Peirce Update
December 17, 2021
Peirce Community,
Winter Break give us all an opportunity to pause our busy lives and reflect on the year. I hope that you enjoy spending time with family and friends over the next two weeks (while following appropriate COVID protocols). I thank each of you for your support of our students, our staff and each other. The last two years have taken us through trying times, yet we continue to come together in order to create a supportive environment for our students.
The Peirce Leadership team wishes you a wonderful holiday season!
Lori Zaimi
Principal
If you received notifications for overdue books and do not have those books, please reach out to Sandra Leander at
smleander@cps.edu.
Vaccination Clinic at Peirce
In coordination with Alderman Osterman and the Office of Health and Wellness, Peirce will host a vaccination clinic at Peirce on Tuesday, January 11th.
For Appointments:
Visit: https://getvaxchi.chicago.gov/s/
Appointment Registration Steps:
1. Create a GetVaxChi Account – click “Not a user? Register here”
2. Click “Schedule A Vaccination”
3. Click the drop-down menu and select “Routine Vaccination 2021”
4. Answer Health Screening questions, then click “Next”
5. Change “Search start on” date to Jan 11, 2022 and enter 60660 in “Zip Code”
6. Look for Peirce Elementary School (COVID Pfizer) and select the appropriate time for your appointment
7. Input your Personal Health Information and Consent in the next tabs and submit your registration for proper confirmation via email
*Walk-ins accepted while supplies last.
As children become fully vaccinated, please submit proof of vaccination
here. Proof of vaccination will be updated in Aspen and be used when we are tasked with quarantining classrooms. Please note that children are not considered fully vaccinated until they are two weeks post the 2nd dose of the vaccine. If you have not yet scheduled an appointment for vaccination, you can
check this site for vaccine availability.
Fee Based After School Opportunities
Youth Alliance Yoga
YAY will run their winter fee based program at Peirce on Thursdays from January 6th through April 9th from 3:15 - 4:15pm. See the attached flyer for information on registration.
American Eagle Productions
American Eagle Productions will run their fee based program at Peirce on Mondays from January 3rd through March 21st from 3:00 - 4:00pm. See the attached flyer for information on registration.
School of Rock- Rock Camp
The School of Rock will be running a Rock Camp from Dec 27th to 31st. See the attached flyer for information on registration.
Free Virtual Ballet Class
See the flyer attached for a free virtual class option for dancers.
From Cirques Experience
Start your child's New Year off with a fun and unique after school experience! CirquesExperience offers daily after school programming including pick up from Peirce School. Registration for the upcoming session is open now! Click on this link for more information and to register:
https://www.cirquesexperience.org/cirquesexperience-afterschool-programs
Click on the link below for a quick look at us in action!
https://fb.watch/9R_iqFZk3m/
Happy Holidays from CirquesExperience!
Incident Reporting & Suggestion Box
Incident Report Form
Peirce School works to provide an equitable, inclusive, safe, supportive, and secure learning and working environment that is free from discrimination, harassment, sexual harassment, sexual misconduct, and retaliation, ensuring that all students, faculty, staff, vendors, and visitors can thrive.
This form is a tool for students, families, staff and community members to report incidents of harm in our school community. Information collected will help us identify issues, develop a plan of support, plan of action and improve steps we are taking to encourage self advocacy.
If you do not feel comfortable sharing your information in this form, please reach out to any member of our staff/school community so that we can respond to the concern you have.
Lets continue to work together to make this community safe for all of our stakeholders.
Question & Suggestion Box
Please use this form to let us know what is working well and/or what needs improvement at Peirce School. You may submit your comments anonymously, or leave your name and contact information if you would like us to follow up with you. Thanks!
Information gathered from both forms are received by the schools principal.
COVID Case Update
There have been a total of 14 classrooms quarantined this school year and 17 reported cases of COVID at Peirce, 14 of which were actionable. CPS has released an updated district data monitoring tool that can be found here.
COVID Testing
Shannon Jiamachello, Resident Principal, is coordinating COVID testing at Peirce and is in collaboration with CPS. You can reach out to Shannon with questions related to testing by email at sljiamachell@cps.edu.
If you have not yet signed up your child for testing you can do so by either:
- Complete the COVID-19 Testing Consent Form that was emailed to all parents and guardians from CPSnoreply@cps.edu on Friday, August 27, 2021 if you want your child tested.
- If you did not receive the email from CPS, you can complete the paper version and return to your child's teacher.
Click here for the online registration form
Click here for the FAQ Guide on Testing
Updated Sick Student Protocol
CPS made the following update to the Sick Student Protocol:
Under new ISBE guidance, if the sick individual is tested within 24 hours of symptom onset, siblings/household members do not need to be sent home unless there is high suspicion the sick person has COVID-19.
Examples where ”high suspicion” exists = sick individual is a known close contact or loss of taste or smell.
Siblings/household members can remain in school and must wear masks both indoors and outdoors.
If the sick individual tests positive, unvaccinated siblings/household members should be sent home immediately.
If testing doesn’t occur within 24 hours of symptom onset, unvaccinated siblings/household members must be sent home until the sick individual has test results.
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If your child is sick with any COVID-19 Symptoms please do the following:
Call your child's healthcare provider and get the child tested for COVID-19. Your child should stay home while waiting for results. If you are unable to get your child tested, your child must stay home until they are symptom-free without medication for 24 hours.
- If the child is negative student should stay home until...
- Illness is over
- Symptoms have steadily improved
- Fever-free for 24hrs without medication
- No uncontrollable cough
- No vomiting or diarrhea for 24hrs
- If a child is positive
- COVID-19 case must isolate for 10 days from the start of illness; non fully vaccinated household members must Quarantine 14 days (from date of last contact or end of case’s isolation)
- ** CPS Cases should SELF-REPORT to cps.edu/covidresults. Parents or guardians report on behalf of their own children.
Please be reminded that all students, staff and visitors to the school campus should wear masks while on school grounds. Students and staff wear masks at all times when they are indoors, unless eating. Students are able to remove their masks during breakfast and lunchtime.
Students can also remove their masks outdoors when they are able to maintain at least 3 feet of social distancing and are within their same cohort. Please know that there are few instances when this is applicable, therefore, many students will keep their mask on the duration of the day.
Winter Break from December 20th - 31st
Classes resume on Monday, January 3rd
January
3rd Students return from Winter Break
11th Bilingual Advisory Council Meeting, 5:00pm
11th Friends of Peirce Meeting, 6:30pm
14th Peirce Service Organization Meeting, 8:15am
17th No School - Martin Luther King Day
20th Local School Council Meeting, 6:00pm
21st PYP Behind the Scenes Meeting, 1:00pm
27th End of Quarter 2
28th No School for Students
Helen C. Peirce School of International Studies
