It comes after the Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced yesterday school holidays will be brought forward to Tuesday to tackle the spread of COVID-19.
“While parents can decide, my advice is children should come to school tomorrow,” Ms Simson said yesterday.
“It will be open.
“It will give us the opportunity to send more work home, and more information for parents via the children.”
Ms Simson said the only information she had about the early closure was from the Premier's announcement yesterday, and was expecting specific information to be provided by the state government this morning.
She said the school would mainly use Compass to communicate with parents throughout the school holidays, as the situation unfolded.
The school will also regularly update the GSSC Facebook page, and the official school website.
She said teachers had been working hard on establishing methods to provide "remote learning", including a new software called Teams, which would allow students to join a "live" class from home.
Ms Simson said Compass and Teams would be available for the start of next term if students were required to learn from home.
“If students have to learn from home, the curriculum will involve a combination of written work, work up on Compass, and what we can do on Teams,” she said.
She said reports are being posted on Compass and will be ready for the start of next term.
On Thursday, Victorian Education Minister James Merlino announced the launch of Learning from Home, a website providing curriculum-based resources for early childhood services, primary and secondary school students which was developed in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
In a statement yesterday, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said all non-essential activity would cease in the state over the coming 48 hours.
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