Oct. 9, 2020
Dear Chatham Hall Community,
It was wonderful to see many of you out and about on campus last weekend, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for following our new visit processes and protocols. The cooperation that was so evident from all of our students, faculty, staff, and visiting household members made for a great weekend for all!
Looking ahead, we have some updates to our January reopening schedule that we would like to announce now to give all families plenty of time to adjust plans as needed. We learned a great deal as we reopened Chatham Hall in August and we continue to appreciate the feedback, questions, and suggestions from students, faculty, staff, and parents. It continues to shape our thinking and helps us maintain the community that is so important to all of us.
For January, we would like to reduce the staggered campus return after the new year and begin reentry by strongly encouraging families to have their child return to campus via private transportation if at all possible. This minimizes virus exposure for your student and their time in quarantine. Similar to when we returned in August, we expect all students to self-quarantine the week before returning to campus. Also similar to our August return, we will have our students return to campus in two waves. This will be a slight adjustment to our previously published calendar.
Any student that must return via public transportation should arrive back on campus after 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 5. We ask students planning to return via private transportation to arrive after 12:00 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 10. All students will move directly into their dorm rooms, and COVID-19 testing will take place immediately. Students will remain quarantined in their rooms with their roommates until the return of all tests and we anticipate a maximum 48 hour turnaround. Classes will begin as scheduled on Wednesday, Jan. 6 and will be remote until students are able to return to classrooms following testing.
Once again I thank you in advance for your patience and support as we all work through the challenges of this global pandemic.
Esto Perpetua,
