Coming Up Roses Newsletter~ January 19th, 2022

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School begins at 8:10AM

School office hours: 7:30AM - 3:30PM

Office closes at 1:00PM on minimum days

Wednesday, January 19th, 2022

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PROGRESS REPORTS GO HOME IN FRIDAY PACKETS

A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRINCIPAL

Dear St. Rose Parents,

Coming off of the excellent Spirit Week with all the children participating and truly happy each day helped steel us for the weekend and its consistent results of COVID positive tests or exposures. As I wrote this on Tuesday afternoon, the hits kept on coming and still are.

In some way or the other, it touches all of us, here at work or in our private lives. It hit home for me when my daughter called and said my three year old granddaughter has COVID. What do I do with that? She’s my precious Bean and the thing I feared most happened. I see students recover quickly or have no symptoms, yet I wanted to feel something other than fear. It seemed that if I could blame or accuse someone, it would help. WRONG! No one is to blame except for COVID. It is time for me and others to look at one another with kindness, compassion, patience, and understanding for each other during these turbulent times. No one is at fault for this. COVID got in, and we have to handle this the best we can and not blame or judge anyone.

Ms. KC and I are grateful for the parents who read all the emails and willingly (no matter how difficult they are) follow all the protocols that CDPH sets up. We do not make them up. We just follow them as directed. Ms. KC’s job at this time has become immense, yet she still has to run the office with all its various responsibilities, and somehow manages to do it all, with grace and care for every one of our families impacted by COVID. She's worked straight through the weekends to manage the situation and keep you well informed. I am so appreciative of your support and kindness towards her.

The way to carry on through this is to turn our fears and frustrations over to God and trust that His grace will carry us through.

Father Michaelraj has graciously allowed me to become the permanent principal for this year and years ahead. I am humbled by his trust in me and will do my very best to live up to it.

Respectfully,

Kathleen Aymar

Principal

CAMPUS SAFETY - 1/19/22 Update

COVID TESTING: Lab PCR tests continue to be the most accurate in detecting COVID, but the CDPH now allows us to accept an FDA approved home rapid test result. If your child is out with the sniffles or a cold, or f you've received one of the 'close contact' emails recently you may already know this. There are certain requirements that must be followed if you are submitting a home test result to the school office.

1 ) Write your child's name, birthdate and date of test on the card

2 ) Take a photo of the card - test result and email to Ms. KC for confirmation before your child can return to campus.

3 ) Follow the directions and timeline that is sent to you if your child is a close contact or needs to isolate at home.

MASKS

We continue seeing high transmission on campus among students and families. CDPH now recommends everyone wear surgical masks instead of cloth. Though a 3 ply cloth mask is still acceptable, surgical, KN95's or N95's are preferred, yet hard to come by. Please discuss with your child how to wear the masks properly while indoors. Masks must fit snuggly, to cover the mouth and nose.

OFFICE

At this time, if you need assistance from Ms. KC in the office, when calling, please leave a voicemail if she can't answer. Your call is important to us, but unfortunately due to the complexity of managing the COVID issues and normal school functions, we can't always answer calls right away. We check messages frequently. If you can leave a message with out a call back, we'd appreciate it. If you really require a call back, we will of course do so as soon as we can. Thank you for your patience.

COVID SYMPTOM CHECK LIST

We realize that anyone can be asymptomatic and unknowingly spread the COVID-19 virus, and no check-list can identify symptoms if there are none. But we do know that some students are still being sent to school with runny noses, coughs, congestion, etc.

We simply can not have students on campus with any cold or flu symptom. Unfortunately right now, there isn't just a 'cold'. Any cold symptom, even allergy symptoms, are COVID until proven other wise.

In the event that your child has been exposed by a family member or someone within their community, sending them to school with even a minor cold symptom means by the time we identify a student with a symptom, they've exposed others.

Please use the COVID Symptom DAILY Check-list, every morning, before getting into the car with your children.

REMINDERS / CLICKS and LINKS

Parent Association

SWAG Store for Parents

Please consider supporting the PA by purchasing some parent swag. Wear your parent swag to school sport events, working out, or just hanging out!

Store will be open NEXT WEEK and will be open until March 1st with orders arriving mid March. Perfect timing for Spring!

ITEMS IN THE SWAG STORE ARE FOR PARENTS ONLY. STUDENTS MAY NOT WEAR PARENT SWAG TO SCHOOL.

VOLUNTEER COMPLIANCE

The Diocese audits all schools twice a year for employee and volunteer Safe Environment compliance. We are required to document all our registered volunteers and explain their status. After 6 months of inactive or expired status, we are required to archive those who have noncompliant status.

2020 was a re-certification year for ALL volunteers and employees.

If you need to get compliant, please call Ms. KC in the school office or email her at: k_paul@sonic.net