COVID-19 Update

During lockdown, all HVGS students will engage in remote learning. Please contact the School for information.

Our School will remain open for children of essential workers only. Parents and carers must keep children at home unless they need to be at School. The only reason a child can be at School is in the case where no parent or carer is at home (due to essential work outside the home) to supervise them.

If you require your child to attend the School campus and be supervised due to your essential work requirement/conditions, please complete this online form: Essential Workers Form

TeamKids is operational for enrolled vulnerable HVGS students or children of essential workers only. Please contact TeamKids directly for specific information.

• Any person with COVID-like symptoms is excluded from being on School grounds until they produce a negative COVID test, or have specific clearance from their GP.
• Students or staff who have been identified as close contacts of a person diagnosed with COVID-19 during their infectious period must follow NSW Health advice. Families should monitor the NSW Health information to check locations of positive cases.
• Families must notify the school immediately if any member of their household comes in contact with, or is diagnosed with COVID-19.
• From time to time, a family may have legal cause to have increased contact with people from a location of concern, or to visit such locations themselves. The School will work with families in these situations and may require extra precautions to be taken, such as requiring a negative COVID test result prior to returning to School.

All co-curricular activities, excursions and after school tutoring activities are cancelled until further notice.

Assuming there is no early return for schools in the Hunter, the NSW government has advised schools that students will return to face-to-face learning with NSW Health-approved COVID-safe settings on school sites in the following order:

• from 25 October – Kindergarten and Year 1.
• from 1 November – Years 2, 6 and 11
• from 8 November – Years 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10.
• Year 12 will continue their current study plan unless the conditions of face-to-face learning change. They will return to campus on 25 October.