Dear North Reading Parents and Families,
Thank you all for your support during our first full week of school and for your patience as we worked out some of the kinks to the schedules and adjusted between cohorts. From the feedback I have received things seem to be going very well.
A few items for your attention.
1. October 9, 2020 will be a full day of school. This was originally listed as a 1/2 day TBD and we have decided that with the later start to the year it is in the best interest of students and staff to have a full day on October 9th. Our full day Professional Development day for teachers on November 3rd will remain on the calendar as a no school day for students and we will continue to review the upcoming 1/2 days in the future.
2. Below you will find a list of additional school influenza clinics. Thank you to Mr. Bracey and our Town Health Department for making these arrangements. Please note that here are additional clinics listed for the community and parents can always make appointments at CVS, Walmart and Walgreens at any time by visiting their respective website to preregister.
3. Attached to this document are the most recent Department of Elementary and Secondary Education guidance for protocols to respond to COVID-19 Scenarios. This was a part of the reopening plan but it is important for you to be able to review this again as it has been recently updated. Please continue to complete our Daily Health Screener and reach out to our nurses with any questions prior to returning to the bus or school.
The quick reference chart below should be helpful when deciding the steps that need to be taken when staff or students are experiencing symptoms.
| Individual is Symptomic | |||
| Location of Event | Testing Result | Quarantine |
| If an individual is symptomatic at home, they should stay home and get tested.
If an individual student is symptomatic on the bus or at school, they should remain masked and adhere to strict physical distancing. Students will then be met by the nurse and stay in the medical waiting room until they can go home. They should not be sent home on the bus. If an individual staff member is symptomatic at school, they should find coverage for their duties and then go home and get tested. | Individual tests negative | Return to school once 24 hours have passed with no fever and improvement in symptoms, without the use of fever reducing medications. |
Individual tests positive | Remain home (except to get medical care), monitor symptoms, notify the school, notify personal close contacts, assist the school in contact tracing efforts, and answer the call from local board of health or MA Community Tracing Collaborative. Most people who have relatively mild illness will need to stay in self-isolation for at least 10 days and until at least 24 hours have passed with no fever and improvement in other symptoms. | ||
Individual is not tested | Remain home in self-isolation for 10 days from symptom onset, then return once 24 hours have passed with no fever and improvement in symptoms, without the use of fever reducing medications. | ||
| Individual is exposed to COVID-19 positive individual (close contact) |
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If an individual is at home when they learn they were in close contact with an individual who tested positive for COVID-19, they should stay at home and be tested 4 or 5 days after their last exposure.
If an individual is at school when they learn they were in close contact with an individual who tested positive for COVID-19, they should be masked for the remainder of the day (including K-1 students) and adhere to strict physical distancing. At the end of the day, they should go home and should not take the bus home. They should stay at home and be tested 4 or 5 days after their last exposure. | Individual tests negative | Remain home in self-quarantine for 14 days from exposure | |
Individual tests positive | Remain home (except to get medical care), monitor symptoms, notify the school, notify personal close contacts, assist the school in contact tracing efforts, and answer the call from local board of health or MA Community Tracing Collaborative. Most people who have relatively mild illness will need to stay in self-isolation for at least 10 days and until at least 24 hours have passed with no fever and improvement in symptoms, without the use of fever reducing medications. | ||
Individual is not tested | Remain home in self-quarantine for 14 days from exposure |
Thank you,
Dr. Daly
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