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Public School

Anne van Dartel

Principal

The message from the Department of Education is to encourage parents to keep their children at home. The school will be open. The decision to send your child to school is entirely yours.

Absentee does not count at this time.

Work has been prepared and sent home with students who were present at school on Monday. This same work will be available for collection at the front office today. If you ring ahead we will have it ready. Books from the library can also be borrowed, please call ahead and we will have the book ready for collection from the front office.

Students attending school will be working through the same body of work that has been sent home as instructed by the Dept of Education.

Teachers will be on site and contacting families every few days to check in. More work will be available by the end of the week. Our Facebook page will have additional daily activities and live interactions for students to use and watch. No one misses out.

Canteen News Choices of 3 meal deals only

1. nuggets 2. wrap

3. sandwich All with popper & fruit

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Good news corner

It’s easy to get swept up in the panic and fear being fuelled by the coronavirus outbreak, but there’s a wave of good deeds and positivity that’s keeping the sickness at bay. In Italy, one of the key affected countries, people are singing from their balconies to lift the spirits of those around them.

In one Melbourne neighbourhood, residents have begun waking to gifts left on their doorsteps. As she and her family were staring down the barrel of potential self-isolation, Alice Mitchell was turning away from the anxiety-inducing media saturation and towards more traditional forms of entertainment.

“I noticed I was gravitating toward board games and the like, to keep my mind occupied from the media overexposure,” Ms Mitchell told The New Daily.

“I figured most others could benefit from a similar thing.

“So I bought a bunch of puzzles which were inexpensive but might mean the difference between sanity or not.”

Together with her two sons, they’ve begun leaving puzzles on their neighbours’ doorsteps at night – with a little note about “keeping sane during lockdown”.

“When the climate seems to be every man for himself out in public, I just wanted to give a gesture to my immediate neighbourhood so that they know we’ve got their backs if they need it,” Ms Mitchell said.

The reaction has been heart warming.

Neighbours have come a-knocking to chat and say thanks, with a renewed sense of optimism.

Zephyr, 3, proudly holds up the thank you note a neighbour left on their porch.