School Update April 3rd 2020

Dear Parents and Caregivers

I hope you are all doing well and despite the circumstances that kids are enjoying their first week of the school holidays.

CURRENT SCHOOL UPDATE:

The Ministry of Education is in the process of working with us to ensure all our children have access to learning. They have sent out the following statement.

“To help make sure your child can keep up with their learning at home, the Ministry has asked for up-to-date information on your child’s year level, lockdown physical address and the resources your child will need. The Ministry will use the information to identify where devices and hard copy learning resources may be needed to be delivered. We won’t be able to meet everyone’s needs all at once but we will continue to provide as much as we can, as it is available”

As a result, I need to ensure that we have all the correct information to hand. Therefore we need to collect information from families where the following statements apply

# We DO NOT have access to a device for our child/ren to start learning on Wednesday 15th April.

# We still have LIMITED ACCESS to the internet from our provider which could impact on our children accessing digital learning.

# We require paper form learning to be delivered and we are lock-down at a DIFFERENT ADDRESS.

If any of the above statements apply to your family and you have not contacted the school previously, please let Miss Patrice O’Connor know principal@greytown.school.nz by Monday 6th April at 12pm so she can work with the Ministry to assist you.

If there are any other reasons why your child/ren may have trouble accessing learning starting on Wednesday 15th April please let us know too and we will do our best to assist you.

Thanks

Miss Patrice O’Connor