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Students will be allowed to use the equipment within their groups and it will be disinfected after use.
Students will utilize outdoor washing stations and/or classroom sinks and restroom sinks upon arrival, as well as returning from activities. Clocks with a second hand are provided at sinks and students will be taught how to time 30 seconds of washing. Groups returning from outside will use a staggered entry format for both distancing and avoiding overcrowding at sinks stations.
During inclement weather the gym will be divided into sections and used as a playground.
Classrooms
PPE will be used when students are out of their seats. Handwashing will be enforced before and after every transition, and sanitizing will take place as exiting a classroom. Social distancing of 6 feet will be maintained when possible.
There will be no planned intermingling of grades (such as former WIN grouping), with the exception of seventh and eighth grade electives.
The largest class, sixth grade, will be housed in the library room as much as possible to maintain safe distancing. Tech room will be arranged with plexiglass dividers between students who are less than six feet apart. Ultraviolet lights will used at night to sanitize all classrooms and a sign will be placed on the doors, as a precaution to entry.
Transitions
PPE will be required in common areas, during transitions, which will occur with 1 class at a time (staggered) in the hallway. When in the hallways, students will walk single file and distance themselves from others. If the concept of 6 feet is difficult for them to learn, the school will use arms as airplane wings, or swimming noodles, or any other visual means to teach and demonstrate the distance. Upon leaving the classroom desks and surfaces will be sprayed with sanitizer and left to dry.
An alphabetic approach to locker assignments will be utilized to keep students distanced and group siblings.
Food Service
Smaller classes will eat in their classrooms and use trays with covers, which will be delivered. Students will be asked to bring personal water bottles and use the new bottle filling stations as opposed to drinking fountains.
Training Required of Students Six-foot distancing will be demonstrated using numerous tools so students may visualize a six-foot distance. Students will be reminded continually not to share supplies or other items. Students will be grouped for washing stations and trained in appropriate waiting and washing.
Extracurricular
How to safely have extracurricular events was tabled until a committee, chaired by the AD, can address a safe plan for sports and other extracurricular activities.
Busing
Temperatures will be taken by the driver, prior to a child entering the bus. If the child’s temperature is below 100 degrees, they will be allowed to take a distanced seat. PPE will be given to students riding the bus as they enter. The bus will fill first person in the back and continuing, 1 family or person per seat, distancing as is possible. It was decided that at this time, and until further notice, Frontier will not run an afternoon bus to town. Parents will be required to pick up their children unless they are dropped on a regular bus route.
Bus drivers will sanitize the bus after every run.
Communication
Frontier School will use a variety of communication avenues to make known any changes. Such avenues include: phone tree, letters home via the mail, Facebook and website, newspaper, KVCK, JOM Facebook group, as well as any other means that individual teachers may wish to use.
Emergency Plan Levels and Procedures Level A – At a minimum, following the Governor’s guidelines and recommendations, including previously mentioned procedures.
•If “0” active cases of Covid are in Roosevelt County as reported on the state website, the PPE guidelines will be dropped until cases arise again in our county.
•Clear expectations will be consistently followed and enforced.
Level B – If 10-15 active Covid cases are reported in Roosevelt County, per the Governor’s map, Frontier will educate on a yellow/blue weekly schedule.
•Purple/orange week entails entail half of the students assigned to the purple group and the other half assigned to the orange group.
•The purple students will learn from home for a week on distance/paper learning, tuning in to the regular classroom and completing assignments on line, while the orange students learn on campus. Thorough sanitation of school grounds will occur between group weekly rotations.
•The orange students will learn from home on the following week on distance/paper learning, tuning in to the regular classroom and completing assignments on line, while the purple students learn on campus. Thorough sanitation of school grounds will occur between group weekly rotations.
•Families will be grouped in the same color group.
Level C – 1 or more confirmed positive cases in our school
•The entire school will distance/paper learn for 14 days or until there are no confirmed active cases in our school.
•When there are no longer active cases in our school, we return to Level A or B depending on how many active cases are in Roosevelt County.
Level D – multiple active cases in county
•Tabled for discussion in the next board meeting.
Distance Learning
The Frontier School board is allowing parents of students the option to distance learning due to the pandemic. However they must commit to 4½ weeks of home learning at a time, coinciding with midterms and quarters breaks, and sign a contract.
