St Gabriel's Primary School Traralgon
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Rangeview Drive
Traralgon VIC 3844
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Email: principal@stgtraralgon.catholic.edu.au
Phone: 03 5174 5515

Updated COVID Information

UPDATED COVID INFORMATION

As mentioned in our previous newsletter, St Gabriel's recently had a visit from Infection Control Nurses that are part of the IPCON (Infection Prevention and Control Outreach Nursing) team.  The team is visiting various schools, selected randomly, across the State to ensure COVID-19 guidelines are being followed.

After working our way through a comprehensive checklist and completing a walk through of the school, the IPCON team were very happy with St Gabriel's preparedness and management of COVID-19.  They did point out that the following items are important for families to remember:
  • Whilst there are no cases of COVID-19 in our area at the moment, we must still remain vigilant regarding Social Distancing, Hand Hygiene and Density Quota's.
  • The front reception area should have no more than 4 adults in the area at any one time, if there are already 4 people in reception, please wait outside until someone leaves.
  • Face masks, whilst not mandatory to wear at the moment, must be "kept handy".  Posters at entries to the school outline this.

Parents are permitted and welcome on the school grounds, keeping socially distant from others, however, only staff and students are permitted in the classrooms.  If for example you are attending parent teacher conferences or such then you must sign in and it would be held after school/classroom hours or in a separate office.  Students and staff who are ill should not attend school until symptoms have passed.  This is required for any illness.  Apart from that there should be no reason for parents to enter the classrooms at this stage.

The overall message from the IPCON nurses was that it is very easy for us to become complacent considering the limited exposure we currently have to COVID-19, however, we must still continue to practice all measures that have been put in place to ensure we remain compliant with Government, DOSCEL and school directives, but more importantly to keep everyone at St Gabriel's safe.