All students K - 12 and staff are required to wear a face covering on campus based upon Governor Newsom’s executive order.  

Face shields are not allowed under the executive order unless there is a medical exemption. 

No, families can choose the colors of their face masks.  If your student is required to wear a face-covering, any type of cloth face covering is sufficient to wear to school. The face coverings do not need to be purchased from a specific retailer. 

School hours have been slightly modified.  Check campus office for details.
 

At this time, we are not allowing parents and unnecessary visitors on campus.

While attendance has a direct correlation to a child's academic performance, we will be lenient with our absence policy this year.  Timely completion of assigned work and open communication with faculty and staff will be the lenses we look through to help us ensure students are staying current in the program. If your child is ill, please keep them home and let us know.  This is important in keeping our campus healthy.

Elementary:  Students will have access to all assignments and coursework via Google Classroom and have a minimum of two Zoom meetings per week with their teacher.

Jr/Sr High:  Students will have access to all assignments and coursework via Google Classroom and have access to Zoom.  However, students are expected to be on campus.

Yes, we are ready to pivot between remote learning and on-campus learning.  It’s important to remember COVID-19 continues to be a fluid situation and one that requires us to remain flexible and ready to pivot at a moment's notice. We are committed to diligently monitoring guidelines and directives issued by federal, state and local health authorities to ensure we are making the most informed decisions possible.

If you are uncomfortable sending your student to school, contact school administration. It is the expectation that all students be on campus.

Elementary: Yes, Physical Education and recess will continue with new health and safety measures in place on each campus.

 Yes, Grace will continue to offer lunch services while on campus.  All food items will be individually packaged following state and county guidelines.

On the Elementary and Jr/Sr High campuses, drinking fountains have been capped but the touch-less water bottle refill stations are still open. Students and staff are encouraged to use those. 

Yes.

Elementary:  All athletic teams have been put on hold until further notice.

Jr/Sr High:  We will follow all VCPH standards for practices that are allowed to resume.

Choir and band classes have been allowed to practice again under the updated state guidelines.  Talk to your teacher or administrator to go over the precautions taken within each class.

Live performances in front of an audience has been put on hold until state guidelines are updated.  Until then the school is committed to allowing our students to perform in creative venues like zoom or taped performances.

Elementary:  Our music and art class will focus primarily on art first semester.  We will resume music and choir in second semester.

Jr/Sr High:  Choir and Band classes will begin second semester, following all required guidelines.

Elementary:   All clubs have been put on hold until further notice.

Jr/Sr High:  Clubs will meet remotely until further notice.

Elementary & Jr/Sr High:  All off campus field trips have been put on hold until further notice.

 At this time we are proceeding with the expectation that the trip will take place.  We continue to monitor travel and destination restrictions.

All students will receive important education and training about illness prevention, new routines and protocols on campus, and the imperative for all of us to help protect each other by taking steps to prevent disease transmission.  

Our top priority is the health, safety, and well-being of our students, faculty, and staff. The implementation of a combination of increased health and safety strategies allow us to safely return to campus. These strategies include layers of protection, and, when used by all members of our community, they greatly decrease the risk of spreading germs when we are together. These protections include daily health screenings, staying home when sick, the use of face coverings, regular handwashing, sanitizing daily and physical distancing.  

 Items in the classroom will be cleaned after each use by the teacher.  Communal areas such as the lunch tables will be cleaned after each group uses the area.  All cleaners will be in compliance with VCPH and CDPH.

1.   Keep your student home if they are not feeling well.

2.   Teach good hygiene practices. Encourage frequent hand washing and the use of hand sanitizer. Practice coughing and sneezing into elbows. Add daily temperature checks to your routine.  Watch the CDC video.

3.   Maintain preventative health practices. Have your child practice wearing a mask. Continue regular doctor visits. Keep immunizations/physicals current. Encourage and talk to your child about the importance of physical distancing. 

4.   Limit interactions with people outside your immediate household.  The best way to prevent illness is to avoid being exposed to this virus.  

If a person's body temperature is 100.4°F with an oral thermometer or 99.5° with a no-touch thermometer or above, they will not be permitted on campus. All members of our community will be subject to our daily health screenings which includes answering health questions and temperature checks. If anyone develops COVID symptoms while at school, we will move them to an isolated, private location where we'll follow recommended procedures for isolation, notification and contact tracing.  Visit the CDC’s website to learn more – If you are sick.

 A community-based COVID-19 exposure is defined as having occurred when a person has been in close contact (less than 6 feet) for 15 mins or more either at one time or over the course of a day with a person with COVID-19.  A person who is considered to have had close contact, will be referred for testing. 

We have developed specific protocols for notification and contact tracing in the event a student or faculty/staff test positive for COVID-19.  These protocols include: 

• Notification will be sent to our school’s COVID coordinator.
• The area where the affected person was will be closed and sanitized following CDPH guidelines.
• Those who have been in close contact with the positive individual will be notified and be referred for testing.
• Following all HIPPA laws, the identity of the COVID positive individual will not be shared.

We welcome your feedback. 

Elementary:  You can reach out to Jenn Koster, Dean of Academics.

Jr/Sr High:  You can reach out to Summer Martin, Dean of Student Students.  

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