Dear Families,
Happy New Year! It's been wonderful to reconnect with students this week and get back into the routine of school. While the New Year symbolizes hope, new beginnings, and the prospect of spring, COVID-19 continues to try and keep us from making the progress that we are all ready for. As you saw in the messaging from Beaverton School District this morning, we are implementing some safety measures to address the recent increase in COVID-19 cases.
I encourage you to read the messaging sent this morning at 10:00 a.m. from BSD in its entirety, but I will highlight the changes that are most relevant to us at Nancy Ryles.
Visitors & Volunteers
We are temporarily pausing all visitors and volunteers. No visitors and/or volunteers will be allowed beyond the front office, and not in the front office for more than 15 minutes.
Mask Wearing
In addition to continued mandatory indoor mask use, we are reinstating mandatory masking in outdoor settings, including recess, arrival, and dismissal times.
We are striving to keep things positive inside our school as not to create any more anxiety for students, while also ensuring that the mitigating strategies that we have in place with social distancing, proper mask use, frequent hand washing and sanitizing, staying home when you are not feeling well, and getting vaccinated if your family chooses are done to fidelity.
Parents and guardians, you play a huge role in screening your students at home each morning before sending them to school. If your student is showing any primary symptoms (fever, cough, chills, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, a new loss of taste or smell or any of the symptoms on our Too Sick for School - Keep Ill Students Out of School flyer, your student should stay home. Furthermore, if your student has been in close contact with a positive case outside of school, your student should quarantine for 10 days and/or until your student can be tested 5-7 days after exposure.
Our goal is to keep our school open for in-person learning. We must all work together to allow for this to continue by staying vigilant and working together.
Thank you for your support and partnership, and stay healthy.
Monica Arbow
Principal
