Sandpiper - Spring Reopening Plan
Updated - February 22, 2021
Dear Sandpiper Families,
The intent of this document is to share the most important and commonly requested/shared information regarding re-opening on February 16, 2021. If you have a question that is not answered in this document, please don't hesitate to email me at jkinneyalcazar@pvlearners.net or to call Sandpiper at 602-449-6300.
If there are future changes to this information, I will send an updated newsletter with a new date on the banner above.
Respectfully,
Jessie Kinney-Alcazar
Principal
SANDPIPER MAP - DROP OFF AND PICK UP
MORNING DROP-OFF PROCEDURES
Afternoon Pick Up Procedures
INSIDE THE CLASSROOM
In-Person Learning
Assigned seats will be required to ensure students are limiting their interactions with others as well as to help with contact tracing.
Cloth masks will be required at all times while on campus including outside (per district mandate). A face shield is optional, but would be in addition to the cloth mask. Masks will be worn inside and outside at all times unless eating and distanced. Distance between students will be maximized (6 feet apart when possible).
Sharing of materials, supplies, textbooks, and technology will be eliminated as much as possible. Parents must supply student(s) with the necessary daily supplies as indicated by the classroom teacher (Ex: crayons, pencils, notebooks, scissors, glue sticks, markers, rulers, etc.).
Eating in the classrooms will be prohibited, unless it is a designated snack time, but snack time can take place outside as well if the teacher chooses.
Backpacks, lunchboxes, and jackets need to stay at the students’ desks; no shared bins for lunches.
Carpet/rug time will be prohibited due to the inability to adequately sanitize or socially distance.
Students and staff will be required to sanitize hands when entering a room.
If manipulatives are utilized as part of a station, they will be sanitized between use.
Volunteers will not be allowed in the classrooms.
There will be frequent sanitizing, especially prior to transitioning away from classrooms.
If a classroom has only tables, students should be seated facing the same direction or as far apart as possible, limiting the number of students at each table (see photos below).
Students need to bring their own water bottle clearly labeled with their name.
When pulling small groups, staff will attempt to maintain distance as much as possible.
Students will stay within their classroom cohort as much as possible.
Areas used for pull-out services will be sanitized between use. (Resource, Gifted, Speech, Reading, Special Areas, etc.)
Students pulled out for reading intervention, special education services, gifted, or any other reason will be distanced from others as much as possible.
PVConnect Instructional Time
PVConnect Guidelines
It is important that students understand their responsibility as learners to engage in their classrooms each day. In addition, they are responsible for the same regulations as listed in the building Code of Conduct. This includes appropriate online behavior within the learning platform.
Students and families are required to adhere to the PVConnect model with expectations as if they were in the classroom from 8:55 through dismissal. Students are held to the same standard of dress and conduct as the students attending in-person classes.
Students must have their camera on during the PVConnect model. Unless parents have sent a written note to the teacher, this is a school-wide expectation.
Special Area Classes
Students will travel to specials as a class when student class size numbers permit.
Special entrance and exit routes have been established to reduce the amount of time students are waiting in the same area.
The use of shared resources will be limited. Shared resources will be cleaned/sanitized between classes.
Surface areas will be cleaned and sanitized between each class. Time has been built into the day to allow for this.
Band and Strings: Students will not share mouthpieces and instruments will be wiped down between classes. The sharing of instruments is discouraged.
Vocal Music: Students will be seated following social distancing to the greatest extent possible, all facing the same direction.
Students will bring their own basic materials to specials as necessary.
During high-heat days or rainy days, PE will be held in the classroom.
LUNCH and RECESS
Lunch Procedures
- BREAKFAST AND LUNCHES WILL BE FREE THIS ACADEMIC YEAR
- STUDENTS MAY BRING THEIR OWN LUNCH.
Classes will have 20 minutes to eat lunch. Some will eat first before being dismissed to go outside to play. Other classes will play before they eat, allowing us to maintain more opportunities for social distancing.
Hand washing will take place at the hand washing station outside the cafeteria before entering (see photo below).
Each homeroom class will sit together in assigned rows and seats; tables will be labeled to facilitate assigned seating. Students will be sitting by the person they sit next to in class (see photo below).
Students will wear their masks until seated and eating.
Custodian will disinfect/clean between each grade level.
There are only two students per bench. All tables will face the same direction (see photo below).
There is only one grade level at a time seated in the cafeteria to eat.
No visitors will be allowed during lunch.
Recess Procedures
Students will use hand sanitizer after lunch on the way to the playground and will sanitize hands before returning to class.
Only one grade level at a time will be allowed on the playground.
Masks must remain on at recess.
A bag containing playground balls and jump ropes will be available for each grade level and will be cleaned/sanitized after use.
There will be no contact sports at recess (soccer, basketball, football). Students will be permitted to play catch with a football or shoot baskets with a basketball, but there will be no active games with teams.
Sports equipment from home, such as toys and balls, will not be permitted until further notice. If/when permitted, the equipment must stay at school as a donation to the class and must remain at school to be cleaned/sanitized.
Heat advisory/rainy day recess will take place in the media center.
No visitors will be allowed during recess.
Health
- Fever of 100.4 degrees or higher
- Chills
- Cough
- Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
- New loss of taste or smell
- Sore throat
- Muscle or body aches
- Headache
- Congestion or runny nose
- Nausea or vomiting
- Diarrhea
Final Selection Survey
- If you completed the recent survey and are happy with your selection - NO FURTHER ACTION IS NEEDED.
- PLEASE REMEMBER THAT PARENTS MAY CHANGE THEIR CHILDREN'S LEARNING MODALITY ONLY ONCE THIS SPRING. If there are questions please contact the Sandpiper Office.