Information about working in or operating early childhood education services including outside school hours care. Plus, information for parents including how to choose a service and supporting your child for their transition to school.
Information about NSW public education, including the school finder, high school enrolment, school safety, selective schools and opportunity classes.
NSW Department of Education's information on curriculum taught in NSW schools, Aboriginal education and communities & personalised support.
The Wellbeing Framework supports schools to create learning environments that enable students to be healthy, happy, engaged and successful.
Information for parents and carers including learning and wellbeing resources, advice, study skills, a quick guide glossary, homework help, tools for learning remotely, support for additional needs and more.
The NSW Department of Education is committed to employing the best and brightest teachers who can teach and make a difference in NSW public schools.
Information about working in or operating early childhood education services including outside school hours care. Plus, information for parents including how to choose a service and supporting your child for their transition to school.
Information about NSW public education, including the school finder, high school enrolment, school safety, selective schools and opportunity classes.
NSW Department of Education's information on curriculum taught in NSW schools, Aboriginal education and communities & personalised support.
The Wellbeing Framework supports schools to create learning environments that enable students to be healthy, happy, engaged and successful.
Information for parents and carers including learning and wellbeing resources, advice, study skills, a quick guide glossary, homework help, tools for learning remotely, support for additional needs and more.
The NSW Department of Education is committed to employing the best and brightest teachers who can teach and make a difference in NSW public schools.
NSW public schools will adopt a range of COVID-smart measures to keep students and staff safe in Term 3 and beyond.
NSW public schools will begin the new term under robust COVID-smart rules to make sure staff and students are best protected in the classroom.
NSW Education Secretary Georgina Harrisson said the additional measures followed a comprehensive and independent risk assessment, consideration of school operations, as well as feedback from staff, unions and other stakeholders.
“The settings are similar to last term, but we are being extra vigilant to get the term off to the best start – supporting our staff and students with extra supplies of rapid antigen tests and masks, and encouraging them to stay at home if unwell,” said Ms Harrisson.
As part of a “four-week blitz” at the start of Term 3 some measures will be scaled up from today to ensure a strong start to the term:
· Providing an increased supply of free RAT kits for symptomatic testing of staff and students, which will be sent home with students this week. More than 9 million RAT kits will be distributed during the first 3 weeks of Term 3 to replenish existing stocks in schools.
Individual schools will also continue to be directed to temporarily adopt additional “circuit breaker” measures where there are increasing case numbers across multiple cohorts week-on-week and/or increasing case numbers in staff.
These additional measures may include:
Following consultation with staff, unions and other key stakeholders, the Department of Education will be removing the mandatory vaccination requirement for all staff, except for those working in or with Schools for Specific Purpose (SSPs), where students may be at greater risk of serious illness if they contract COVID-19.
“While vaccination against COVID-19 will no longer be mandated for most employees, the department strongly encourages staff to continue to keep their vaccination status up-to-date” Ms Harrisson said.
“The department will continue to provide vaccination leave to staff so they can receive a COVID-19 vaccination, including a booster shot.”
Over the coming weeks, the Department will manage the return of teachers who have been on alternate duties, or who wish to return to teaching if they were dismissed or resigned under the vaccine mandate.
Ms Harrisson said the NSW Government was taking a common-sense approach to winter school settings after last term saw staff absences up 30 per cent due to COVID-19 and flu illnesses.
For more infomaton on the COVID-smart measures visit the NSW Department of Education website
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