REOPEN Hazlet School
Here are the guidelines that include health and safety measures we are taking to ensure that returning to school is as safe as possible for students and staff.
Cleaning & Sanitizing Protocols
Frequent and enhanced cleaning and sanitization with increased attention to points of contact, shared equipment and commonly used areas.
Disinfectants will also be available for student and staff use.
High traffic touchpoints will be cleaned on a regular basis throughout the school day. Ie: bathroom taps, flusher, door knobs, etc.
Common touchpoints are being reduced. In the attempt to avoid shared materials and supplies, students, wherever possible, will be issued a chromebook for their own use during the school day. We strongly encourage students who have their own devices to bring them for their own use during the school day.
Students transporting their own tech devices, chromebooks and laptops, will transport the device in a plastic ziploc. Before use the plastic ziploc and device will be sanitized as per division instructions on how to safely sanitize device
Microwaves will not be available for student use.
Twice daily sanitation of desk tops and work areas will be performed in the K-5 classrooms and Grades 6-12 will sanitize their work area after each class or as required
Sanitation or hand washing will occur before and after eating with sanitization of the eating area.
Distance
Floor markings and signs in common areas.
Staggered entry/exit and breaks, cohorting and alternative learning spaces implemented as appropriate to allow for distancing.
Mass gatherings will be limited.
In regards to the washroom, due to the structure of the existing, Grades K-8 will use the Main bathrooms and are limited to 2 persons at a time. Grades 9-12 will use the washrooms in the High School end.
Access to lockers will be planned to avoid gathering of students and to support physical distancing. Students will be assigned a “Locker Group”.
Masks
RECOMMENDED for all staff and students PreK-12.
REQUIRED for all visitors, staff and grades 4-12 students in areas and buses where physical distancing cannot be achieved.
Chinook will provide all students and staff with reusable cloth masks.
Education around the proper wearing and use of masks will be taught to students. Signage is posted to demonstrate the proper use.
Hand Hygiene
Staff and students will practice frequent hand washing and sanitizing.
Hand sanitizer will be placed in common areas and classrooms and outside of each room. Students and staff are required to sanitize hands before entering a classroom or other room, including washrooms. Young students are supervised when using hand sanitizer
Posters with age appropriate graphics will be displayed at each sanitization station.
Lunches will be eaten in homerooms and will be supervised. In the case of the 9/10’s their designated lunch room will be the PAA room. Hand hygiene before and after meal time and snacks will be encouraged and practiced.
Attendance & Illness Policy
Students and staff must stay home if they are sick or have symptoms.
A Covid lead has been designated in the school to work with SHA and Division. A Covid team has been developed for illness in care.
Schools will designate isolation areas for students or staff who become sick while at school. We ask that parents provide a secondary contact in the event a student becomes ill and parents are unable to pick up their child.
In the event that one child goes home sick, members of the same family unit will be monitored
PPE will be supplied and protocols followed in cooperation with SHA.
Division protocol will be followed of a staff and student become ill while attending school
In the event a staff member becomes ill or is absent from school, primary substitute teachers have been assigned to schools
Transportation
Buses will be cleaned and sanitized between each run.
Masks will be required for staff and students on buses with high student numbers.
Bus students will arrive no earlier than 8:45. Only one bus will unload at a time. This will allow for students to follow hand hygiene practice as they enter the building. Students will then move to their homerooms. Town students will arrive at 8:55 as a family unit when possible. Students in K-5 will use the main office doors and Grades 6-12 will use the west facing High School doors. Upon dismissal; Bus students will be dismissed first by bus and town students will be dismissed when the busses have departed.
Parents/caregivers are encouraged to transport children when possible.
Learning Delivery, Instruction & Student Supports
4 learning delivery options are available for students to feel safe and comfortable.
In order to support cohorts, students will remain in their homerooms for instruction, with the exception of P. Ed, PAA, or times when the use of the Science Lab is required for instructional purposes. Teachers will move to the students. Students will be assigned seating in the classroom.
Appropriate supports will be provided for students with intensive needs.
PPE will be supplied and required for staff who need to work closely with students.
Students will not share student materials or supplies. Where possible teachers have created individualized packets of instructional material for their students. Ie: math manipulatives, etc.
Procedures for the return of materials will be implemented. Day planners as we know them will not be used in the traditional fashion
With the exception of textbooks, NO materials/assignments should come back to school
Materials coming from the school will be limited. Hand washing or sanitizing before assembling the materials will be done. Materials will be disinfected as necessary. Materials will be placed in a plastic bag, the plastic bag will be wiped off, and put inside a paper bag where possible.
Limit Non-Essential Visits
What is the purpose of your visit?
· Essential visits only - can their purpose be served without entering the building?
· Deliveries/pick-ups of items can be done at the entrance or a designated door
· Students can come to vehicles or meet parents at the front door if being picked up for an appointment, etc.
COVID screening questions:
· Do you have any symptoms of illness?
· Have you tested positive for COVID-19?
· Have you had close contact with a person who is sick or has COVID-19 in the past 14 days?
· Have you travelled outside of Canada in the past 14 days?
Parents/caregivers and other visitors must call the office from outside the building to be screened for entry or to arrange delivery/pick-up.
Visitors permitted to enter must wear a mask and use hand sanitizer upon entry, sign in and to provide a phone number in the case that contact tracing is needed at some point.
Snacks and Food:
There will be no common food items. Food can be served in individual portions to each child by a designated staff member. Reusable utensils must be cleaned and sanitized after each use
Food from home should not be shared with other students and will be stored with student’s personal belongings.
Students are not allowed to participate in food preparation.
Students must wash/sanitize their hands before and after snacks.
