As a supplement to DESE’s Initial Fall School Reopening Guidance, we have also been provided with protocols for responding to specific COVID-19 scenarios, including in school, on the bus, or in community settings.  Click here to read the full guidance for responding to COVID-19 in our schools.

Health and Safety Practices

• Masks/Face coverings

• Students and staff will be required to wear face coverings.  Exceptions will be made for documented medical/behavioral reasons

• Mask breaks will occur throughout the day when students can be greater than six feet apart, ideally when students are outdoors.  

• Hand Hygiene

• Students and staff will be required to wash or sanitize their hands upon arrival to the school, before eating, before putting on and taking off masks, and prior to dismissal.

• Each school will place hand washing and sanitizing visuals throughout the schools to remind students and staff of proper handwashing and hand sanitizing procedures.

• Physical Distancing

• Our goal is to maintain a physical distance of six feet between individuals when possible.

• Desks will be arranged at least six feet apart in classrooms and face the same direction. 

• Screening Staff and Students

• The district will ensure that all families and staff are familiar with the state provided checklist of symptoms

• Families will screen students prior to sending them to school

• Staff will self-screen before reporting to work

• A nurse will be available by phone before the start of school for any questions

• COVID-19 related isolation space

• In order to minimize transmission we have identified an isolated space in every school separate from the nurse’s office for students displaying COVID-19 symptoms until they can be picked up by a family member