Excellence & Equity for All
Excellence & Equity for All
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Welcome to Mangere Bridge School!Ko Tainui Te Waka
Ko Te Pane o Mataoho te Maunga Ko Te Manukanuka o Hoturoa te Moana Ko Te Waiohua te Iwi Ko Te Piriti o Mangere te kura Together Growing Inquiring minds for successful futures through Partnership, Achievement and Learning EXCELLENCE AND EQUITY FOR ALL 
COVID 19 UpdatesCovid Alert level update - 12th October 2021Tuesday 12 October, 2021
Kia ora MBS whaanau, We hope you are enjoying the holiday and keeping happy, healthy and safe in your bubbles. Following the announcement yesterday afternoon, we can see that the government has kept with their cautious approach when responding to COVID-19 and as a result, Auckland will stay at Alert Level 3 for a bit longer. We are proud of how our community has responded to this outbreak but the mahi isn’t yet done. Please continue to follow all the alert level requirements including staying at home and getting tested for COVID-19 if you are feeling unwell and for your own sake and for the health of your whaanau, please get vaccinated. I have included some information about vaccinations to support decision making. At full Alert Level 3 you legally must stay within your household bubble unless for essential personal movement, including going to work and going to school. We are therefore open once more from Monday 18 October for only the small number of children who need to attend. All our usual safety precautions for Alert Level 3 will be in place which include all the recommendations from the public health experts. This means students will be kept in bubbles of no more than 10. Our staff on-site will also have been tested for COVID-19 before they get back to work and we are moving toward having 100 percent of our staff vaccinated. It is now legally required that we hold a COVID-19 vaccination register for all eligible students and staff – so we are all playing our part in keeping our community safe. You can also assist everyone’s safety by keeping your child at home if they are feeling unwell and please do contact your GP or Healthline, to seek advice about getting tested. From 18 October, when Term 4 begins, we will continue to support all children who remain learning from home through our distance learning programme. For those tamariki and their whaanau who are due to join our Mangere Bridge School whaanau on this day, we welcome you! Your child's teacher will be in touch about how to access learning through Seesaw. While we know how difficult it is trying to work from home as well as support your child’s learning, please keep your child at home if there is an appropriate carer available. For those of you with no other option, we look forward to seeing your child at school next week. If you have no other choice but to send your child to school, please complete this survey and I will send you a follow-up email to clarify your situation and let you know more details about what you and your child can expect when coming back to school. Noho haumaru, noho hauora. Stay safe, stay healthy. Please reach out if you have any questions or need anything, whaanau. Kia kaha. Ngaa mihi, Dale Munro Acting Principal MANGERE BRIDGE SCHOOL Covid Alert level update - 13th September 2021Kia ora MBS whaanau,
You would have heard the announcement that Auckland is remaining at Alert Level 4 until 11:59pm on Tuesday 21 September and moving to Alert Level 3 on Wednesday 22 September. At Alert Level 3, we legally must continue to stay within our household bubble unless for essential personal movement including going to work and going to school. As stated by our Prime Minister, schools are essentially closed at Alert Level 3 with the exception of those few children whose parents and carers must go to work at Alert Level 3, and there is no appropriate caregiver at home. So, unless the situation changes, we will be open from next Wednesday 22 September, for a small number of children who need to attend because they have no other option. As you imagine, it will not be school as we know it under Alert Level 2 or 1. All our usual safety precautions for Alert Level 3 will be in place which include following all the recommendations from the public health experts. This means we will regularly clean and disinfect high touch surfaces, encourage everyone to frequently wash their hands and cover their coughs and sneezes, and keep everyone physically distanced from others as much as possible. We will also keep school bubbles to no more than 10 students. These bubbles will not mix with other bubbles. Our contact tracing systems will be in place, which includes our attendance register and visitor register, and we will be limiting staff onsite with the majority of our team working and teaching your children from their homes, just as they have been doing during Alert Level 4. You can also assist everyone’s safety by keeping your child at home if they are feeling unwell and please do contact your GP or Healthline, to seek advice about getting tested. We want to thank and continue to support all our amazing tamariki who remain learning from home through our distance learning programme. Where possible, children who come to school will also continue working on the distance learning programme prepared by their classroom teacher, while being supervised by their school bubble teacher. Please note, this will not be their regular teacher. We know how challenging it is trying to work from home as well as support your child’s learning, and we want to thank you for continuing to do this. Please keep your child at home if there is an appropriate carer available. For those of you with no other option, we look forward to seeing your child at school next week. Please fill out this survey if you need to send your child to school during Alert Level 3. We will follow up with an email if we need further clarification regarding your situation and to let you know what you and your child can expect when they come to school. Noho haumaru, noho hauora. Stay safe, stay healthy. Please reach out if you need anything, whaanau. Kia kaha. Ngaa mihi, Dale Munro Acting Principal MANGERE BRIDGE SCHOOL 
Covid 19 - Level 4 / 23 August 2021 -update23 August 2021
Remaining at Alert Level 4 Kia ora MBS whaanau, I think we had all anticipated a further extension of Alert Level 4, and the Prime Minister has confirmed this. As you’ll have seen this afternoon, Auckland will continue to stay in Alert Level 4 until 11:59pm Tuesday 31 August, while the rest New Zealand will stay in Alert Level 4 until 11.59pm on Friday 27 August. Further decisions will be made on Friday afternoon for the rest of New Zealand and on Monday afternoon for Auckland. And so our distance learning programme will continue! Today we successfully delivered over 130 devices to those families who requested these through our survey. How rewarding it was to see the smiles on the tamariki's faces as their packages were delivered. The number of Seesaw posts and participants in Zoom sessions has been rapidly growing over the last few days so keep up the great work, everyone. We know many of you have requested learning packs from the Ministry of Education and we will keep you informed about these as they become available. Despite this news of an extended Alert Level 4, it is really pleasing to see that numbers of confirmed cases are not dramatically increasing as they would likely have done if we had been at a lower alert level. You may be wondering how, with so many contacts of confirmed cases being identified, we aren’t seeing bigger case numbers. Just like the Delta variant is different, so has been New Zealand’s response. Previously we might have moved to Alert Level 2 or 3 if there was a new COVID-19 case in the community (which happened most recently in Wellington). This time we moved immediately to Alert Level 4, after only one case had been identified. Health authorities are also casting a much wider net to determine who is a contact of a confirmed case. People who previously might have been considered a casual contact are now being treated as contacts. Where schools may have closed for three days while contact tracing was undertaken, they are now closing for 14 days with staff and students all self-isolating for that time. As a result, there are more than 13,000 close contacts being followed up by health authorities. There is a lot we can all do to protect our whaanau and community from COVID-19 including:
We can also make sure we are passing on good information. There is a very helpful article by Dr Siouxsie Wiles and Toby Morris in The Spinoff regarding misinformation and disinformation. “Good information put out to help you make an informed choice won’t make you feel scared or angry. It’ll make you feel empowered.” Please also note, it is only in very limited circumstances that our staff, students, parents or caregivers are allowed to come to the school grounds. So please do not come to school unless you have been individually contacted by us to do so. Otherwise, you will be in breach of the COVID-19 Health Response Order. Finally, we know some families in our community may be finding it difficult to access food and essential items such as medicine. This information about how to access food or essential items summarises the supports that are available, including financial help to buy food. Please do take care and let us know how we can best support you and your whaanau during this time. Kia kaha. Ngaa mihi, Dale Munro Acting Principal MANGERE BRIDGE SCHOOL 09 636 7304 Covid 19 - Level 4 / 21 August 2021 -updateAta maarie MBS whaanau,
Like us, you probably looked at the emerging cases from this outbreak and thought that some further time at Alert Level 4 was the best thing for our community. That thinking was confirmed yesterday afternoon when the Prime Minister advised that we will remain at Alert Level 4 until 11.59pm on 24 August. We will learn more on Monday about what will happen next. I wanted to reassure you that our school staff and board will continue to be available to support your child’s learning and wellbeing in the coming days. To help further support your child's learning at home, on Monday and Tuesday, a small team of us will be delivering school-owned devices to those of you who have requested these through our survey. We will be wearing masks and following strict distancing and hygiene rules, following a "drop, knock and run" approach. Please ensure you are at the address you gave us when you filled out the survey. Hard pack contents are online for you and your whaanau to access via the Learning From Home and Ki te Ao Marama websites. The Ministry of Education is working on providing these in printable formats and we will keep you updated on their hard learning packs as we know many of you have requested these. We hope you are doing OK at the moment – but it is also OK if you aren’t. As the Mental Health Foundation of NZ says, “it’s all right to feel a range of emotions right now. Going into a Level 4 lockdown is a big deal and it brings all sorts of different feelings to the surface, including frustration, worry and even gratitude. However you are feeling, know that you’re not alone – we’re all going through this together.” You will also understand the importance of routine for your family. If your routine has been shaken up, it’s good to structure your time. Routines are reassuring and promote health and physical wellbeing. For our Pacific families, if you are not aware, the Ministry for Pacific Peoples’ has been working to ensure useful information is available to Pacific peoples in nine different languages. A big thank you to all of you for taking the lockdown so seriously – we’ve seen before that staying at home will break the chain of transmission and save lives. Breaking the rules could risk someone close to you and if the rules are not complied with, this could risk the lock down period being extended or could risk the virus being spread to thousands. Please keep checking the locations of interest and get tested if you were at that location at the specified time, or if you have symptoms which could be COVID-19. And just a quick point – please don’t use our playground during lockdown. Playgrounds cannot be used at Alert Level 4. As always, please let us know if there is anything you need to support you and your tamariki during this time. Noho ora mai. Enjoy your weekend. Ngaa mihi, Dale Munro Acting Principal MANGERE BRIDGE SCHOOL 09 636 7304 Covid 19 - Level 4 / 19 th August 2021 - Day 2 updateKia ora MBS whaanau,
Heading into Day 2 of lockdown, we miss seeing you all and hope you are well and keeping safe in your bubbles. Just checking in with a couple of updates. Devices and home learning packs Understandably, there have been many requests for us to send out school-owned devices and learning packs to support your child's learning at home. As much as we would love to support you with this right now, we all have to stay home, too. No staff are permitted to go into school yet but we will keep you updated on this. Please be assured your tamariki are not going to fall behind in their learning from not having immediate access to these resources. From our MBS Manaakitanga Team It can be challenging going back into Alert Level 4 for a number of reasons. If you or anyone you know wants some advice or support over this time, please find attached below a list of available care and support services that remain open. Please don't hesitate to get in touch if there is something you need assistance with. Noho ora mai. Ngaa mihi, Dale Munro Acting Principal MANGERE BRIDGE SCHOOL Covid 19 - Level 4 / 18th August 2021 update
Message from Acting Principal - Dale Munro
Kia ora whaanau, We are now all in Alert Level 4 which means that our school will not be open onsite tomorrow, for any students. None of our staff are allowed on site either until further notice. This is due to someone being identified with COVID-19 who has been in the Auckland and Coromandel communities while believed to be infectious. It is really important we do everything we can to keep our community safe. Alert Level 4 means we need to stay home in our bubbles and avoid any travelling as much as possible. Supermarkets, pharmacies, foodbanks and other essential services will be open – but remember to wear a face covering if you are out and about (even a scarf wrapped around your mouth and nose will help). Check in using the NZ COVID Tracer App wherever you go and please also keep a distance from people you don’t know and wash your hands well and often, especially before and after using any public facilities. With such short notice we weren’t able to hand out devices or hard packs to students in order to support distance learning. Your child's teacher will be in touch tomorrow with some information to support learning from home. Please fill out the survey we sent out earlier today (check your email, Seesaw and Facebook) so we are able to best cater for your child's access to online learning and any other support you may need during this time. Please go to the Ministry of Health website if you live in Auckland or the Coromandel region, or have recently visited there. There is a list of locations the confirmed case has visited while they were considered to be infectious. If you were at one of those locations and at the same time as specified on the website, then please follow the relevant instructions to isolate and potentially to get tested. Please keep checking that webpage as new locations may be identified over time. Our focus as always will be to support the learning, safety and wellbeing of our tamariki and we continue to be here to support you as well. Please don’t hesitate to contact your child’s kaiako or me, if there is something you need assistance with. Kia noho haumaru. Ngaa mihi, Dale Munro Acting Principal MANGERE BRIDGE SCHOOL Update on Enrolment to include Te Hiaroa (Bilingual unit)
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