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“To stand at our window, wrapped in the half-dark and watch the day disappear… is a moment of hygge.”

Louisa Thomsen Brits.

A few years ago, I came across a copy of Louisa Thomsen Brits’ “The Book of Hygge: the Danish Art of Contentment, Comfort and Connection”.  This is a beautiful little book, filled with simple, life-affirming wisdom.  At its heart is the experience of winter – or rather, the experience of togetherness, of connectedness, and of focusing on the here and now, that the long cold nights of a Scandinavian winter forces on the Danes.

Winter is naturally a season for slowing down.  As the growth of plants slows, so the pace of nature slows.  As humans, especially post-industrial (and now post-internet) humans, we can miss that.  For us, technology means we can ignore the rhythms of the seasons – we can work when it is dark, we can “be productive” even when the weather is inclement.

And yet, what the Danes have realised, and embraced as a nation-defining philosophy – is that we are poorer, less healthy, if we do not embrace those rhythms.  This is why we mark the seasons with our festivals, and we are thrilled to be marking this season with our Winter Festival in Bangalow.  Students and staff have been busy preparing for this special night, making lanterns and learning winter songs, and we are all looking forward to this event.

Another Steiner School (Blue Mountains) also sees Winter Festivals as a time for reflection. They write:

 “At its core [Winter] festival is a celebration of light. Many people are familiar with physical light representing the light of consciousness or the light of love in the world. Here, we offer everyone the chance to enter into a reflective space, bathed in beautiful sounds and sights, to focus at this time of relative darkness in outer nature on our own inner light.”

You will have heard, and will see in this newsletter, that this year we are offering our whole community an opportunity to reflect.  Through our Strategic Survey we are asking you to reflect and let us know what you value about the school, and what you want to see grow in the future of the school – and I encourage all of our community to fill in the survey.

And, as we head towards our winter festival and the holidays, I also encourage all of us to slow down a little, and see winter as our time to pay “attention to the concerns of the human spirit,” and turn “towards a manner of living that prioritises simple pleasure, friendship and connection above consumption” (Brits).

I wish everyone in our community a wonderful, joy-filled season.

 Paddy

I know that if odor were visible, as color is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.” 

 Robert Bridges, Poet.

Late Summer – what a wonderful time of the year.  I do hope you have been able to get outdoors and connect with nature, whether through a day at the beach or a lovely hike, or any of the many other ways we can enjoy the blessings of this beautiful season.

At school, the start of 2022 has been wonderful and the atmosphere has been incredibly positive and happy.  In feedback from our Teachers, Guardians, Students and Parents in recent weeks, we have heard anecdotes that have warmed our hearts and given us cause to reflect on and feel grateful for what we share together as a school community.

As I write I am watching our class three students working in the gardens with Venetia, our new gardening teacher.  

We are thrilled to welcome Venetia to our team because gardening has such a special place in our education. Being in nature, feeling nature, sensing the rhythms of nature, and learning to nurture through nature, are crucial to the healthy development of the child.  Maybe that’s why Steiner himself once said Gardening Education should be “obligatory.” (https://www.waldorflibrary.org/images/stories/articles/gardenclass.pdf ) 

We can also learn from nature.  Several days ago, on the same patch of garden that the year three’s are now turning over, I watched two magpies.  One was a juvenile – still with the last of its down.  It was pitifully calling to the other, an adult.  And the adult was gently leading it to food.  But the adult was not feeding it.  Instead she was teaching the young one to feed itself.  She was, in a magpie way, nurturing independence.  And that involved frustration for the young one.  You could almost hear it in its cries.  I like to think it also involves a dilemma for the adult – a dilema around whether to simply give into the juvenile’s pester-power (and receive the instant-gratitude of that juvenile) or persist in helping the juvenile become independent. (I know, I’m reading way too much into these birds, but bear with me …)  

You won’t be surprised to hear that the adult persisted – for days.  And now that juvenile is feeding itself, and starting to sing its own song, rather than simply crying out to its parent.  

That dilemma is one we all face with our children – the dilemma between holding them tight, and letting them go.  This dilemma is particularly acute at the start of each year.  Yet, as the magpies show us, (and as Dubois and Rousseau illustrate beautifully in their book “A Short Philosophy of Birds”) helping our young manage freedom by nurturing them carefully, by “blending domesticity and liberty,” is one of the keys to both resilience and true happiness.

I would like to thank all our parents who have trusted us enough to let their “fledgelings” stretch their wings in our school, and who have allowed us to be part of that nurturing. 

Paddy

To resolve our past
Requires knowledge.
To forge our future
We need courage.
To experience the present
We must develop dedication.
Our thinking needs
Riddles to wake up.
Our feeling needs
Pain to mature.
Our willing needs
Resistance to become strong. – Rudolf Steiner

It is so heartwarming during these complex times that despite all of the recent changes in staffing, the school has been able to settle into a familiar rhythm, with the mood in the playgrounds being positive and harmonious as we close the week.

We are in awe of our wonderful Staff who have risen to the recent challenges with flexibility and goodwill, and we give our appreciative thanks and gratitude to all our Staff who are working hard at present to keep the Goodship CBRSS on a steady course.

As always, our students inspire and bring us joy every day. In recent days, strolling through the grounds, there are children making fairy houses made of mud and flowers near Class Two, imaginative games under the shade of the trees, games of handball in the dome, energetic Tips games on the field, soccer in the Cola, and smaller children walking by with their teachers, hats bobbing. Class 5 students have been rehearsing their Greek Play, ‘Taverna’, with gusto and the merry sounds of their dancing and music-making are in the air.

Other wonderful happenings this week include the Tobias projects of Class 8! The standard of work somehow gets even better each year and this year it was exceptional. Students unveiled their year-long project, ranging from an exquisitely illustrated picture book to handmade jewelry, original music to body care products, a treehouse to a computer game, honey to a hand-carved desk, and much more. The students set up beautiful displays to showcase their projects in the Hall and addressed an audience of Class 7 about the trials and tribulations of their project journey; and the Class 4, 5 and 6 students enjoyed walking through and looking at the amazing displays too. Seeing the fruition of the students’ work is always inspiring and a joy for all in the high school.

Year 10 completed their first set of formal exams, working conscientiously to complete their Stage 5 courses. Next week they move into the special program, where they will do their final Main Lesson: The Rhythms of Time, as well as doing a range of activities from First Aid to a public speaking course to bushwalking. Year 12 is humming along in their HSC exams, turning up for each one – sometimes two in one day – with an attitude of always doing their best and supporting one another. We are so proud of their resilience and focus. Year 11 students are embracing leadership roles, in volunteering to assist in the Year 10 exams, rehearsing to sing with Loani and Ian at the Class 12 graduation and in nominating themselves for House Leadership positions.

In the best possible ways, our wonderful school is supporting a teaching and learning environment that is feeling rich, alive and positive. We are grateful for the supportive contributions of the whole school community near and far, as we move towards the warmer days of Summer and contemplate the closing of another very full and unique school year.

Best and warm wishes

Paddy and Teera

“Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled – thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty.” Rudolf Steiner

In our K-12 Cape Byron Rudolf Steiner school, each day, the core work of our Leadership, Support and Teaching Staff is to inspire, create and support a healthy teaching and learning environment, with our students, at the centre.

Picture by Tanja Nelson

In navigating the continuing uncertainty, complexity and destabilising effects of ‘unprecedented’ times, it is affirming and helpful to be reminded of and reflect on our school’s Mission and Vision…

Our Mission –To provide a nurturing, creative and academic education inspired by the indications of Rudolf Steiner for a healthy social life and the developing human being.

Our Vision – To enable each individual to realise their potential to be self aware, resourceful and resilient, with the empathy, skills, and initiative to make a positive contribution to the world.

And so, every day in our K-12 classrooms and beautiful school grounds, teachers and students are striving to live, learn, create, work and play together; (often with joy and importantly, also sometimes with sorrow); to grow skills allowing us to interact, understand, cooperate and respect each other; to be responsible and considerate; to appreciate difference, uniqueness, harmony, disharmony, agreement, disagreement, to be brave and courageous, to try new things; to care, to be sensitive and perceptive and passionate; to be appreciative, to feel grateful, to become self aware, to reflect, to adjust, to be adaptive, to grow resilience… 

To be kind and giving to others; and to recognise that all of our friends have different families and stories and needs and learning styles and gifts and destinies.

As a class, we work with all of this and much more, day in and day out; in and out of seasons; year by year; through thick and through thin… And in this way, the class journey is experienced together as an authentic continuum, a community of learning. Our students learn how to practice and refine these qualities over time as a collective – for each individual, and for the greater good of the group – growing comfort in navigating their world, moving from chaos to order, fine tuning, harmonising, and growing a deep sense of love and respect for each other along the way. 

This is the gift and the gold of our Cape Byron Rudolf Steiner Education… 

Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility — these three forces are the very nerve of education.

Perhaps Hugh Mackay’s call for a ‘Kindness Revolution’ is a worthy contemplation at this time? 

He describes ‘Kindness’ as the purest form of love and sees kindness as a personal and collective value and activity that can sustain us through times of uncertainty, both as individuals and communities. 

“We are a social species, therefore a cooperative species. 

It’s in our deepest nature to be cooperative…

How are any of us changed by disruption and by a heightened sense of life’s uncertainties? Either we become frustrated and let our frustration boil over into anger and recklessness, or else we think more clearly about what matters to us. We consider which values are worth clinging to. We become more caring, since that’s the inevitable consequence, for most of us, of realising just how interdependent and interconnected we really are.

By modifying our behaviour so radically in response to the prolonged threat of COVID-19, we were showing our care and concern for each other; our willingness to make personal sacrifices for the common good. And those are signs of the purest form of human love: the love that has nothing to do with emotion or affection; the love that says we will treat each other kindly and respectfully regardless of how we happen to feel about each other, because we know that’s the only way a human community can thrive.”

The Kindness Revolution – Hugh McKay

With Kind thoughts and good wishes

Teera and Paddy

By Teera Palmer 2020
A story written and shared with CBRSS Staff at the close of 2020 – a very big year! Sharing now with the community since 2021 feels like another big year.

Long Long ago,
In a land before time…
There lay some seeds in the deep rich red soil.
The seeds were safe and warm, encased in their hard shells.
And there they stayed and they sat…and they stayed…
And the sun shone, and the winds blew, and the rains rained, over days and years, and…
One day, a little farming gnome who had special magic powers came upon all these seeds and he could see the seeds just sticking out from the soil…here, there, and everywhere…
‘Ahh’ said the farming gnome…
‘I will use my magic to make the perfect growing conditions for these little seeds and with my protection, they will grow so big and so strong… they will make such a fine crop and so much nutrition for all of the gnomes in all the land.’

And so soon, very soon, the seeds began their growing journey and soon very soon…out popped so, so, many little green shoots. And they wriggled and they struggled and strived to move through the soil and reach towards the sun…
And so the little farming gnome set to work and of course he used his magic to make all of the best growing conditions…only the best…and always comfortable and cosy.

So in that growing year, whenever the storms with lightning and dangerous winds came thundering in the sky…the farming gnome made a protective shield of clear quartz crystal over all of the little green shoots to protect them….he was a very protective little farming gnome.
So no thunder, no strong winds, no dangers ever came upon the crop.
No grasshoppers to nibble the shoots, no hail, no flooding rains, no challenges…

And the little farming gnome made everything just-so… So nice and comfy…
And he used his magic to make just the right amount of sun when he wanted sun…but never so hot that the green shoots could wilt…And just the right amount of gentle misty rain when the plants were thirsty…but never too much…
And everything was perfect, and even and measured.

The plants were growing so high towards the sky and the little farming gnome was feeling so very pleased with all his care and good work.
The day came when the little farming gnome knew it was time to harvest the grain from all these healthy, green, tall plants that he had protected so well…so that he could share the food with all his friends…
But, as he cut the first tall plant he was surprised and disappointed. There was no grain inside. Quickly he cut more and more, and found that each plant had none…
‘Oh me, oh my, how is it that my careful, protective magic failed….why is there no grain from this crop’?

Just then, a swirling wind blew by the little farming gnome….and over, and under, and all around…
‘Ahhh I can tell you why’ said the wind….‘It is strange, but it is true…
It is because there was no challenge, no storms, no wind, no heavy rains, and because there was no conflict, no struggle, no challenge…that the grains did not grow full and strong and ripen.’
‘Being the wind…I know that storms are needed, thunder, lightning, dry and heat are needed….They shake up the soul and wake up the grain, so it strives to grow strong and full and ripe.’
The little farming gnome was listening closely to the wind.

And then the sun chimed in too….
‘Ah yes,’ agreed the Sun…
’And night is needed…and so is day…and days of happiness…and days of sadness…and this is the great wisdom of life…of understanding…and slowly, slowly little farming gnome…if you can see my sunrise…and sunset…and feel glad for both…you will come to know the rhythm of life…the rhythm of duality…the rhythm of polarity…and all that is between. You will no longer cast your magic to make everything just-so….and, you will have found life’s secret, and the way to grow healthy crops.’
‘Come now, follow me’….said the Sun…
’Follow the nature of all things…follow the Moon…follow the stars…befriend the stormy skies, and the wind, and the rain too…for my warming rays will always come again upon you…
Know this….trust this ….and you will feel the grace.’

And from that day on, the little farming gnome used no more of his protection, nor his just-so, magic…
Instead…he looked to the majesty of the skies each day and he worked with all that the seasons brought…
And everyday…his heart was filled with gladness for all that was…

What a beautiful start to this term we have had. The grounds are looking wonderful, the weather is perfect, and the students have returned with so much energy and purpose. It has also been a busy start of term.
Along with all the usual life and energy in the school, we have also been concentrating on revising our mobile phone policy – specifically in relation to internet-enabled smartphone use by lower High School students. Conversations with parents, wider research on the impact of smartphones on wellbeing, and our own observations and experience, increasingly worry us about this issue.

Whilst we know that some technology can be a good servant, it can also be a very bad master, and it is incredibly hard for young people to not be mastered by smartphone technology. Smartphones are, in one sense, an unusual technology, because they are designed to be used in isolation from social checks and balances, and they open up unfettered access to the entire internet. In this, they offer huge temptation to our young students – temptation to explore areas of the web, for which they are not yet developmentally ready. Not only that, but the presence of pop-ups and the access to strangers means students regularly have unsolicited – and often horrible – social-media messages/images/videos foist upon them.

So, in response to this complex situation, we are in the process of seeking ways to reduce these risks and better support our whole school community, and especially our younger High School students.
We recently discussed student smartphone use and risk with Class 7 parents and they were keen for a supportive approach, designed to minimise risk for their children, to be implemented at our school.
Last week we also had some wonderful ‘student-voice’ sessions in Classes 8 and 9 to gain their perspectives. It was so refreshing to hear the maturity and balance in discussion with these students, who, despite being wary of any possible change to our mobile phone policies, could reflect on the difficulties with open-minded warmth and intelligence.

This week we are happy to announce that we have now initiated a new ‘Leave Phone At Home’ approach, beginning with our Class 7 students. Essentially, we have asked Class 7 Parents to support us in ensuring their child’s smartphone is not brought to school. This is because we are particularly concerned about students being tempted to take them out of bags to use them in unsupervised moments, such as when they are on the bus.

Concurrently, we are also in the process of refining a system which may allow smartphone permission for some particular individual circumstances; that is, for any student who must carry a smartphone, for example, to monitor a medical condition.

In the near future, we will be communicating on this topic with parents of Class 8 & 9 students, so that they too can join the conversation; but for now, we just wanted to reassure all of our school community that we are hearing and responding to the many concerns around this area of 21st century life.
Friday Markets
We do hope you are thrilled that, with the easing of Covid restrictions, we are once again beginning to open up some of our school community events, beginning with our Friday Market this week. We are also busily envisioning and planning festivals and other events; while conversations about what else we could do, have begun at P&F…
And so, as we move closer to Winter days, we leave you with these thoughts, from the American author John Steinbeck and the English writer Edith Sitwell:

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?”
“Winter is the time for comfort … for the touch of a friendly hand and for talk by the fire: it is the time for home.”

Happy Term 2 and best wishes
Paddy & Teera

Can you feel that Autumn’s coming?
Can you feel it in the air?
For the secrets are revealed to you
In everything everywhere…

Its the green of hills and valleys
And pink grasses everywhere
And the rainbow arched so high above
Its beauty for all to share…

Such a wonderful, industrious feeling of purpose and progress is permeating our school in the 6th week of Term 1. With the beautiful sounds of student voices singing in choir, and recorders and string instruments playing, a soothing mood meanders through the school each day, giving the lovely, reassuring feeling ‘that all is well’!
In the Kindergarten, children are busily working with beeswax modelling, making a twisty tie, finger knitting and sewing and their seasonal transition to Autumn and Harvest is underway.
As always, much is happening elsewhere in the school; Class 9 are currently away on a 10 day hiking camp at Yuraygir National Park, Class 12 are preparing for an excursion to Sydney this week that will enhance their experience of subject studies; Classes 4-6 attended 5 days of swimming, and Classes 2&3 are swimming each day this week at Mullumbimby Pool.
In the garden, beds are being prepared all around our grounds by our capable Class 12 students, in readiness for special plantings by those in younger classes in coming weeks; and students are jogging each morning in preparation for the upcoming Class 5, 6 and High School Cross Country Events at Brunswick Heads on the last day of term, Thursday April 1.

Happy Autumn Days
Teera

Dear Parents and Community Members,

Now that our new school year is underway and we have all begun to settle in, Teera and I as your new Co-Heads of School welcome and wish you all a Happy 2021.

Like all the staff, we were incredibly excited to welcome our students back.  It has been so energising to see the enthusiasm with which they are settling back into our rhythms. Listening to the holiday stories, hearing the sounds of singing and play, and of music and happy chatter has been wonderful.

Some of the many special moments of this first fortnight have included our Class 1 Rainbow Bridge Crossing, our new Kindergarten children beginning and morning teas with the parents of Kindergarten and Class 1.

We also loved the sheer joy and enthusiasm shared by students and teachers at our High School Swimming Carnival, and also hearing the news of last year’s Class 12’s and their amazing achievements has been a highlight – we feel incredibly proud of them!

But for me, the biggest highlight has been getting to know the students, the staff and the community.

I have long known that Steiner Education provides a particularly rich environment for whole-person flourishing.  In fact, throughout my career I have been inspired by Steiner’s beliefs that

“Our highest endeavour must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves, to impart purpose and direction to their lives.” and that “The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility … are the very nerve of education.”

It is so wonderful getting to know this, my new school, and to see Steiner’s aspirations being lived out in this beautiful community.

Joining this school is a real honour, and I look forward to meeting all of you and making CBRSS my new ‘home.’ My thanks to everyone who has welcomed me so warmly.

Paddy Innes-Hill
Co-Head of School

Greetings to Parents and Friends

In the air, all around just now, there is such a wonderful feeling of increasing warmth and excited quickening, to which the birds and the cicadas are also noisily contributing.

As always, at this very fulsome time of year, it feels like the collective challenge for us all, is to strive for calm, centredness, and a sense of balance, as we reflect on and celebrate the culmination of a year of growth, work, effort, activity and the general navigation of our life path.

This Term (4), continues to feel particularly full for staff and students, given it is short and being only 9 weeks. With the easing of some Covid restrictions, we have been allowed and hence, have needed to crowd most of our camps, excursions, plays and other events, which are usually spaced throughout the year, into this brief time.

As a staff, in true resilient style, we have risen to the challenge and facilitated 7 Class Camps this term, in addition to many excursions, Primary swimming, several Class Plays, Class Parent Meetings which included Melanie Deefholts presenting valuable Parent Education sessions and much more.

As always, we have also proudly and affectionately farewelled our amazing Year 12 graduating students (see photos following in this Bulletin) and the Primary school will soon farewell the Class 6 Students, as they move towards ‘crossing the bridge’ to High School next year.

Our Kindergarten children are also busily working to finish their craft bags which will travel with them when they cross the ‘Rainbow Bridge’ to Class 1 next year and they will together enjoy a Festival of Christmas celebrating the Gifts of Love and Peace, on the last day of term: Friday 11 December 2020.

We are thankful that we have been able to invite parents to join us in person for some of our special Class events this term, and in these times, we also hugely appreciate that we continue to feel the support of all of our wonderful parents from afar.

Best wishes and strength to all

Teera

The wind is in the barley-grass
The wattles are in bloom
The breezes greet us as they pass
With honey-sweet perfume;
The parakeets go screaming by
With flash of golden wing,
And from the swamp the wild-ducks cry
Their long-drawn note of revelry
Rejoicing at the spring.

A.B.Paterson

Isn’t it lovely to feel Spring in the air?

With the recent warmer mornings, the bright moon-lit nights and welcome rain too, it feels with nature’s offerings, we have much to feel grateful for!
One of the lovely times of day on our school site is late afternoon when everything gradually becomes quieter and quieter and the animals and birds come out to play.

It was just this time last Friday when something unexpected and magical happened. A very active, healthy Koala came bounding across the top green playground (much like a rabbit) and scampered up a tree…it sat and looked around…then climbed higher and took a flying leap to another tree. It leapt this way from tree to tree several times before climbing back down to the ground, sniffing at the Macadamia tree and ambling onto the brick path past my office, then it rabbit-hopped quickly past Class 3, towards Class 1 and over to the Eucalypt trees he was surely seeking! So special!

In Animal Dreaming, a book by Scott Alexander King, Koala represents Journeys – A sacred journey that is unique for everyone, an expedition that supports the individual needs and requirements of all people. Koala reassures us that we inherently know the answers to our questions. Koala can show us that now is the time to take responsibility for our own life, our own path and our own destiny by listening to our heart of hearts. With Koala dreaming, the potential for growth and transformation strengthens.

Happy Spring Days

Teera

Students and Staff have had a lovely few weeks together since returning from the break and the school is now feeling well and truly settled into Term 3. With the many brisk and chilly mornings we’ve had, it is wonderful to now start feeling the Spring warmth pushing through when the sun is high in the sky. I hope you are finding some time on these beautiful days, to sit peacefully, soak up the warmth and re-energise. 

I’m sure you will have noticed all the beautiful yellow Wattles in bloom at the moment? As just one species of a large group of flora in Australia, the Golden Wattle has come to be known as a symbol of unity. Wattle is able to withstand Australia’s droughts, winds and bushfires and wattle also often grows and regenerates land that has been disturbed. In contemplating the resilience of Wattle growing on this Australian land, one can visualise that resilience and spirit in the people of this land….May the Golden Wattles inspire you to reflect optimistically on this aspect of our Australian land, its people and our school community at this time.

On the 30th July we were very pleased to launch the Community Giving Fund. The fund is a wonderful new initiative, established as a simple way for those that are able, to make financial contributions in support of school families who are finding it difficult to meet their fee commitments. To launch the Fund, the school has made a significant contribution and has already financially supported many families.

To make your contribution, please follow this link to: The Community Giving Fund 

Every act of generosity and simple kindness, big or small, has a powerful effect and goes a long way to supporting each other.

Our thanks to Jon in our ICT department for the platform setup and to Eleni for the artwork.

We are also very excited to have now launched our Virtual School Tour!  This enables us to offer prospective parents and students a look at our campus, grounds and to glimpse inside classrooms and buildings. There is much to see including videos and we will continue to add new video and images to the Tour over time.

A huge thank you to Yvette, Mat and Jon, who put so much time, effort and heart into making this project happen.  

Please follow the link to have a look!  School Tour

Changes To Spring Fair 2020

The joy of the coming of Spring is always a special celebration for our school. However, this year due to restrictions, we are not able to invite our school and wider community to our usual Spring Fair day. Instead, we are adapting to this situation and making preparations for a lovely Spring Festival in which K-12 students and staff will celebrate together. 

Though parents will not be able to participate in this event onsite; we will do our best to include you from afar, by video recording and photographing some of the special moments and offerings on the day to share with you, such as the Maypole Dance.

Our Spring Festival will take place during the school day on Monday the 21st September.  

Please note that the Pupil Free SetUp Day planned for Friday 18th September is cancelled. Students will now be attending on Friday 18th September as a normal school day.

More information about the Spring Festival and how parents may assist their children to prepare will be sent out as we get closer to the day. 

Wishing  you all the best

Teera

As we end Term 2, we are constantly looking to ‘what comes next’ with our life during COVID.  The School is always on the task of keeping updated on where our movements as a community may be relaxing as we progress.

In line with recent updates received by our independent sources, we are hoping to be able to relax a few restrictions for the school in Term 3. If all continues to go well in the Byron Shire during and following the school holiday period in regard to Covid-19, we hope the school will be able to ease the following restrictions, which may include recommencing:

1. After-school activities such as: Drama with Judy and sport training i.e. Basketball 
2. School sport including activities such as contact sport and carnivals 
3. School Assemblies 
4. A limited provision Canteen service 
5. Repair Care & Maintenance tasks (Individually arranged with Gavin – Site Manager)

The restrictions that need to remain in place in Term 3 will be as follows:

1. No Excursion and Camps
2. No on-site events such as Spring Fair or Friday Markets
3. No Repair Care & Maintenance Days with large numbers of parents
4. No Parents on CBRSS site unless collecting a child from an approved year level (Kindergarten & Class 1 only ) or in an emergency

I would like to take the opportunity to thank you for your continued support and for acknowledging the School’s guidelines around keeping our community safe.  The staff and parents of CBRSS have done an outstanding job of caring for our school through the pandemic.

Teera