Dear Families,
Here is some information for this week:
Covid-19 Update
I hope you are all doing well and staying safe.
· We currently have ONE active case of Covid-19 in our school
Red Zone Designation
Starting on Monday October 19th, the following new measures will be in place at school:
· Students are required to wear masks at all times in the classroom
· They may remove their masks briefly to eat/drink
· If students are brought outside for Physical Education (or another class), students can remove their masks if they are all separated by 2m
· Teachers must remain masked unless they can maintain a 2m distance from all students
· Grade 10 & 11 students will move to a Hybrid Learning Model
· Please refer to the attached letter from the WQSB
Report Card Modifications
· The Ministry has announced that they have made changes to the Basic School Regulations regarding reporting procedures for this year
· Instead of 3 terms, we now are expected to only have 2 terms
· Each term is weighted equally at 50%
· There will NOT be a report card in November
· This has significant impacts on how we gather evidence of student learning and how we structure our evaluations and data collection
· We are working on finalizing our plan and will provide information soon on when the report cards will be issued for term 1
· Please refer to the attached letter from the WQSB
Cafeteria Services
· We continue to experience difficulties with our cafeteria services provider
· We understand that the website link did not work for some of you and there were other glitches as well
· Please know that we are doing our absolute best to work with our provider to solve these problems
· The website link remains: https://sachis.wavenet.ca/
· We strongly recommend that you send your child to school with a lunch until we are able to sort through these issues
· Thank you for your patience
PRIDE!
· The Pride group is meeting again·
We welcome students who are queer or who are allies to come and join the weekly virtual hangouts
· Please have your child email Ms. Jepson (djepson@wqsb.qc.ca) or Ms. Speevak (kspeevak@wqsb.qc.ca) if they would like details on how to join or if they have any questions
· We are also happy to organize a meeting just for parents if we receive requests
· This information/support for parents would be scheduled and run by the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Take care,
Tara Laine
Principal
Symmes Junior High School/D’Arcy McGee High School
819-684-7472 x 437001