24 Hour School Closure

Written By Anke Stevens

Dear parents, carers and staff
Our school has been advised a confirmed COVID-19 case attended our New Holland Drive Campus on Friday 5 November.
Our New Holland Drive Campus will be closed on Wednesday 10th November as a precaution to identify students or staff who were on site on Friday 5th November and may have had close contact with the case.
Once that review is complete, we will let you know if you or your child has been identified as a primary close contact (PCC).
If we do not contact you by Wednesday 10 November to say that you or your child has been identified as a primary close contact, you or your child should return to school on Thursday 11 November.
Information for students and staff identified as PCCs
If you are contacted and advised that you or your child is a potential PCC, it is advised that the potential PCC get a COVID PCR test and that the potential PCC limit their movements outside of the home.
This means that, until you hear further from me or the Department of Health or a Local Public Health Unit (DH/LPHU), you are advised to only leave home for brief periods for necessary activities, such as:

  • caregiving to family members when no alternative is available

  • necessary medical appointments where no alternative is available (such as telehealth).

DH/LPHU will then contact PCCs directly to interview them and advise if there are any changes to their PCC status. These calls or text messages can come from private or unknown numbers. Please answer these calls or follow text message advice if you receive a call or text message. If confirmed, DH/LPHU will send an SMS to the PCCs advising them of their quarantine, testing and release dates (this may take some days).
PCCs must quarantine at home and can end their quarantine period as follows:

  • For 14 days of quarantine you must quarantine at home until you receive a negative result from a PCR test taken no sooner than day 13 of your quarantine period.

  • For 7 days of quarantine you must quarantine at home until you receive a negative result from a PCR test taken on day six of your quarantine period. Your quarantine ends at 11:59pm on day seven.

DH will not contact you to end your quarantine; your negative test result is proof that you have completed your quarantine period.
The rest of your family does not need to stay at home at this stage.
If you or anyone in your family develops even the mildest of symptoms, please get tested.
If you have questions about what this means for our school, please call the Department of Education and Training COVID-19 hotline on 1800 338 663, available 8:30am to 5pm Monday through Friday, and 10am to 3pm Saturday and Sunday.
If you are concerned you have COVID-19 you can call the DH COVID-19 hotline on 1800 675 398, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
For school information in languages other than English, call TIS National on 131 450. Please ask them to call the DET COVID-19 hotline on 1800 338 663 and they will help interpret. For health advice in languages other than English, visit https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/translated-information-about-coronavirus-covid-19

Kind regards
Jennifer Hamilton
Principal


Anke Stevens
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