Category: Updates from Rose Bay Secondary College

Jared has had a busy week discharging his Arts Captain responsibilities. 

Congratulations Grayson, the Sydney South Schools Regional Senior Surfing Champion for 2019.

On the May 3, a number of students across all grades, attended the 2019 Secondary Schools Day, Sydney Writers’ Festival.

On May 7 our Senior Boys Futsal Team competed at the Bankstown Futsal Schools Regional Championship​.

On the February 5, the Year 12 Visual Art students had the privilege of visiting the Art Gallery of N.S.W. 

This past Monday, 13 Year 9 boys ventured out to Granville Park for the NSW Junior School Ultimate Disc State Championships.

Ex Rose Bay Secondary College student Maddy Darke is doing big things in the women’s Big Bash. Below is a snippet from the Wentworth Courier about her achievement. 

Over 100 RBSC students performed to enthusiastic crowds at Festivilion on Saturday November 16 including Rose Vox, our school choir, The Middle Men, our jazz ensemble, and sixteen amazing rock bands who took over the amphitheatre.

The NSW Department of Education is introducing proactive measures to limit the impact of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in our schools.

Mark Scott, Secretary of the Department of Education, today announced that schools would adopt social distancing measures requiring them to cancel assemblies, excursions, travel, some events and conferences.

Mr Scott said these measures are precautionary and designed to reduce exposure via non-essential gatherings.

“Schools have been a focus of the community and the government as the impacts of coronavirus have developed globally,” Mr Scott said.

“From Monday onwards, I expect school assemblies and substantial gatherings to be cancelled, along with all excursions.

“The community expects schools to be as safe as possible. We are implementing these measures to provide peace of mind for students, parents and staff.”

“These cancellations also extend to inter-school arts, sports, initiative activities and events.

All major arts, sports and initiative activities and events will temporarily be ceased until further notice. This includes whole-school sporting events and inter-school events involving three or more schools.

“Local inter-school sport and other activities can proceed, but we ask organisers to ensure that as far as possible, reasonable precautions are taken,” Mr Scott said.

“I trust our principals and staff to show leadership during this time.”

Schools will be provided with more detailed advice and suggestions on how they can adjust their day to day activities with minimal disruption.

The department is continuing to prepare for further closures if necessary with scaling up of technology, additional training of staff and preparation of offsite lessons.

Families and students in self-isolation can find useful information to continue learning from home.

For the latest information, check COVID-19 advice for schools.

Many schools are responding to the catastrophic fire rating that is affecting communities across the state this week.

We are continuously updating the School safety page with a list of government and non-government schools, as well as TAFE NSW campuses that are currently non-operational.

While some schools are temporarily non-operational due to localised fires, many others in high-risk areas are non-operational as a precautionary measure.

Schools in some areas are being used as emergency evacuation centres at the direction of the Rural Fire Service.

For schools that are currently operational, school pickups and dropoffs will continue as usual. If your school is currently non-operational, it will likely remain so tomorrow.

Large scale distressing events affect our school communities in many ways. Headspace’s mental health support resource (PDF 100.52KB) is available to help students, teachers and school staff respond to the bushfires.

Visit the School safety page for updates. The department’s Facebook and Twitter accounts will also provide updates during this period.