As term 1 closes for our devoted staff at Gympie Special, I would like to extend a warm and gigantic THANK YOU to our entire school community. Impacts from the current social restrictions are felt across our entire community and it is within these times of crisis we reassess what is important to us all. We are all living and breathing through experiences we have never dealt with before and we are all unsure as to how or when it will all change back to normal. We are here for you in your time of need. Send a message via email and Facebook, send a photo, a video or a voice recording, whatever works best for you, keep it touch!

Give yourselves a break and enjoy quality family time with your children. Enjoy your term break playing, laughing and enjoying each other’s company. Teaching staff have been busy this week, preparing home learning packs and online activities in the event that learning from home transpires. The Government will inform us all before April 20^th and we will send more information about home learning, if it happens at the commencement of term 2. Rest assured in the event home learning occurs, teachers will be there to support you all, checking in with phone calls, emails, Facebook messages and with any luck via video link (if we can get it up and running smoothly). This will be a new method of teaching for our teachers, and a new way of learning for our precious children. So always, always, always, be kind to yourselves. If your child is finding home learning difficult, you can only do the best you can. Above all, you and your family’s happiness, well-being and calmness is most important. Home is a place to feel safe, loved and encouraged, especially during these times. Your children will be missing their normal routines, their friends, playtime, taxi and bus drivers, teachers, carers, classrooms and school activities. It will be new to all of us, so be easy on yourself, do not force schoolwork if it is not working. If it happens we will be with you on this new journey, we will be in touch and we can problem solve together. 

Stay safe and play together, have a fantastic Easter and enjoy the school break until April 20.