A Day at School
Step into a student's shoes for a day!
Getting on the bus:
Put on a mask (from home) and use provided hand sanitizer before boarding. There will be a limited number of disposable masks available if you don't have one.
You will sit in your family groups, in assigned seats.
You will use hand sanitizer when you leave the bus.
Busses will be fogged and sanitized upon returning to school.
Driving/Riding/Walking:
Classrooms will not be open to students until 7:45 am, unless prior arrangements are made.
If you arrive early, you may sit in the Commons (older students only, please!) until 7:45.
You will need to wipe down your table (with provided equipment) when you leave.
If you can't do this, you will need to notify an adult so that your table can be made ready for breakfast.
You will put on your mask before entering the building. Use hand sanitizer provided at the door.
All students will go directly to their classroom. They can drop items off at their locker on the way.
Breakfast:
If you ate at home, you will stay in your classroom until school begins.
If you are eating school breakfast, you will do one of the following, depending on your grade:
K-2: At 7:53, you will go to the Commons with an aide to eat breakfast in your grade level groups. You will return to class by 8:20.
3-5: 7:45-7:55: As soon as you are finished with your locker and checked in with your teacher, you will walk to the Commons to eat breakfast in your grade-level group. You will return to class by 8:15. Grab and Go breakfast may be made available to these students if needed.
6-12: Grab and Go breakfast will be available from 7:30-7:55. You can get breakfast and take it back to eat in your classroom.
Class Routine:
Elementary students:
Your teacher will give you lots and lots of breaks from wearing your mask. If you are working at your desk, go outside, or they feel you are socially distanced enough from your classmates, you will take it off!
Your teacher will establish a restroom and hand washing/sanitizing routine. Because you do not change desks, you may sanitize between subjects or when you leave your desk and return.
Your teacher will work to make your desk as far apart from other students as possible, with everyone facing the same way.
Your desk will be disinfected while you are at lunch and after school. Your teacher may even do it themselves throughout the day as well.
You will only use your own supplies, so make sure they are ready to go in your desk or pencil box!
Art, Guidance, and Music will all come to your room.
There will be some picnic tables/outdoor classrooms for students to take their work outside for fresh air and a mask break!
Middle/High School students:
Your teacher will give you lots and lots of breaks from wearing your mask. If you are working at your desk, go outside, or they feel you are socially distanced enough from your classmates, you will take it off!
You will only get to go to your locker before school, at a scheduled time during Hawktime, and after school. This means you will have to have your morning and/or afternoon books, chromebook, and everything else with you. You can use a backpack, but please make sure it is properly stored in a safe place (your teacher will tell you where) during class. Keep desk aisles clear and safe from trip hazards!
At the end of each class period, your teacher will spray down your desk with a disinfectant that has a 3 minute drying time. As the bell rings and you move on to your next class, the disinfectant will dry and the desk will be ready for the next student!
When the bell rings, you wear your mask and will move in a clock-wise rotation in the hallways that surround the library. Don't worry! There will be directional arrows marked on the floor. This helps reduce exposure and will be an expectation for all when the hallways are busy. If your class is NOT in one of these hallways, you will stay on the right side (like a car on the road!).
Your teacher may allow bottle refills, restroom breaks, and other neccessities during noninstructional time.
There will be some picnic tables/outdoor classroom space for students to take their work outside for fresh air and a mask break!
Lunch:
Teachers will walk you to the Commons.
You will sit in grade-level groups at tables, spread out to ensure a safe eating space (Most likely 4-6 to a table, depending on its size). These groups will remain the same each day for an extended amount of time.
You will be released to get in lunch line by table (in order to ensure a short, spread out line). You will be wearing a mask as you get your lunch.
You will use hand sanitizer before entering the kitchen.
When you reach the kitchen, you will verbally say your lunch number (not touch the keypad) and be given wrapped silverware and milk.
As you move through the line, all food items will be served onto your tray.
There will be a number of picnic tables set up outside for you to eat. Your lunch monitor will let you know when you have that as an option--it may be your choice or allowed by grade/table groups, depending on age group.
End of Day Release:
Drivers/Riders/Walkers (MS/HS and any elementary siblings) and those in sports: You will be released at 3:25 to get your things from your locker and leave school. There can be no loitering, as we are trying to gradually release students from school in an effort to reduce number of students in hallways at the end of the day.
Elementary: Release begins at 3:20
Walkers/Picked up students: While the weather holds, you will wait in the courtyard for your parent/guardian/caregiver.
Bus Riders:
Your teacher will release you on a schedule, boarding by grade from different doors throughout the elementary building.
Put on a mask (from home) and use provided hand sanitizer before boarding. There will be a limited number of disposable masks available if you don't have one.
You will sit in your family groups, in assigned seats.
You will use hand sanitizer when you leave the bus.
Busses will be fogged and sanitized upon returning to school.