Fitzroy Community School

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School openings and COVID-19

Research into medical advice regarding the opening of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Covid-19 Research - Children and Schools.pdf

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Media

• The Age - March 22, 2022 - The mental health of young people is almost visibly unravelling
• Herald Sun - February 23, 2022 - Health experts slam decision to keep masks on some primary school children
• The Age - February 22, 2022 - Restrictions ease further, but experts question ongoing mask rule for primary schools
• The Age - January 29, 2022 - How will schools ‘live with COVID’ when classes go back?
• The Telegraph - January 19, 2022 - What the pandemic has really done to our children’s minds
• The Telegraph - January 18, 2022 - Thousands of children have fallen off the radar during lockdown, warns Dame Rachel De Souza
• ABC News - January 13, 2022 - How does Omicron affect kids? The experts have some reassuring findings
• Herald Sun - December 17, 2021 - Outbreaks in aged care and schools continue to keep case numbers up in the region.
• Herald Sun - December 7, 2021 - Andrews government warned of suicide spike triggered by lockdowns
• The Age - December 3, 2021 - Optometrists spot ‘new pandemic’ of post-lockdown short-sightedness
• Herald Sun - November 17, 2021 - Victorian students’ wellbeing takes grim dive
• abc news (America) - October 8, 2021 - Maskless and unvaccinated, millions of pupils have returned to English schools
• HART - October 6, 2021 - No effect of school closures on COVID-19 in children
• The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners - news GP- September 20, 2021 - Children’s risk of long COVID ‘substantially lower’ than expected
• The Guardian - September 15, 2021 - Principal of Fitzroy school at centre of Covid cluster denies breaking latest Melbourne lockdown rules
• Herald Sun - September 14, 2021 - Children must not be lumped with vax burden
• 9 News - September 13, 2021 - Melbourne school denies encouraging students to attend during lockdown
• ABC News - September 13, 2021 - School in Melbourne's inner north defends stance on remote learning despite COVID-19 outbreak
• The Age - September 13, 2021 - 'The children are hurting': Principal of Fitzroy school at centre of cluster digs in
• The Conversation - September 8, 2021 - More children are self-harming since the start of the pandemic. Here’s what parents and teachers can do to help
• The Sydney Morning Herald - August 15, 2021 - Calls to Kids Helpline surge in Melbourne and Sydney
• McKinsey - July 27, 2021 - COVID-19 and education: The lingering effects of unfinished learning
• ABC Radio Melbourne - July 26, 2021 - Infectious diseases expert calls for Victorian schools to reopen as soon as possible
• Herald Sun - July 20, 2021 - Kids Must Go Back To School
• Commission For Children and Young People - Victorian Government - July 23, 2021 - Growing pandemic impacts revealed in new survey of Victoria’s children and young people released today
• BBC News - July 9, 2021 - Covid: Children's extremely low risk confirmed by study
• The Telegraph - July 7, 2021 - Children should never have been locked down
• The Telegraph - July 1, 2021 - Children’s physical activity levels have plummeted in pandemic
• Murdoch Children's Research Institute - June 30, 2021 - Poor mental health, suicidal thoughts and school closure stress felt among teens during COVID-19 pandemic
• The Royal Australasian College of Physicians - July 1, 2021 - RACP warns against blanket school closures, and says Governments should not ‘extend’ school holidays to manage outbreak
• The Telegraph - June 30, 2021 - When my daughter isolates, it’s horrendous - Readers reveal lockdown's impact on their children
• The Telegraph - June 29, 2021 - School self-isolation hitting poor pupils hardest
• The Telegraph - June 28, 2021 - End the ‘madness’ of isolating children, Government warned
• The Economist - June 24, 2021 - Closing the world's schools caused children great harm
• Murdoch Children's Research Institute - June 23, 2021 - Australian schools should be prioritised to stay open during COVID-19 pandemic
• Josh Frydenberg MP - June 9, 2021 - Kids have had enough and should be in school
• The Telegraph - March 22, 2021 - Lockdown proponents assumed the worst when they had no evidence
• abc news (America) - March 1, 2021 - Sweden has avoided a COVID-19 lockdown so far: Has its strategy worked?
• The Age - February 21, 2021 - School closures should be a last resort
• Murdoch Children's Research Institute - February 17, 2021 - Immune system protects children from severe COVID-19
• Murdoch Children's Research Institute - February 2021 - COVID-19 research: Back to school
• BMJ Journals - Achives of Diseases in Childhood - March 12, 2021 - COVID-19 related increase in childhood tics and tic-like attacks
• The Telegraph - February 13, 2021 - 'Explosion' of children with tics and Tourette's from lockdown
• The Lancet - February 10, 2021 - Effect of the new SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 on children and young people
• Murdoch Children's Research Institute - December 2020 Inspire e-Newsletter - Parents infected with COVID-19, but children protected. How?
• The Telegraph - December 29, 2020 - How Covid lockdowns are wiping out the gains made by disadvantaged children
• Pursuit, University of Melbourne's multi-media platform - December 3, 2020 - Should schools close during the COVID-19 pandemic?
• The Medical Journal of Australia - November 9, 2020 - COVID-19 and Mental Health: Are We Really All In It Together?
• Herald Sun - September 28, 2020 - Primary schools to re-open as infection rates among children revealed
• The Conversation - 28 Septmeber 2020 - Behind Victoria’s decision to open primary schools to all students: report shows COVID transmission is rare
• Murdoch Children's Research Institute - 25 Septmeber 2020 - REPORT SUMMARY: COVID-19 in Victorian Schools
• The Telegraph - September 21, 2020 - France relaxes Covid rules in schools despite 'exponential' rise in national infections
• Herald Sun - September 19, 2020 - A Covid Lesson To Schools
• The Telegraph - September 10, 2020 - Eight in ten children learned little or nothing during school closures while violence at home doubled, survey finds
• The Telegraph - September 4, 2020 - School carries no greater risk for staff and students than home, major survey concludes
• Trends Wide - September 4, 2020 - Coronavirus: Children’s risk of infection at school ‘extremely low’
• The Telegraph - September 1, 2020 - Children are almost 20 times as likely to die from an injury as from Covid
• Sky News - August 30, 2020 - Veteran principal says more prep students may need to repeat next year
• PAEC Public Hearing - August 25, 2020 - David Limbrick MP questions Victorian Education Minister, James Merlino (video 12m11s)
• Sky News - August 24, 2020 - Coronavirus: Children more likely to catch COVID-19 at home than at school, Public Health England study finds
• The Guardian - August 23, 2020 - Chris Whitty: missing school is a greater risk to children than Covid-19 – video
• The Telegraph - August 22, 2020 - Boris Johnson: failure to reopen schools is not an option
• The Atlantic - August 17, 2020 - What We’ve Stolen From Our Kids
• Sky News - August 16, 2020 - History to 'vindicate Swedish COVID-19 strategy'
• The Lancet - August 3, 2020 - Finding a path to reopen schools during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Reuters - July 16, 2020 - Sweden's health agency says open schools did not spur pandemic spread among children
• The Australian - July 8, 2020 - Coronavirus: Rules on Victorian school classes are ‘back to front’
• Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health - June 17, 2020 - 1,500* paediatricians sign open letter to Prime Minister urging Government to make reopening of schools a priority
• UK Children's Commissioner - June 15, 2020 - How the Covid-19 crisis has affected children’s right to an education
• Politico - June 11, 2020 - Early school reopenings quell virus concerns (for most)
• The Medical Journal of Australia - June 10, 2020 - Mental health of people in Australia in the first month of COVID-19 restrictions: a national survey
• Daily Mail Australia - May 31, 2020 - Norway's PM admits she panicked and closed all schools and nurseries 'out of fear'
• The Age - May 30, 2020 - Keilor student positive
• The Age - May 30, 2020 - Schools are safe, Sutton declares
• Sydney Morning Herald - May 29, 2020 - COVID-19 infection sources a mystery for NSW health authorities
• Reuters - May 28, 2020 - Reopening schools in Denmark did not worsen outbreak, data shows
• The Guardian Australia - May 18, 2020 - Schools reopening has not triggered rise in Covid-19 cases, EU ministers told
• The Age - April 28, 2020 - Schools safe to open for all students, experts say
• Sunday Age - April 26, 2020 - Schools debate a bonfire of pre-existing passions
• Channel 9, Today Show - April 24, 2020 - A school in Victoria is planning to defy the advice of health authorities by starting face-to-face teaching early. (video 4m54s)
• ABC Afternoon Briefing with Patricia Karvelas - April 23, 2020 - Federal Education Minister, Dan Tehan, endorses Fitzroy Community School opening during Covid19 pandemic (video 1m46s)
• ABC Radio, Melbourne Drive with Rafael Epstein - April 23, 2020 - Comment on opening Fitzroy Community School during Covid-19 pandemic (audio 2m24s)
• ABC Radio, Melbourne Drive with Rafael Epstein - April 23, 2020 - Principal defies Victorian health advice and opens up classrooms (audio 7m06s)
• Herald Sun - April 23, 2020 - 'Reckless' Head Defends Decision
• SBS News - April 15, 2020 - Prime Minister Scott Morrison has thanked Australian teachers as he calls on them to keep classrooms operating with students preparing to start term two.
• SBS News - April 13, 2020 - An infectious disease expert is urging that schools reopen for the next school term.
• SBS News - March 17, 2020 - Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews insists closing all schools in the state to prevent the spread of coronavirus could do more harm than good.

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