8/23/21

COVID Guidelines for Illness and Absences

Absences

Any individual – including teachers, staff, students, or other campus visitors/volunteers – who themselves have reported a test-confirmed COVID diagnosis:

• • Parents of test-confirmed COVID students will receive a letter outlining the student’s return to school instructions.

  • Must stay at home throughout the infectious period.

  • May return to school when all three of the following criteria are met:

1. At least one day (24 hours) has passed since recovery (no fever without the use of fever-reducing medications)

2. The individual has improvement in symptoms (e.g. cough, shortness of breath)

3. At least 10 days have passed since symptoms first appeared

Please email your child's teacher and BeckElem@nisdtx.org. Documented absences for positive COVID diagnosis will be excused. Missed schoolwork may be available for pick-up, please coordinate with your child's teacher to arrange that. Student's will not be added to remote learning classrooms, work will be completed independently at home or when the student returns to school.

Please complete the form as this link to report a test-confirmed case of COVID for a student or NISD staff member.

Symptoms

• All students, staff, and visitors must screen themselves for COVID symptoms prior to entering a NISD facility.

• Anyone with a fever of 100 degrees Fahrenheit or higher should not come to school or a NISD facility.

• Students and staff should also prescreen themselves for any of the following symptoms prior to coming to school:

  • Feeling feverish or a measured temperature greater than or equal to 100.0 Fahrenheit

  • Loss of taste or smell

  • Cough

  • Difficulty breathing

  • Shortness of breath

  • Fatigue

  • Headache

  • Chills

  • Sore throat

  • Congestion or runny nose

  • Shaking or exaggerated shivering

  • Significant muscle pain or ache

  • Diarrhea

  • Nausea or vomiting

  • Please refer to ATTENDANCE GUIDELINES available here when deciding whether a student or staff member should attend school

  • For symptoms that persist for 72 hours, please consider having a COVID test

COVID Testing at School

Parents of students who are sent to the clinic for COVID symptoms will have the option to have their student screened for COVID. Parent permission is required. See form HERE.

Notifications

Notification emails will be automatically sent to parents when a positive case is reported in your child's classroom. Letters will not be sent as a whole campus, details regarding positive cases on each campus can be found on the COVID Reporting Website.

To Quarantine or Not to Quarantine

Teachers, staff and students sharing a room with a lab-confirmed COVID case may meet the definition of having close contact with the case. Those receiving this letter will be required to monitor themselves and if they begin to have any COVID symptoms should visit with their doctor and get a COVID test. Similar protocols should apply if there is exposure to a lab-confirmed COVID case in the home or at a non-school event. If there is positive COVID exposure at home, close contact quarantine is encouraged but not mandatory.

Close contact quarantine is not required, but highly encouraged. Attendance guidelines will still apply, however there is allowance for quarantining. Please contact Nurse Davis if you have questions.

Bulldog Blitz Fundraiser Coming Soon!

Our Annual School Fundraiser, The Bulldog Blitz, will be kicking off in mid-September! Beck hosts our own fundraiser each year; hosting our own fundraiser allows us to keep 100% of the funds raised. This year we have some great initiatives we are wanting to move forward with for our students; the main goals will be upgrading our media capabilities in our gym and building an outdoor learning classroom in our courtyard.

The Blitz is a 2 week long fundraiser where students will bring in donations and receive tickets to 'shop' at the Blitz Store. There are many great items to take home the same day a donation is made or opportunities to enter in to a drawing for big items (such as hoverboards or tablets) sponsored by our community partners. All proceeds go directly to our school and are spent directly on items that impact our students!

If you are willing to help be on the Bulldog Blitz Committee or support us with our Bulldog Store, please fill out this form.