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Before leaving home, staff and children who will access the child care, should self-screen or be screened by a parent or guardian for symptoms each day that they enter the centre using the Alberta Health Daily Checklist.

The child care centre will ask parents if the child is feeling well.

Children under 18, including all students who attend kindergarten through Grade 12 and high school students over 18, must complete the Alberta Health Daily Checklist* for Children under 18 before going to school, child care or other activities.

School staff and visitors must review the Alberta Health Daily Checklist to determine if they may enter a school.

Before leaving home, staff, students and visitors should assess whether they feel well enough to attend school for any reason.

Parents/guardians should assess their children daily for any new signs or symptoms of illness using the Alberta Daily Health Checklist.

If a student or staff member has any of the following core COVID-19 symptoms (new, or worsening and not related to other known causes), they should isolate for 10 days from onset of symptoms, or until symptoms resolve whichever is longer, as per provincial guidelines:

• Fever
• Cough
• Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
• Loss of sense of smell or taste
• Sore throat (adults only)
• Runny nose (adults only)”

**Please note that due to privacy reasons, the school will not check or store this personal medical data.**

Schools should keep records of children’s known pre-existing conditions. If a child develops symptoms that could be caused by either COVID-19 or by a known pre-existing condition (e.g., allergies), the child should be tested at least once for COVID-19 to confirm that it is not the source of their symptoms before entering or returning to school. This will be considered the student’s baseline health.

Written confirmation by a physician that a student or staff member’s symptoms are due to a chronic illness is not necessary. Repeat testing is not indicated unless the nature of the symptom changes (e.g., a chronic cough worsens).

They will be asked to wear a medical mask and be isolated in a separate room.

The parents of students will be contacted for immediate pick up & should follow AHS guidelines.

AHS will not be informing us if there is a positive COVID-19 case in our school and there will be no school-based contact tracing.

We will no longer be reporting daily Covid cases.

• Grade level cohorting for Preschool to Grade 6.

Cohorts will use separate entrances throughout the school to minimize exposure to other cohorts.

Parents and outside visitors are not permitted inside the school building.

Preschool, Kindergarten & Elementary students will eat lunch in their respective classrooms.

Secondary students will eat lunch in the last room they had class in during Period 4.

Students will sanitize their desks before and after lunch.

Students who bring packed lunches must take home all their garbage (wrappers, bags, etc).

No sharing will be allowed.

Lunches will be prepared in individual containers.

Preschool – Grade 6: delivered directly to outside the classrooms.

Secondary students will pick up their hot lunch from a designated area.

Students are required to bring their own cutlery – the school will not provide utensils.

Each after-school activity will be considered their own cohort and will not mingle with others.

Field Trips and intramurals will resume after the February break.

In-person events (i.e. Back to School BBQ and Welcome Café Croissant are cancelled).

Meet the Teacher Nights will be conducted online.

Parent-Teacher Interviews will be conducted online.

Gatherings & assemblies will be online only.

We hope to resume hosting community events in the future.

While our goal is to ensure in-person learning every day, throughout the month of January, we may need to move to remote learning for short periods of time if we experience staffing shortages or significant student absences.

We anticipate these moves to last 10 days, in alignment with the new isolation requirements. We will communicate regularly with the community as we monitor absences at the Lycée.

If an individual student is required to isolate, asynchronous school work will be prepared and given to them on the day following their absence. Teachers may also stream parts of courses and share lesson videos, when needed.

Diploma Exams

• January diploma exams have been cancelled.
• A decision regarding April, June, and August diploma exams will be made later in 2022.
• Diploma exam weighting will be changed temporarily to 10% from 30% for the 2021-2022 school year.

Provincial Achievement Tests (PATs)

• Grade 9 PATs will be delayed to the week of January 20, 2022.

Change rooms will be closed and not accessible. Students should come to school with their Phys-Ed attire.

Climbing activities will resume for students in Kindergarten – Grade 12 under the following measures:

• Students must sanitize their hands before and after the activity.
• The climbing wall will be sanitized regularly.

Elementary students will have art and music in their regular classrooms.

Secondary students will have art and music in the Art and Music rooms.

Students will sanitize their desks at the e​​nd of the class.

Library visits and access will resume normally for Kindergarten to Grade 12 classes.

Sets of books will be prepared and brought to the PS-MS classes.

Grades 7 to 12 students will go back to a rotary timetable (moving classrooms at each bell).

Desks will be sanitized by students at the e​​nd of each class under the teacher’s supervision.

Lockers will be available for Grades 7 to 12 students’ use. Students should maintain social distancing and take all needed materials for the half-day classes at once in their backpacks.

Grade 6 students will stay in the same room and will keep all school materials in their class.

HVAC systems have new filters and increased ventilation.

Air purifiers have been serviced, filters have been changed and they will remain on all day.

Increase the frequency of sanitizing school facilities.

High-touch surfaces & high traffic areas will undergo enhanced cleaning multiple times each day.

Increased hand hygiene will continue to be implemented, including regular use of sanitation stations.

Maintain mandated handwashing at regular intervals.

Lockers will be available for students in Grades 7-12 only.

Lockers will NOT be available for Grade 6 or elementary students.

Social distancing will be encouraged whenever possible.

In circumstances where physical distance is not possible, teachers, staff and students must wear a non-medical face mask to protect one another. See masks section for details.

The school will remain closed to parents and visitors.

Parents and teachers are asked to meet virtually.

The parking lot will be closed daily during drop off and pick up, from 8:15 to 8:45 am and from 3:15 to 3:45 pm.

The Lycée will continue to emphasize students’ mental health and wellbeing.

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