Hello Riverside Families,

We are excited to welcome all of our AMAZING Riverside students back to full-time, in-person learning on Tuesday, March 9th. Our goal is to keep our students attending in-person FOREVER. To help guide our decisions in reopening, we are utilizing COVID Mitigation Strategies from the CDC to keep students and staff members as safe as possible. These five strategies include:

• Consistent and Correct use of Masks

• Social Distancing to the Largest Extent Possible (Learning Groups)

• Hand Hygiene and Respiratory Etiquette

• Cleaning and Disinfection

• Contact Tracing in Collaboration with CDH

Social Distancing and Learning Groups

Throughout the school building we have been planning the most effective ways to maintain social distancing and to prevent COVID spread, while lessening the need to quarantine should a member of our school community contract COVID. In doing so, we will continue to maintain 6 feet of social distancing wherever possible. Where this is not possible, we will be organizing students into learning groups, where students will have closer contact with no more than 4 other students while in classrooms, at specials, and while eating lunch. This strategy, recommended by the CDC and utilized by many neighboring school districts, has proven to be effective in achieving our goal of mitigating the risk of COVID transmission while providing in-person instruction 5 days a week to all students. Please read more below about additional in-person learning protocols and expectations.

Take care,

Mr. Anderson

In addition to our social distancing protocols mentioned above, we will continue to implement processes we utilized during our hybrid learning schedule. These proved to be very effective. Please review these with your student(s) as we prepare for March 9th.

• The Riverside campus will open to students at 9:00 am each morning

• No early drop-offs please

• Students will utilize all normal methods of transportation (walk, bike, bus, parent transport)

• The playground will be closed in the morning and students will report to the outside door of their classroom immediately upon arriving at school

• Students will be allowed in their classrooms from 9:00 am - 9:15 am to alleviate congestion, etc

• Face coverings will be required by everyone on school grounds during school hours

• Please wear your mask as soon as you exit your vehicle and/or arrive on campus

• Please label your child’s mask with a name and provide mask lanyard if possible

• Face shields will be utilized only if needed for educational purposes and parents will be notified ahead of time

• Mask breaks will be provided by classroom teachers in a way that allows for social distancing

• School staff and students will be the only ones allowed in the building

• Parent visits to the school will be allowed by appointment only

• Dropping off supplies and picking up students early will take place outside the Main Entrance

• Lunch and recess will be provided on a normal schedule

• Students will remain in their learning groups and/or be socially distanced during lunch

• Mask and mask free areas designated on the playground with limited physical activities

• Please consider packing lunches from home in a disposable packaging

• Water fountains are turned off

• We have water bottle filling stations on campus

• Please send a refillable water bottle from home with your child’s name on it

• We will maintain our staggered dismissal schedule to reduce crowding outside after school

• Kindergarten and 3rd grade dismissal - 3:35 pm

• 1st, 4th and 5th grade dismissal - 3:40 pm

• 2nd and 6 grade dismissal - 3:45 pm