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I would like to publicly acknowledge our staff and students who have remained focused on their teaching and learning.
Our school is ready for any circumstance, whether that include a school closure or the continuation of teaching and learning. At present we are treating our lessons and assessment as business as usual. Should we receive a direction from the Government to close, we are more than prepared to continue quality teaching and learning for all students.
I have included the official Ministerial Statement from our Premier.
Information regarding student attendance at school
Should I keep my healthy child home from school/childcare?
If your child is returning from any international travel, you should isolate them for 14 days from when they arrive in Australia.
If they come into close contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19 coronavirus (including close contact in the 24 hours before the person became unwell) they should be isolated for 14 days from the last contact.
If your child develops symptoms, immediately call your doctor for advice. The doctor will contact your public health authority.
If a public health authority has informed you your child is a close contact of a confirmed case of COVID-19 coronavirus — even if they don’t have symptoms — they cannot attend school or childcare until the authority tells you it is safe for them to do so.
The risk to children and babies, and the role children play in transmitting COVID-19, is not yet clear. However, the rate of confirmed coronavirus cases among children compared to the broader population has so far been low.
The Australian Government Department of Health has more information for parents, schools and early childhood centres.
Should I keep my child home from school/childcare if they have recently returned from overseas?
If your child is returning from any international travel, you should isolate them for 14 days from when they arrive in Australia. If your child develops symptoms, immediately call your doctor for advice. The doctor will contact your public health authority.
If a public health authority has informed you your child is a close contact of a confirmed case of COVID-19 coronavirus — even if they don’t have symptoms — they cannot attend school or childcare until the authority tells you it is safe for them to do so.
Should I keep my child home from school/childcare if they are a close contact of a person with confirmed COVID-19?
If you have been informed by public health authorities that your child is a close contact of a confirmed case of COVID-19, even if they don’t have symptoms, they cannot attend school or childcare until public health authorities inform you that it is safe for them to do so. (This includes close contact in the 24 hours before symptoms appeared in the infected person.)
Source: https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/coronavirus-covid-19-childcare-school-exclusions-faqs
(This is a Government funded website.)
School Sports
Yesterday our school received a directive from the Department of Education stating that a decision has been made to cancel, until further notice, the representative school sport program which includes district, regional, state, national, interstate and international competitions and that this decision is effective as of today. The stoppage also applies for interschool/ intraschool sports. This does not stop our school training and programs that support the development of our sporting students.
Positive School News
We continue to be proud of the way that the vast majority of our students interact with each other and treat each other with respect and kindness. We promote this on a daily basis and also when we speak with our students at assemblies and in class groups. We believe that our diversity is our strength and that together we can achieve so much. Thank you for continuing to promote and model this kindness and respect at home.
It has been wonderful to observe the progress of a number of the Foxwell State Secondary College teams over the past weeks. Whether it be rehearsing for the Drama Festival or the Debating Competition, or training for the Esports or Futsal tournament, our students are demonstrating perseverance, respect and responsibility and most importantly, teamwork. Keep up the great work. Remember if your child hasn’t yet signed up for a Term 1 or 2 Extra curricular program, please encourage them to do so. These programs add so much to their Foxwell and schooling experience.
A reminder to families that invoices for the Student Resource Scheme have been emailed and for families who have elected to pay in full, the due date was the 7th of February 2020. For families that elected to pay via term installments, the first installment of $120.00 was due on the 7th of February 2020. These payments are now overdue.
Invoices have been emailed for extra-curricular activities. Payments are now due for e-Sports, Drama Festival and Art Club.
Invoices have been emailed for Excellence Programs. The due date for these invoices is 30th of April 2020.
For families who elected to pay via CentrePay, an authority to deduct form is now available from Administration to begin your deductions. Please contact Administration to complete.
The finance window is open on Fridays, from 8.30am-10.00am. The payment window accepts correct cash payments and EFTPOS. We are unable to process credit card payments over the phone, you will be directed to the secure payments phone number for this option. Our preferred payment option is BPOINT. You can access the BPOINT option by clicking on the link in the invoice you received via email.
If you would like a copy of your invoice or would like to discuss your payment options, please contact Kimberley Knowles - Business Manager - finance@foxwellssc.eq.edu.au or alternatively you can phone the School on 07 5555 3333.
As our response to COVID-19 is all about containment, a decision has been made to cancel the following extra-curricular activities:
- the representative school sport program which includes district, regional, state, national, interstate and international competitions
- Queensland School Sport team participation in any national, interstate or international events organised across Australia or internationally
- Rivers District Boys Basketball Gala Day
- Rivers District Girls Soccer Gala Day
- Creative Voices & G Stem excursion to HOTA for Backbone by Gravity
The following extra-curricular activities have been postponed, with further scheduling information still to be provided:
- Gold Coast Debating
- Gold Coast Secondary Schools Drama Festival Competition
- NRL 9’s Competition
- FUSE Cup
- School Basketball training
- School Netball training
- School AFL training
- NRL 9’s training
These decisions have been very difficult and not taken lightly by the organising bodies. These decisions are about supporting the effort to contain and slow the spread of COVID-19, and have also become operationally necessary based on participants, available staff, coaches, managers, umpires, referees and venues.
The following school based extra-curricular activities will continue as per their normal school schedule and in accordance with directives from Queensland Health in relation to heightened vigilance of health, hygiene and social distancing practices.
- Art Club
- Drama Festival Rehearsals
- Genius Bar Crew
- E-Sport
- Dance Troupe auditions
Instrumental Music lessons and rehearsals will continue as per scheduled.
At Foxwell State Secondary College we take great pride in our ability to leverage digital pedagogies, allowing for excellence in educational outcomes.
Our school’s pedagogy and curriculum is specifically designed with iPad placed as the central learning tool for both students and teachers. Teachers use them as an environment to facilitate engagement in the learning process.
We have a number of digital learning platforms that are already established as normal school practice for both teachers and students. The following information will outline for parents and carers the purpose of each of these platforms.
Parents and carers can assist with digital learning by ensuring that students have downloaded on to their devices each of these apps and that they know and have recorded their username and password.
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Seesaw At Foxwell State Secondary College, Seesaw is our main platform for digital pedagogy. Seesaw is a powerful classroom app that allows for meaningful student engagement. It allows teachers, students and parents/carers the ability to interact in an online environment where teachers can deliver curriculum activities for students and provide feedback on work completed. Parents/carers are able to view this work and also interact with their students electronically via the platform.
Students are members of Seesaw classrooms for the following subjects:
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SharePoint
At Foxwell State Secondary College, we use the SharePoint application to communicate daily notices and share digital resources with students. It is an expectation that students check SharePoint at least once per day to read daily notices and keep up to date with school wide communications.
SharePoint can be accessed as a webpage, or as a downloaded application on both student and parent/carer devices. Once downloaded a student’s school email address is required for log in.
Education Perfect
Education Perfect is a rich library of interactive, motivating and engaging activities directly aligned with the Australian Curriculum. Content in Education Perfect is carefully scaffolded to allow all students to experience success, while providing for higher order thinking and independent learning.
In Education Perfect, teachers curate and customise learning activities to meet the needs of every learner in their classroom. Student responses to activities provide teachers detailed insights in to student progress, allowing them to make informed decisions to tailor their student’s learning need.
Activities in Education Perfect are known as ‘assessments'. These activities do not contribute to summative report card results, rather are tools for assessing student progress to allow teachers to support the individual needs of each student.
ClickView
Through ClickView, teachers can curate educational videos from around the world and also produce their own video material. Teachers can create time coded video content, where students are prompted to complete activities at different intervals throughout the stream.
NotabilityNotability transforms iPads in to digital notebooks for students where they can record their learning in both typed and handwritten form. Notability provides students the opportunity to:
- Type, write and sketch on digital paper
- Type, write and sketch on imported documents such as worksheets
- Add images and shapes
- Organise learning into content or subjects areas
At Foxwell State Secondary College we believe that parents and carers should have the tools to manage their children’s device usage.
We also believe that parents and carers are partners in learning, and that measures put in place for screen time in the home can assist in managing appropriate device usage and screen time both before, during and after the school day.
With Screen Time and Family Sharing, Apple provides parents and carers the tools to block and limit specific apps and features on their child’s device. These tools also allow parents and carers to access real-time reports on how much time their child is spending on their iPad, setting limits for usage of the device or specific applications.
We ask for the support of our parent community by requesting that when parent controls are set up, consideration is given to the following applications and their restriction during the school day:
- Messages
- Facetime
- Social Media
- Specific Games
- Specific Websites
The following video outlines how to set up parental controls for your child’s iPad (and other Apple Devices).
We have become aware of a number of students who have social media accounts. Most social media platforms have strict terms and conditions in relation to minimum age, requiring in most instances for children to be at least 13 years of age. Creating accounts with false information is a violation of terms and conditions. This includes accounts registered on behalf of someone under 13. We recommend that parents conduct due diligence before allowing their child to sign up for a social media platform, including being aware of terms, conditions and privacy policies. We also suggest that regular vigilance is conducted to ensure student e-safety.
Further information is available from the E-Safety Commsioner at https://www.esafety.gov.au/.