Kia ora e te ASHS whānau,

Some of you either didn’t receive yesterday’s message sent from KAMAR or it may have landed in your SPAM folder so I am resending the information shared last night. 

Yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon we received notification that a student was at the school while infectious with measles on Thursday 27 and Friday 28 April. 

Please read the attached letter carefully. 

Link to letter: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10B7S8-ijcAPQJfD0t9_dOfpK07ty1NWR/view?usp=share_link

By order of the Ministry of Health, ASHS will be closed for the next two days at least. No students should come on-site tomorrow or Friday. 

We realise this news will be unexpected, please rest assured that we are working closely with the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education and that we have a plan in place.

Update – We will be meeting with the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education to determine the next steps later today. I know that many of you will be concerned about the potential loss of learning time. Tomorrow (Friday) all students will be provided with their classwork via their Google Classrooms. It is expected that all students continue learning from home on Friday. If there are any further closures we will share our strategy for managing ‘Learning from Home’. As you will appreciate, all of this is beyond the school’s control and we too hope to be back face-to-face as soon as possible. 

I want you to know that we will be in touch with more information, as soon as it comes to hand. 

Nga mihi 

Claire