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Thank you to those who were able to attend the annual State of the School Presentation on Thursday, December 9th. Below are a link to the video and slide deck.

Slide Deck

Meeting Recording

In coordination with Alderman Osterman and the Office of Health and Wellness, Peirce will host a vaccination clinic at Peirce on Friday, December 17th and 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 Dec 17, 2021 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.

CPS is improving how it rates the quality of its schools and needs your help.

The district wants to know what every student (grades 6-12), parent, teacher, administrator, and staff member thinks is important when measuring school quality. To accomplish this, we’re asking you to complete a short survey.

Here’s what you need to know about the survey:

• The survey is completely voluntary and takes less than 10 minutes to complete.

• It is available in 20 languages.

• You can skip any question.

• Your responses are completely anonymous.

• The survey closes on Thursday, December 23, 2021.

You can complete the survey by following this link: cps.edu/AccountabilityRedesignSurvey

As an additional thank you for your time and effort, you can enter to win one of 25 $50 Amazon gift cards after completing the survey! You will need to provide your contact information to enter, but it will not be linked to your survey responses.

If you have questions about the survey or how CPS measures school performance, please email SQRP@cps.edu

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.

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 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.

HOLIDAY SHOPPING GUIDE

Getting ready for the holidays? Consider using partners and programs of Friend's of Peirce

(FOP). Each purchase you make through them gives a portion of the sale back to FOP. See what we have to offer.

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• Games

Games make for great family time together. Shop at the Dice Dojo (5550 N Broadway) from December 4 through December 10 to give back to Peirce!

• Sweets & More

Place an online order and get some great holiday food options from Edge of Sweetness.

• Holiday Cards at Minted

Use code FUNDRAISEFRIENDSOFPEIRCE and save 20% when you order cards from Minted. You don't need holiday cards? This code is good all year! Birth Announcements, Retirement Parties, Birthday Parties, and more!

• Honey Baked Ham

Buy a gift-card from our site and then use it to get a signature ham, tender turkey, or even lunch at one of their stores.

• Peirce Gear

Keep your family stay warm with Peirce hoodies and more.

• Family Sponsorship

Become a sponsor in someone's name and support FOP's mission directly. Thank you for your support.

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FOR MORE DETAILS...Check out the FOP Holiday Shopping 2021 guide.

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

CPS made the following update to the Sick Student Protocol:

1. 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.

1. Examples where ”high suspicion” exists = sick individual is a known close contact or loss of taste or smell.

2. Siblings/household members can remain in school and must wear masks both indoors and outdoors.

3. 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.

December

15th GO CPS Enrollment Applications close at 5:00pm

17th Progress Reports Distributed

17th Vaccination Clinic at Peirce

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

• Incident Report Form
  

• Question & Suggestion Box
  

• PSO Contact Forms

  Español (link: https://bit.ly/InformacióndecontactodePeirce)

English (link: https://bit.ly/PeirceUpdateContactInfo)

• Pay Student Fee (through your parent Aspen account)
• School Schedules
• Parent, Educator and External Guide for Reopening
  
• Self-Reporting of COVID19 Positive Cases
• Family Handbook
  
• School Year 2021-2022 Calendar
  
• Safety Best Practices