Principal's Notes
COVID Safety at St Benedict’s
Risk of COVID-19
Through the COMPASS Parent Portal our school will advise you daily when members of our school community test positive to COVID-19. We will inform you of these positive numbers for each cohort (stage group) of students and also staff who may have worked with these groups.
While testing and isolation is no longer mandatory for exposures in school settings, ACT Health has provided advice on testing and isolation recommendations for the community following exposure to COVID-19. If notified about potential exposure, you should consider this information when making decisions for your child and family.
You are reminded that students and staff cannot attend school if they are showing any symptoms of COVID-19. These include fever, cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, runny nose, loss of smell/taste, muscle/joint pains, diarrhoea, nausea/vomiting, extreme tiredness, unexplained chest pain or conjunctivitis (eye infection).
If symptoms occur at any time, students should not attend school and should undertake a Rapid Antigen Test. If the RAT test is positive, you/your child should isolate as someone who has tested positive to COVID-19. If you cannot access a RAT test, you can attend a PCR (nose and throat swab) testing clinic.
Advice and further resources are available on the ACT Health website, including COVID-19 guidelines and fact sheets for People who tested positive or were exposed to COVID-19. Additional resources are also available on the ACT Government website.
The safety and wellbeing of our students and staff are of utmost importance at all times. As such, we will continue to ensure that all necessary health advice is closely followed.
Communication – Compass Parent Portal
Compass is the preferred form of communication. If you are not receiving regular communication, please check the Compass Parent Portal to ensure we have the correct contact details.
The Compass Parent Portal is an essential online portal that allows you to communicate with your child’s school and access up-to-date information. It is also essential in the notification of student absence. Please ensure ALL absences are sent via the Compass Portal. Please also note that St Benedict’s will not be using SMS and Compass Pay as we already have QKr and other established methods for the payment of school fees and camps etc.
Update Parent Information
We ask all parents/carers to ensure we have up to date contact details and family information (address, email, mobile phone number etc). This can be done directly through the COMPASS app when logging in. You can also navigate to the Tools menu (the cog icon, next to the parent name in the top right corner) and select 'Update my Details' from the drop-down menu. When a parent completes this online form, this will trigger an email to the school, so that this contact information can be updated in MAZE.
Below are some quick links for parents:
Logging into the Parent Portal