COVID CONTINUES TO DISRUPT

Support and advice on managing the COVID-19 pandemic in member schools dominate the work of the AISSA staff, who also continue to focus on areas such as school registration, copyright, compliance and accountability, child protection, behaviour management, enrolment, Commonwealth and State Government data collections and student attendance.

International students begin returning to member schools, but despite initial hopes for a return-to-normal school setting in the second year of the pandemic, schools in South Australia continue to operate under various restrictions to maintain face-to-face learning. Except for the government’s July directive to switch to remote learning during the state lockdown, schools manage to maintain onsite learning for most of the year.

The management of COVID-19 results in increased responsibility for individual schools, with the AISSA supporting the process for staff exemptions under SA Health’s close contact rules and providing Rapid Antigen Tests for staff in member schools.

 

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