If you are planning on leaving Massachusetts during school vacation week, please let us know. All staff and students leaving the state will need to have a negative COVID PCR test or a 10 day quarantine before they can return to school. Please email the school nurse at jrobinson@tewksbury.k12.ma.us to inform her of the dates you will be away and what the plan for return to school is. The link for the Massachusetts COVID Travel Guidelines is below.

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/covid-19-travel-order

As a friendly reminder:

When your child is working at home on a remote day, your child must login to the scheduled meets in order to be marked present. Your child must remain on screen for the entire session. We understand that there may be some extenuating circumstances. Please discuss these with your child's teacher.

As indicated in the recent email to parents from Assistant Superintendent Regan, the district will now be sharing positive COVID-19 case data by school on the new TPS COVID-19 Active Case Dashboard which can be found on the TPS website by clicking on the yellow COVID-19 Resources & Updates banner bar at the top of the home page. The link below will be included in my weekly principal's message to allow for quick access to this dashboard. If a new case does occur at the school, parents or caregivers of any student considered a close contact will be contacted by the nurse.

COVID-19 Dashboard

Tewksbury Public Schools are following all of the Department of Public Health Guidelines regarding travel outside of Massachusetts. If for any reason your Dewing School student has to travel to a high risk state, you must follow the guidelines for testing and quarantine. This is to ensure the health and safety of all Dewing School students and staff. The states that are determined to be low risk can change weekly so you need to keep that in mind in when traveling. These guidelines are located on the Massachusetts DPH COVID -19 website and the low risk states are listed on the link below:

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/covid-19-travel-order#lower-risk-states-

Helpful Resources

CDC website: https://www.mass.gov/flu-facts

Vaccine Finder:https://www.cdc.gov/flu/freeresources/flu-finder-widget.html

Visitors-Please be reminded, at this time, visitors are not permitted inside the building. This is for the health and safety of our students and staff. The only people permitted are staff members, students and approved contractors. If you need to contact the office in person, please come to the main door and ring the bell. A staff member will come out to talk to you and help you.

Late Arrivals-If your child is dropped off to school after 8:45, you must park in an assigned parking spot (not the bus drop off lane) and walk your child to the door. Please ring the bell and wait for a staff member to greet your child in person.

Nurse Dismissals-If your child is dismissed by the nurse, the dismissal area is now through the gym door (last door, closest to the C-wing). The gym is located on the right side of the building as you are facing the building. This is also the parent drop off area. You must call the nurse from your car to inform her of your arrival 97-640-7858 x303

We know that these procedures are different from other years and we appreciate your adherence to them. Every change we make is done to support the health and safety of our community. Thank you.

Please complete one accident/illness form for each child. These forms MUST be updated as information changes. It is very important that we have your contact information on file.

https://forms.gle/S8whB6xPF2ekknQSA

Our School Nurse is Ms. Jill Robinson. Please contact her at the Dewing School 978-640-7858 or by email at jrobinson@tewksbury.k12.ma.us