The Commonwealth Government has announced that non-essential indoor gatherings of more than 100 people is no longer permitted. Non-essential outdoor gatherings of more than 500 people is also prohibited.
This explicitly does not include schools running normal teaching and learning programs.
Outdoor gatherings
The ban on non-essential outdoor gatherings applies to any school event that involves attendance by community members who are not students or staff (where staff includes support staff) and where total attendance will exceed 500. This includes school assemblies and sporting events.
It does not include parent-teacher events unless you expect there to be more than 500 people including community members to be present at any one time.
In schools with more than 500 students, review internal school gatherings and change arrangements for full school assemblies.
Staggered lunch breaks should be introduced where these don’t currently occur. Other large in-school student gatherings and events should be postponed or re-arranged, so multiple smaller events are held.