UPPER SCHOOL

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Hello Girls! We hope you had a relaxing and wonderful term break! We are excited to welcome you back to Term 3!

What will be the same?

Your timetable and lesson length will be a normal five-period day with recess and lunch breaks. Connect will run each day from 1.35pm to 2.10pm. You will be required to wear your full winter school uniform with pride! Please ensure your uniform is the right length, no jewellery, no nail polish on your nails, no fake nails and no make up. Your allocated area for recess and lunch is the Amphitheatre or Science block (Year 9) or the Jacaranda Courtyard (Year 10). This applies before school if you arrive before 8.15am. You are not permitted to spend lunch and recess inside classrooms. In the event of wet weather, Year 9 will go to the Science Lecture Theatre and Year 10 will go to C13-16, JV and RV rooms, excluding RV4 and RV5. The regular Pymble bus services will be running as per normal. Assemblies and Chapel will continue to run online via Microsoft Teams.

What will be different?

When using public transport and moving about the school, be mindful to avoid touching railings and other high-touch areas/fittings. We ask that you avoid being dropped at school to help manage congestion. Please be dropped at Grandview Street at the station and walk from the station wherever possible. Don't gather at the station in groups – please make your way directly to school. Be mindful to avoid touching railings and other high-touch areas/fittings. There will be sanitiser stations at the various entrance points to the College and in classrooms and offices. Please use them.

Information for girls from the Head of Upper School

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Access to your lockers is optional. Leave valuables in your locker for safe keeping. You are permitted to carry your bags around throughout the day. Bring a water bottle as bubblers will be closed. Water filling stations will be available. You are asked to strictly adhere to social distancing. This will be challenging, particularly for the huggers among us, but it is one of the conditions of a safe return to campus. Wherever possible, you are asked to maintain safe distance from anyone else on campus. Desks will be spaced in rooms, please don't move them. Please also remember the importance of maintaining social distance with staff members. If you see a cleaner, say thank you! They are working tirelessly to keep us all safe. If you have an appointment, you will sign out at the Office as usual, but your parents will need to collect you from Flagpole. Please remember that if you are unwell you need to stay at home in order to help protect everyone.

Illness during Term 3

If you are feeling unwell and cannot attend school please follow normal catch-up procedures with your class teacher(s). Looking forward to welcoming you all back and catching up very soon. Take care.

Mrs Melissa Boyd HEAD OF UPPER SCHOOL

PREPARATORY SCHOOL

TERM 3 2020 Senior School