Spring 22 COVID Protocols

List of 7 items.

• Virtual Learning

  Individual Virtual Learning (i.e. Campus Open)

  Individual Virtual Learning (some students learning at home while other students are in the classroom) can be a difficult experience for the students at home and at school and is extremely challenging for our teachers. As a result, we will offer limited individual virtual learning while the school is open to in-person learning. Only students who have been asked by Davidson Day to a) quarantine due to COVID-like symptoms or a positive COVID test OR b) due to identification as a close contact will be permitted to learn virtually at home.

   

  School-Wide Virtual Learning (i.e. Campus Closed)

  Although it appears unlikely given the vaccine and other mitigation strategies, there is a possibility that we may need to switch to virtual learning for all students if circumstances require it. This is a last resort. Should it need to happen, though, our teachers proved last year that they could pivot very quickly and offer an exceptional education no matter the circumstances.

• Before School

  To minimize larger group gatherings, Davidson Day will not provide Before School Care. Upon arrival:

   

  • Early childhood and lower school students will report directly to their classroom.
  • Middle school and upper school students will report to the classroom of their first period class.

• Gatherings

  Morning and midday assemblies have been redesigned, and through technology, students will view announcements from their classrooms.

• Lunch

  To minimize larger group gatherings, students will eat lunch in their classrooms or outdoors, weather and space permitting. Hot lunch offerings will still be available for order through the school’s hot lunch program, but we will only offer individually-packaged options. Those lunches will be delivered to each classroom. Individual lunch deliveries will not be permitted due to the restriction of all non-essential visitors to campus. Students will not have access to microwaves in the Commons, so those who bring lunches from home need to bring lunches that do not need to be heated up.

• After School

  After School Care only will be offered to families. Parents will be asked to register students for After School Care, so that we can plan effectively for appropriate staffing and spacing.

• Overnight Trips

  All overnight class trips are suspended for the 21-22 academic year.

• Visitor Guidelines

  Parents, vendors, and other guests are permitted by invitation or appointment only. Visitors will need to fill out a paper screening form at the front desk and adhere to the school's current masking policy at the time of visit.