The school has spent the last few weeks preparing to go online following the implementation of stage three restrictions and the Victorian Premier's announcement last Tuesday that students will be encouraged to study from home where they can.

Principal Carmel Barker said staff had spent the holidays fine tuning their strategy for digital learning.

"We feel ready to jump online as soon as term starts," she said.

"We've put in a lot of work into it over the holiday and staff are ready to go online Wednesday of next week."

The school is also seeking to minimise disruption to teaching staff.

"We're trying to run the timetables for most subjects as normal and that gets a good spread across the day and the number of subjects," Ms Barker said.

"We know that won't work for every family so we'll have to be flexible in how we operate."

The school has a plan for students who have poor or no internet connections at homes, too, which will involve a sort of learning by correspondence approach.

"Families with poor or no internet connections were asked to register and we sent (study) notes out ahead of the holidays for them," Ms Barker said.

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"That will continue on an ongoing basis. We will be following that up again in a few weeks when we need to update the information."

For those students who will be attending the school in person, social distancing measures will apply.

"We're hoping very few attend - we're all in self-isolation so you don't want to break that, obviously," Ms Barker said.

"But there will be some. I'm already getting feedback from parents about being essential workers but I'm hoping to have a skeleton staff.

"The idea of keeping it clean and sanitised, with good distances between them will help manage that while also supporting students and parents.

"We believe it will be manageable."

Ms Barker said parents and staff had gone "above and beyond" in their support of the school and of the students throughout the COVID-19 crisis.

"I really have to credit our staff - they've been nothing short of brilliant," she said.

"I keep calling for volunteers for this and that and they just keep putting their hands up.

"The parents have been so supportive as well. The feedback is so supportive and reassuring about what we're all trying to do together.

"If there's anything positive to come out of this, it's how supportive everyone has been."

Ms Barker said it was too early to discuss what arrangements will be put in place for year 12 students doing exams but further announcements are expected from the state government as the situation evolves.

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