CPS Weekly Parent Update
Week of November 30, 2020
Travel Order Reminder
Welcome back! We hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving break. As a reminder, if families traveled out of state, the MA travel order is in effect for students to either quarantine for 14 days before returning to school or receive a negative Covid-19 test result.
Video Version of CPS Parent Update for 11/30/20
Thank you,
CPS Admin Team
Michael Horton, Adriene Lombardi, Tracy Mailloux
Holiday Travel
As of 11/30/20, only Hawaii is considered a 'low risk' state.
Grades and Athletic Eligibility
Another layer: Athletic Eligibility
CPS students may not fail ANY subject for a trimester to be eligible for CPS winter sports: Basketball, Ice Hockey, Swimming & Diving. One F on a report card will make a student athlete ineligible to participate in team GAMES for the winter. Students may still practice with their teammates, and are encouraged to do so.
An F is a final trimester average below 60% for the trimester.
Winter Sports begin on 12/14 and any student ineligible from a report card distributed on 12/18 will not have another chance to earn eligibility until the end of trimester 2 in March 2021, essentially missing the entire winter sports season. Students may appeal to the CPS principal by proposing an academic probation plan.
2020 Sound Bites Awards - PSA First Place to Nantucket Students
Outdoor Learning
Waiting for Front Doors to Open at 7:45am
Remoting In...
Accessing ASPEN or SCHOOLOGY...
GRADES 7 & 8: ASPEN
Once in ASPEN, please go to the ACADEMICS tab and under the CLASSES side tab, click the course you would like to view under 'description'.
GRADE 6: Schoology
For parents of 6th graders, please contact Michael Horton if you are having trouble logging into SCHOOLOGY to view grades:
Contact Tracing Procedure
1) Teachers of the Covid positive student are asked for seating charts.
2) Teachers of the student are asked to report if anyone in their class was in close contact* with anyone else while in their class.
3) Anyone who is determined close contact will be contacted by Sara Brooks and will be encouraged to get a Covid test.
4) Regardless of the test result, that student or staff member must quarantine out of the school building for 14 days.
5) Further information will be provided through a letter from the Superintendent.
*The NEW CDC close contact definition is defined as being within 6 feet of a Covid positive person for more than 15 minutes. The 15 minutes is cumulative for the day and it does not matter whether wearing a mask or not.
The name of the Covid positive school community member (staff or student) is not released.
When can students remote in?
ABSENT: If a student is absent on the day that they are supposed to be present in-person, they cannot remote in that day. They are marked absent since they are not physically present for their in-person class. This is too last minute and disruptive to class rosters changing on a daily basis.
VACATION/LONG WEEKEND: If a student is going away for a vacation or weekend event early on a Friday, we do not provide remote links. They are also considered absent and must make-up any missed work as has always been the district policy.
QUARANTINE ORDER: If a student is asked to quarantine due to a state travel order or local contact tracing protocol, we can temporarily set-up links for the student to remote-in to their current schedule - without switching their entire schedule since the switch is temporary and finite (10-14 days).
MOVING to COHORT D for LONG TERM: If a family feels that in-person is unsafe, they may request to move their student to Cohort D for all remote links with a remote team of teachers. However, please know that moving back to an in-person Cohort A, B, or C schedule is not a simple switch and the MA DESE is now giving schools up to 6 weeks to make the return transition.
A reminder that if a student is going to be traveling for more than 15 days, they will be withdrawn from school and re-enrolled upon return. No guarantees that they would be returned to their original cohort or 'pod'. This is past practice to deter families from traveling for extended periods of time that would cause their student to miss school. NPS administration recognizes that families are going to travel, we just can't provide remote options and students are going to have to make up work upon return.
If a student is going to miss more than 5 consecutive days for vacation or travel, a parent must schedule a meeting with the principal.
LUNCH MENU - School Lunch FREE for ALL students through June 24, 2021
CPS is under 'Secondary' with the high school menu
Per the US Department of Agriculture, School Lunch will be FREE for ALL students for the rest of the school year.
Breakfasts now available; must pre-order: petersonl@npsk.org
Nantucket Public Schools also offers Breakfast & Lunch for all remote learners. Pick-up available Monday - Friday
9:30am - 11:30am
Location: Right side of Cyrus Peirce Middle School. Drive through gates at school entrance, Food Truck located on the left-hand side of driveway, by the ramp, door 23.
Be Safe, Wear A Mask, Practice Hand Washing & Social Distancing 6 Feet Apart
NO LOCKERS Assigned to Start the Year - BACKPACKS have been donated.
The Nantucket Rotary Club and Sheriff Jim Perelman have joined together to donate backpacks to students who need a backpack to navigate the halls of CPS. Please let me, a teacher, or the front office (Kristen Holdgate) know if your student needs a backpack.
We would also like to consider assigning lockers to students in the next month when the weather gets colder.
Flu Vaccine required of all students before 12/31/20
Nantucket Cottage Hospital is offering the flu vaccine: NCH Link
CPS Attendance Line: 508-228-7283 option 2
Student DROP-OFF and PICK-UP is in the back of CPS
CPS Enrollment Update: 424 (no change since November 23 report)
(+13 since June 23)
One withdrawal pending.
Chromebooks Have Been Reactivated - Verification Still Needed
Parents still need to complete the annual registration form in ASPEN: ASPEN LINK
Here is a video in Spanish to help with annual registration: Annual Registration
Any trouble logging in, please email Kristen Holdgate in the CPS front office:
CPS School Council Parent Members
Pauline Cronin croninp@npsk.org
Jessica Douglas jessicadouglas2145@gmail.com
Kristen Dussault kmd0630@verizon.net
Vanessa Larrabee vanessa.larrabee@gmail.com
Brent Tartamella btartamella@gmail.com
Meghan Washington meg.flaherty.mf@gmail.com
Cyrus Peirce Middle School
Email: hortonm@npsk.org
Website: www.npsk.org
Location: 10 Surfside Road
Phone: (508)228-7283