Dear SCS School Families,
This week brought continued blessings for our community in the form of escaping the chaos of Hurricane Sally and looking forward to the eased restrictions Phase 3 promises.
Last week the governor gave our state the green light to move into Phase 3 with certain limitations. Phase 3 allows for certain practices within our school day to loosen. So, the following changes will start next week:
- Students will mix into groups of 50 for lunch, recess and PE.
- The cafeteria will be split into two sections allowing for one grade level (two sets of 50 students) to eat in the cafeteria each lunch period.
- Parents whose child is participating in Mass can now join us, but will need to sit in the choir loft.
- There will be limited before and after-school (while students are NOT on campus), in-person parent meetings determined on a case by case basis.
- Next week dance, cheer and volleyball will begin to practice following all established protocols. These teams were selected before the school year started and will only be practicing at this point.
- The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts will begin to hold meetings.
- Intramural flag football teams will be offered after school for boys in grades 4-7. This is not the official flag football team as that season is postponed and we are unsure if it will proceed this school year. If we are able to have a competitive flag football team, we will hold tryouts at that time.
- The tennis teams and lacrosse teams will begin the sign up process in the next few weeks. (Look for more information from your Athletic Directors.)
Please remember, if a member of your child’s team is diagnosed with COVID-19, the entire team will need to quarantine.
If Phase 3 continues, we will look into assigning lockers to middle school students, so that they can start switching classes. However, a schedule will need to be created as to ensure students are not mixing static groupings. We will be opening the concession stand next Thursday, September 24 for middle school students.
At this time, we are not offering before and after care as we want to ensure that we are not moved back into Phase 2 and would have to shut down. This would be even more difficult on parents which we want to avoid.
We continue to be grateful as a community as we look forward to eased restrictions and thank God that we were spared the damage caused by Hurricane Sally. Please join me in praying for the full recovery of all those in her path.
Yours in Christ,
