FOX FEATURE WEEKLY UPDATE
March 26, 2021
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ORGANIZATION OF THE FOX FEATURE
- School District Five COVID-19 Dashboard
- COVID-19 Safeguards
- Vaccination & eLearning Dates
- New Season Dress Clothing Check
- Dress Code Reminders
- Reminders
Calendar & Events
- Upcoming Dates
- DFMS Spirit Week
Instruction & Support
- Attendance (Excuse Form)
- Chromebook & Technology
Extracurricular Activities
- C-Team Football Info
- Inaugural Golf Tournament
- Voluntary Weightlifting
- Junior Miss Silver Fox Pageant
- JROTC
- FCA
Additional Announcements
- Substitute Teaching Opportunity
- Cafeteria Information
- Health Cards
- Yearbook
- PTSA Store
SCHOOL & DISTRICT UPDATES AND REMINDERS
SCHOOL DISTRICT FIVE COVID-19 DASHBOARD
Lexington-Richland School District Five has launched a COVID-19 dashboard.
During a special-called meeting on Nov. 30, the Board approved a motion to have the district create a webpage “dashboard” for reporting active COVID-19 positive cases and quarantine cases in schools. The motion requires the district to “Reallocate resources that we currently have to create a weekly data dashboard / website to reflect numbers by school, to include active COVID-19 cases and quarantine numbers for students and staff, separately recording numbers for FIVE (virtual program) teachers and students.”
The dashboard, which will be updated each Friday, can be found on the district website homepage and at the following link: www.lexrich5.org/covid19dashboard. For more information on the district’s COVID-19 response, click the "20-21 COVID-19 Information" tab on our district website or visit www.lexrich5.org/20-21reentry.
COVID-19 SAFEGUARDS
Safety is a top priority. School District Five of Lexington & Richland Counties has worked in collaboration with health officials to establish health protocols for the 2020-21 school year, in response to COVID-19. Students and staff will be asked to complete daily self-screenings before reporting to school/district campuses. District schools will follow DHEC guidance regarding the management of suspected and confirmed COVID-19 cases.
Click the following link to see the district’s self-screening checklist:
Click the following link to see the district’s COVID-19 Exposure Flowchart:
For DHEC guidelines regarding the management of suspected and confirmed COVID-19 cases, click the following link:
View our COVID-19 Communications Guide:
View DHEC's School COVID-19 Report:
https://scdhec.gov/covid-19-cases-associated-staff-students
For more information on health and safety protocols, click the "20-21 COVID-19 Information" tab on our district website or visit www.lexrich5.org/20-21reentry.
VACCINATION & eLEARNING DATES
School District Five of Lexington & Richland Counties is announcing a new partnership with Lexington Medical Center, allowing the district to accelerate its vaccination of staff members.
Vaccinations in the district will occur on Friday, March 26 and Friday, April 16. Phase 1b includes educators (Both FIVE and Face-to-Face), school support staff, student teachers and district substitutes. School District Five is an eLearning district and will utilize eLearning days, in lieu of makeup days, to allow district staff to receive their vaccine.
The district is planning to provide asynchronous learning on these eLearning days. This will include recorded lessons and posted assignments in SeeSaw or Google Classroom.
NEW SEASON CLOTHING CHECK
With the warmer weather, please remember to check your child's dress before they leave for school.
Remember:
- Shorts should be fingertip length or longer.
- Shirts need to cover your midriff and have straps that are at least ID width. (No bellies showing)
- Pants should be worn at the waistline, not sagging, no pajama pants are allowed unless on approved days.
- We will try to work with students on correcting dress code issues, but please be aware that you may be contacted to bring alternative outfits if the solutions don't work out.
Please see the full dress code below.
DRESS CODE REMINDERS
1. Clothing and/or hair should not be so extreme or inappropriate to the school setting as to disrupt the educational process. Therefore, clothing deemed distracting, revealing, overly suggestive, or otherwise disruptive shall not be permitted. This includes bare midriffs, halter/tank tops, see-through shirts/tops/blouses, and bike shorts.
2. No vulgar, obscene, or otherwise inappropriate symbols, language, or wording will be permitted on clothing or accessories.
3. Clothing or accessories, i.e., book bags, jewelry, hats, etc., that display alcohol, tobacco, or other drug symbols are not permitted.
4. Gang attire, gang colors, or gang symbols are also not permitted to be worn or displayed on accessories.
5. Hats, head stockings, pajamas, or kerchiefs may only be worn during the school day for special occasions when approved by the principal.
6. Proper shoes must be worn at all times.
7. Special dress or costume may be worn during the school day for special occasions when approved by the principal.
8. Wearing accessories or clothing that could pose a safety threat to one’s self or others is not allowed. This includes heavy chains, not made as jewelry, fishhooks, multiple-finger rings, studded bracelets or collars, nose/lip to ear chains, etc. Unusual body piercing that is disruptive to the order of the school or is a distraction to the learning environment will not be allowed.
9. Pants must be worn at the natural waistline and undergarments are not to be visible.
10. Hats may be worn at the school bus stop or while on the bus during periods of cold weather. Hats must conform to all of the above requirements and must be removed before entering the building.
REMINDERS
All students cellphones should be placed in bookbags when released from the gym or cafeteria in the mornings and should not be in use again until the bell rings for dismissal at 3:30 PM
All students must wear a mask covering their mouth and nose, and practice social distancing while at school.
Visitors will not be allowed to enter the school at this time.
It is recommended that students bring their own water bottle which can be filled at water bottle stations as needed. Parents that bring lunch to students need to have food in a lunch box for students.
Upon arrival students needing to eat breakfast will report to the cafeteria. All other students will report to the gym.
IDs must be worn around the neck for all students when on school campus. Students will be charged $1 for every day that they need a temporary ID. If an ID is missing, a replacement is $5 and a lanyard is $1.
Students can arrive at school between 7:50 am and 8:25 am. Adequate supervision is not available until this time for all students.
All students need to be dropped off in the car rider line in the morning up until 8:25 am
School ends at 3:30 pm. Please make sure your student knows their bus number in the afternoon or how they will be getting home each day.
Parking to pick up students in the car rider line is prohibited.
CALENDAR & EVENTS
UPCOMING DATES
3/29/2021
- Boys Lacrosse vs. Blythewood @ Blythewood 5:30 pm
- Girls Lacrosse vs. Blythewood @ DFHS 5:30 pm
- SPIRIT WEEK TEAM DAY
- Boys Soccer vs. Lexington @ Lexington 5:30 pm
- Girls Soccer vs Lexington @ DFHS 5:30 pm
3/31/2021
- PAJAMA DAY
- Lower Richland Track Meet @ 5:00 pm
4/1/2021
- THROWBACK THURSDAY
- Boys Lacrosse vs. Lexington @ Lexington 5:30 pm
- Girls Lacrosse vs. Lexington @ DFHS 5:30 pm
4/2/2021
- FOX PRIDE
- Beach Run Invitational 4:00 pm
INSTRUCTION & SUPPORT
ATTENDANCE
Students participating in the hybrid model have onsite instructional days combined with virtual instructional days. Teachers have addressed attendance for students during the distance learning, instructional days. Remind your students to check their Google Classrooms for assignments and attendance on their distance learning days.
If there is a technology issue that results in your student missing the class, the parent must submit an email to the teacher of the class missed for the class to be excused. If a student is unable to attend for any medical reason, the excuse must be submitted by the parent to the teacher and to Attendance Clerk Joan Jedlicka at jjedlicka@lexrich5.org.
CHROMEBOOKS & TECHNOLOGY
CHROMEBOOK NOT WORKING?
**NEW** We now have a D5 Student Self Help Service Portal. This is a portal to assist the student in fixing their issue(s) without having to put in a trouble ticket.
- Hybrid (In Person) Students: Take Broken Chromebook to Media Center M/T/TH/F - 8am-3pm (closed Wednesdays)
- FIVE (All Virtual) students: Complete the DFMS Student Chromebook Repair Request Form
- A D5 Technician will contact you about making an appointment for a repair.
- DFMS Digital Integration Specialist (DIS): Mrs. Kelly Thacker - kthacker@lexrich5.org 803-476-4826
HOW-TOs AND TROUBLESHOOTING
- The Student Knowledge Base
https://www.lexrich5.org/Page/26528
- Student Technology Knowledge Base (How-Tos and Troubleshooting)
https://sites.google.com/lexrich5.org/studenttechnology/home
- Instructional Technology (Software and How-Tos)
https://sites.google.com/lexrich5.org/d5distancelearning/
- Our main Technology Webpage also has additional information about hotspots, wifi business partners and much, much more!
- Distance Learning Site
https://sites.google.com/lexrich5.org/d5distancelearning/home?authuser=0
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Voluntary Weightlifting
Weightlifting for football has started.
*Please note at this time this is voluntary, and players will not be penalized for not attending.
Weightlifting will take place on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 3:50 to 4:30pm. There will be no weight lifting on Wednesday. Players wishing to participate will be dismissed with the walkers, and will walk to the high school. Players will not be dismissed from weightlifting early. Students MUST be picked up at 4:30.
Please make sure your player brings a mask and a water bottle clearly labeled with their name.
Go Foxes!!!!
JUNIOR MISS SILVER FOX PAGEANT
REGINALD L. SLADE, Maj, USAF (ret)
Sr. Aerospace Science Instructor
Dutch Fork HS, JROTC Unit SC-921
(803) 476-3370
JROTC
Dutch Fork High JROTC is looking for students that would like to join a family of cadets on a journey to become better leaders and citizens in their community and nation. JROTC is much more than marching and military-related activities; our program will develop and prepare students for life after graduation! Joining our family does not come with any military service obligations and must be the voluntary choice of the student. Please take a few minutes to view the videos by clicking on the links below. We would also appreciate you following us on Instagram by clicking here.
FCA
ADDITIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
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CAFETERIA INFORMATION
PTSA CORNER
Thank you to everyone who purchased an Attractions Book to support our fundraising event. We would like to sell an additional 100 books and need your help to meet this goal. If your family and friends have not yet ordered an Attractions Book, you can order by clicking on the below link or sending $20.00 to the school.
https://tinyurl.com/y49rrzwf
Every book sold will help provide funds to support our students, teachers, and staff! Thank you to all of our Dutch Fork families for your continued support of the PTSA.
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Please visit our Spirit Wear Store on Member Hub for all spirit wear items such as masks, t-shirts, sweatshirts, and more.
DUTCH FORK MIDDLE SCHOOL
Website: http://lexrich5.org/dfms
Location: 1528 Old Tamah Road, Irmo, SC, USA
Phone: (803) 476-4800
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dutch-Fork-Middle-School-549147891811317/
Twitter: @DutchForkMS
Information Regarding Late Start Days
Middle School Late Start Days:
April 28, 2021
May 19, 2021
Printable versions of the district’s early release and late start dates can be found online on the district’s calendar webpage: www.lexrich5.org/calendar.