1. In-school classes resume (near normal operations with health measures)
2. In-school classes partially resume (with additional health measures)
3. At home learning continues (in-school classes are cancelled)

• We will have enhanced infection prevention and control measures in place, including hand washing and additional cleaning throughout the building.
• We will encourage strict hygiene and cough etiquette for students and staff.
• Unless we hear otherwise from Alberta Health, masks will be optional for both students and staff.
• We will have a zero tolerance policy for illness, for students and staff. We do not plan to take temperature checks for staff and students everyday, rather we will ask for parents’ help to check children’s temperatures at home every day before they come to school.
• The school will be required to keep records of known pre-existing conditions among students. Guidance from the government says “if a child develops symptoms that could be caused by either COVID-19 or by a known pre-existing condition (ie: allergies), the child should be tested for COVID-19 to confirm that is not the source of their symptoms before entering or returning to school.” We are working on the specifics of how this will work in practice.

• We will have physical separation and traffic-flow mechanisms to help maintain physical distancing in hallways.
• We will have spacing between desks to maximize physical distancing.
• We will have new protocols for recess and lunch; these are in development.
• Students will be assigned specific doors for entry and exit.
• We will require a ‘no sharing’ policy for school supplies, whenever possible; shared equipment will be wiped down between each use.
• We will modify drop-off & pick-up procedures, and are exploring an app to help decrease crowding at dismissal, while at the same time increasing student safety and managing line-ups at pick-up time.

• In addition to the measures above, we are planning for the possibility, as per documentation from the Province that “students would be divided into two groups to go back to in-school class on an alternating schedule, where not all students are in classes at school at the same time.” There are many logistical pieces to this that we are working through. However, we plan to ensure that siblings would come to the school on the same days; a possible exception is Kindergarten which works on a different schedule.

• For scenario 2, we are exploring a move to alternating half-day schedules for Kindergarten. This would allow these students as much time in school as possible when the school has to operate at half-capacity.
• In Elementary, we are considering changes to ensure students have core subjects everyday - Math, Language Arts, Social and Science.
• Junior High will change from a 6-day schedule to a 5-day schedule.
• We cannot confirm yet how group activities and classes will be handled, where interaction and close physical proximity are usually part of the experience - including PE, Music, Band, Drama, group work, Christmas concert, field trips, and more. Some of these may be directed by the Province, some we may have the opportunity to determine at a school level.
• We are looking at different ways to provide option classes in all three scenarios, including Health. 

• We expect that student assessment will continue without interruption regardless of which scenario we must pursue.
• We are looking at creative and effective ways to support learning for scenario 2, when some students are at home and others are at school. 
• All of these changes will be significant for students and staff to adjust to - and we want to be proactive, to support strong mental health, especially in the transition back to in-person classes. We will have more on this in August.