Update on COVID Response

With continued good progress, the COVID-19 Task Force and School Nurse's Office are updating some of Bishop Hendricken's reporting and contact tracing protocols. These changes are aligned with current recommendations from the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) for schools.

Positive Case Reporting

We have transitioned the form previously known as the "Self-Reporting Form" and the "Health Reporting Form" to serve exclusively as a mechanism to report positive cases to the School Nurse's Office. You should no longer use this form to report symptoms of any kind, close contacts, household contacts, or any other scenario. This has been updated on our COVID Response hub on the website, here.

If your son is absent for any illness or other reason, you should report this to the Main Office in the morning.

Community Notifications, No Individual Contact Tracing

For continued transparency, we will still report positive cases to the school community. These notifications, however, will be the only source of case-related communications from Bishop Hendricken. With the lifting of the mask mandate, there will be no individual contact tracing letters sent from the School Nurse's Office. When you receive a notification, you're asked to please review it and monitor your son for symptoms.

Masking For Positive Cases

Positive cases MUST still isolate at home for 5 days. If the positive case plans to return to school on day 6, he/she MUST wear a mask from days 6-10 regardless of vaccination status. If he/she prefers not to wear a mask, the positive case MUST isolate at home for a full 10 days and may return on day 11.

As always, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact the School Nurse's Office or your son's Dean of Students.