Congratulations to our September Students of the Month! Students will receive their certificates and gift cards on Monday, October 18th.

We have begun to utilize a Test-to-Stay (TTS) protocol at James Hart in order to keep more students who are "close contacts" in school as opposed to being excluded from attendance. Test-to-Stay allows schools to test students identified as "close contacts" on the first, third, fifth, and seventh day after contact (or as close to this sequence as possible) and--if the student continually tests negative--remain in school. While not all students qualify for TTS, we hope to be able to use this when a student does qualify in order to keep them in school. Your school nurse will notify you if your student qualifies for Test-to-Stay. Please note this only applies for school contacts and not household contacts.

Each year it is required for schools to practice various drills to keep everyone safe. It is important for our students to know what to do in case of an emergency.

Code Red means that there is danger inside the school. We stay quiet, hidden in our locked areas.

Code Yellow means that there is danger outside the school. We lock all our exterior doors and do not let anyone into the building.

On Thursday, October 21st we will be doing a Code Red Drill. Anytime we are doing a drill we will say Code Red DRILL or Code Yellow DRILL.

Here is the information that we will share with students to prepare for the drill:

• If you do not hear us say DRILL then this is real. How you act does not change.
• We want to prepare everyone to always be safe.
• Stay calm and listen to adults.
• The adult you are with may call 911 from their cell phone if possible, so please be very quiet so that the adult can communicate with the police dispatcher.
• Please listen to the adult in your room as to what the procedures will be if you hear someone yell or announce Code Red/Code Yellow or Code Red/Yellow DRILL.
• Students will need to be out of the sight of the doors/windows and stay very quiet.
• Classroom lights should be turned off.
• Classroom doors must be locked.
• Once you are in the classroom do not open the door for anyone.
• If you are in the hallway get to the closest open classroom and follow the directions of the adult in the room.
• If you are in the gymnasium you will go into the locker rooms.
• If you are in the cafeteria you will go into the bathrooms and or kitchen.
  
• If you are in the bathroom, lock the bathroom door and hide in a stall with your feet on the seat.
• If you see someone in the building that does not have a badge (James Hart or Visitor) please let an adult know because it may be an intruder.
• Please do not ever open exterior doors for someone. All visitors need to check-in at the James Hart Office on Morgan Street.

If you do not want your child to participate in the drill, please give Ms. Johnson, our principal a call at the school.

Culver's and Walgreens will be limiting the number of students allowed in their establishments after school hours without a parent/guardian or adult.

Culver's

There will be a limit of 15 students allowed in the restaurant at a time and there will be a twenty-minute time limit in the dining area.

Walgreens

There will be a limit of 8 students allowed in the store at one time. Bookbags must be left at the front of the store.