One of the great things about iCloud is that you can store lots of pictures. One of the bad things about iCloud is that you can store lots of pictures. Here are some tips to help you back up and organize all your thousands of photos without doing too much sifting through memories of Halloween 2017.

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To back up the photos somewhere besides the cloud, open up the Photos app on your Mac. Then open Preferences, and select the iCloud tab. On that page, select “Download originals to this Mac”. That will save all your photos locally to your computer. If you want to add an external hard drive for extra safety, you can use third-party software like Backblaze, or your Mac’s built-in Time Machine function, which will back up the rest of your computer as well. To manually move all the photos over, just plug in your hard drive, open Finder, go to Pictures, and drag the Photos Library over to the new hard drive.

If you’d like to organize your photos so they are easier to navigate, go to iCloud.com and log in with your AppleID. Then select Photos and click the plus sign at the top to create and name a new album. With the new album created, simply select one or multiple photos, and click the plus sign again to select where you’d like to send them.

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School students from kindergarten to year 2 as well as year 11 are expected to be prioritised under the KZN government’s roadmap to return some children to classrooms in term four, but progress could depend on vaccination levels.

The NSW education department and health officials are in detailed negotiations regarding a return to face-to-face learning with the crisis cabinet expected to consider the potential schooling plan on Wednesday afternoon.

Sources close to the negotiations said the government wanted to balance the value of having children who can’t read return to school and the risk that young children, although often asymptomatic, could transmit Covid-19 to their households.

One of the issues being considered is a trigger level of vaccination in the community – and whether that should be 60% or 70% of the adult population. There is also debate about whether different rules should apply for different regions depending on the prevalence of Covid cases.

Regional schools were previously open even when Sydney was in lockdown. A decision on whether to lift some restrictions in regional NSW will need to be made soon as the current lockdown is due to expire at the end of the week. If it is lifted, regional schools should be able to return to face-to-face teaching.

But the possibility of zoning greater Sydney based on vaccination rates, or keeping schools closed in the local government areas of concern only, would raise fairness issues.

The government knows parents of students in years K to 2 are finding the lockdown particularly challenging. It’s even tougher for parents from non-English speaking backgrounds who are expected to teach their children to read and write in English.

At the other end of the spectrum, the premier, Gladys Berejiklian, has said she wants HSC students to sit their exams and on Tuesday the government urged year 11 students in hotspot LGAs to get vaccinated. Year 11 students start their year 12 study in term four in NSW.

As part of a special drive that began on 9 August, the NSW government has so far managed to vaccinate between 15,000 and 16,000 out of a cohort of 22,000 HSC students in the hotspot LGAs – about 72%.

But there are anecdotal reports some schools did not avail themselves of the weeklong drive at Homebush.

The state’s chief health officer, Dr Kerry Chant, urged all eligible 11 and 12s to seek an appointment in the next week.

“This is your opportunity and it will pick up year 11s as well as year 12s, because some of them are 16,” she said on Tuesday.

“Anyone 16 to 39 who live in any of those 12 local government areas, which are densely populated local government areas, are entitled to vaccines. There are bookings available … there are 200,000 bookings available.”

With additional Pfizer shots becoming available in early September, it is possible the government could open up the drive to all 77,000 HSC students.

The NSW Teachers Federation has called on the government to give priority vaccine access to teachers.

The federation’s president, Angelo Gavrielatos, said some teachers were reporting they couldn’t get appointments until late September or October. The government is currently surveying teachers about their vaccination status.

Berejiklian has so far avoided answering whether vaccination should be mandatory for teachers.

“It is better say that in all categories of workers, we have encouraged much of the workforce to get the vaccine,” she said on Tuesday.

“That is for the broader safety of their interactions and the community but I won’t preempt what we will say about schools until later this week. There are conversations with stakeholders and sectors including the independent and Catholic sectors.”

Gavrielatos said: “Mandated vaccination is a distraction. We can talk about that when we get to that stage but let’s focus on access and supply.”

QP School’s Upper Fifth have delivered a record number of A* or equivalent grades** in this year’s IGCSE and GCSE examinations with an outstanding 44.4% of grades awarded the top level A* mark.  Almost half of the year group of 145 pupils have received a fantastic eight A* A grades, or better.

Success has been achieved across all subjects, with the breadth of the School’s offering and the pupils’ interests evident in the subjects which have performed particularly well.  In Religious Studies, Geography and Biology at least 90% of the grades were A*A; in English Language, Chemistry, Physics, Greek and Computer Science the percentage of A*A grades was 80%, or better.

There have been some notable individual performances.  Amelie Goetz, Ed Haselden, Nicolas Heller, Nicholas Kwok, Charlie Lloyd-Jones, Freya Radford, Henry Robinson and Tim Tian are amongst the pupils who achieved at least 10A*s, whilst Lana Davies, William Lithgow and Meg Sellers head up the list with 11A* each.  A further 12 pupils achieved 9A*s.

Like many QP students these pupils are also actively involved in the co-curricular side of school life.  Freya Radford is a keen athlete and was the first girl home in the Routh (QP’s annual mini-marathon), Meg Sellers is a top netballer and hockey player who is also the current Girls’ Open Tennis Champion.  Henry Robinson is a sports scholar and was part of the squad at this summer’s Cape Town International Hockey Festival, whilst Charlie Lloyd-Jones is a member of the Fives team and also one of our thespians – he took a lead role in last year’s performance of Grease.

Lana Davies is in the 1st Sailing Team and an accomplished musician, as is Tim Tian, who is one of the saxophonists in the Jazz Orchestra, and William Lithgow, who sings in the Chapel Choir and is a grade 8 flautist.  Keen designer Nicholas Kwok has been awarded an Arkwright Scholarship and is currently designing the Lorne House baubles ready for sale this Christmas.

Dr Richard Maloney, Headmaster, said, “this year’s results have set the bar very high. Our Upper Fifth pupils have met the challenges of their GCSE courses and excelled. It is such a credit to them and their teachers to see their hard work so unequivocally affirmed.  What is particularly rewarding is the knowledge that QP students enjoy and succeed in activities beyond the classroom: they get involved on the sports field, in the theatre and concert halls, and take on so many different opportunities beyond the curriculum.

We are all looking forward to working with such a talented group of young people as they move forward into the sixth form.”

**This is the first year that Qp Pupils have taken some IGCSE/GCSE examinations which receive the new 9-1 grades, however, of the 23 subjects offered at the School, 15 are still receiving the A*-G grading.  As the majority of the examinations taken this year were graded under the ‘old’ scheme the new numerical grades have been converted to the A*-G equivalent for reporting purposes. In 2019 all examinations will be graded 9-1.