesday – Year 8; Wednesday – Year 9; and Thursday – Year 10.  Senior students can continue to work in their designated areas of the school.

Year 12:

  • A full return to timetabled lessons from Monday 13 September 2021.
  • Mask Wearing is mandatory for all students and staff, indoors and outdoors. We strongly encourage all students to bring their own masks to wear at school.
  • The last official day of school for Year 12 will be Friday 17 September 2021.
  • To reduce the mingling of students indoors, the Library will only be available to ONE year group each day. Monday – Year 7; Tuesday – Year 8; Wednesday – Year 9; and Thursday – Year 10.  Senior students can continue to work in their designated areas of the school.
  • Students will have the option to continue to attend their scheduled Year 12 classes until Friday 22 October 2021 (End of Week 3 Term 4). Timetabled classes will run with students able to receive support from their teachers in their individual subjects.
  • From Monday 25 October 2021 until Monday 8 November 2021, students are not to come to school but may access virtual support from their teachers.
  • Higher School Certificate timetables for all students were officially released today. Students should log in and check their NESA accounts to view their individualised timetables.
  • HSC Examinations begin on Tuesday 9 November 2021. More information will be released on venues and procedures as we get closer to this time.
  • HSC Examinations end on Friday 3 December 2021.
  • We will work with Year Advisors to organise end-of-year events for our Year 12 students to the best of our ability, guided by the Health Advice and social limitations at the time.

We are looking forward to seeing all of our students and staff back on-site next week.