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Last Updated: 12 September 2022

Advice for schools and kura

Advice and guidance for schools and kura

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Last Updated: 12 September 2022

Health and safety

COVID-19 health and safety guidance, risk assessment

Managing staff

Managing staff leave, health and safety, additional relief teaching funding (ARTF)

Supporting ākonga at higher risk of illness from COVID

Mask use, learning offsite and avenues for supporting akōnga with high health needs

Ventilation

It is important you consider how you ventilate your teaching and other occupied indoor spaces

Mask supply for schools

How to order masks for use by school staff and students

Rapid Antigen Tests

How to get Rapid Antigen Tests (RATs) for symptomatic and asymptomatic testing in the education sector

School hostels

Guidance for school hostels

Distance learning

Support for distance learning

Attendance and engagement

Supporting attendance and student engagement

Key messages in different languages

Schools and kura can choose the messages they want to use when communicating updates with parents, whānau and wider community

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