MYES Family Newsletter
WEEK OF 3.1.21
Myersville Elementary School
Email: dana.austin@fcps.org
Website: https://education.fcps.org/myes/
Location: 429 Main Street, Myersville, MD, USA
Phone: 240-236-1900
Twitter: @MYESFCPS
Calendar Updates
Monday, March 29- Monday, April 5: Schools and Offices Closed for Spring Break
Monday, April 12: Schools Closed for Students (Teacher Work Day)
Middletown Middle School Parent Orientation
For Incoming Sixth Grade Students
Please join us for a virtual parent orientation for rising Sixth Grade students:
March 4, 2021
6:30-7:30 pm
To join the video meeting, click this link:
https://meet.google.com/ivz-efng-vxw
Otherwise, to join by phone, dial +1 470-206-8804 and enter this PIN: 342 683 615#
Transportation Reminders
School dismissal: If there is a change in the way that your child travels home from school, please send a note that morning to inform the school of the change or contact the front office by 1:30 pm. You may also submit the change via this link.
School bus delays: In a perfect world, our buses would run on time every day. But for a variety of reasons, buses can run late from time to time. Did you know we have a webpage dedicated to providing updates on late buses countywide? If a bus will be 10 minutes or later, it is posted here.
PTA News
Hello Myersville Families,
There is lots going on now as some students are back learning in person and the PTA needs to start preparing for next year. This will (really) be the end of our terms as co- presidents for Kate Bladen and myself so we need two new officers for next year. Luckily, we already have an outstanding nomination for President in Dawn Miskell who has been on the PTA board as secretary for a few years and also runs the school’s yearbook committee. This means we will need a new secretary. We are also going to need to elect a new treasurer, but our current treasurer Aaron Anderson is willing to assist with the transition. If you are willing to help out next year as VP, secretary or treasurer please email myersvillepta@gmail.com as soon as possible. If you’re on the fence, please email with any questions!
Chara Embrey
Hybrid Learning Model Reminders
Safety Measures:
Mask Expectations: Everyone in the school building will wear a face covering while at school. The information linked here is intended to provide clarity about the FCPS requirements for wearing face coverings in school buildings.
Daily COVID-19 Screening Questions: Each week, parents will receive a communication that contains daily screening questions prior to coming to school. Direct emails and/or calls will be sent using the contact information in our Student Information System. Reminders for students will also be communicated in Schoology. The screening form is linked for your convenience here.
Virtual Attendance in the Event of Mild Symptoms: If students are experiencing any symptoms of illness, they should stay home and parents should follow up with their child's health care provider. Students are encouraged to attend virtually any day they are not in school if they feel well enough to do so (even if it is a day for which they are scheduled to be in person). Please provide a note if your child is not able to attend in person or virtually due to illness.
Close Contact and Quarantine Details for Parents - What to Expect: When a positive COVID-19 case is confirmed, FCPS will conduct a case investigation to determine if there was any close contact with other individuals. Close contact means that an individual was within six feet for a prolonged period of more than a cumulative of fifteen minutes over a 24-hour period. All identified close contacts will be immediately notified and asked to quarantine for ten days and monitor for potential symptoms. If the close contact becomes symptomatic, the individual should seek assistance from their healthcare provider.
Quarantine means:
- Stay home except to obtain medical care.
- Your child may not participate in any in person school activities.
- Avoid public spaces and practice physical distancing of six feet or more from other people.
- Wear a mask at all times around other people.
Monitoring means:
- Watch for fever. Check temperature twice a day, at least 6 hours apart and record in a log.
- If your student or anyone else in the household develops symptoms such as a fever, cough, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, chills, muscle pains, sore throat, or a new loss of taste or smell, contact your healthcare provider immediately.
For further details, the FCPS guidance for Student Health and Safety and COVID-19 Response Plan can be found at this link.
Governor Hogan's Travel Order: The governor issued an emergency order requiring Marylanders to limit all travel to essential purposes only. All Marylanders who do travel outside of Maryland must either obtain a negative COVID-19 test result or self-quarantine for 10 days. The exceptions to the order include Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Hybrid students who travel outside of MD will need to follow the governor's order and should access virtual instruction upon return for 10 days or until a negative COVID test is obtained.
Reducing Visitors to the School Building: For the protection of our staff and students, we will significantly limit visitors in the building. If you need to speak with administration or with someone at the school, please call the office in advance (most meetings will be held via phone or Google Meet). All students are afforded access to a free breakfast and lunch each day, so there should be minimal need for food to be dropped off for students. If you need to drop off or pick up anything else at school, you will be asked to leave it or pick up in the vestibule (thus limiting traffic in our front office).
Other Additional Information:
Water Bottles: All students who are attending in person hybrid instruction may bring a refillable water bottle labeled with their first and last name. FCPS water fountains will be used for the sole purpose of filling water bottles at school as needed.
Virtual Snow Day Information: In the event of inclement weather, FCPS may call for a virtual learning day where all students will access learning from home. Students at all levels (i.e., elementary, middle, and high) will follow that day's regular class schedule (i.e. If the virtual snow day is on a Tuesday, students will follow their normal Tuesday class schedule).
Free Breakfast and Lunch for Hybrid Students
2020-2021 SCHOOL BREAKFAST AND LUNCH
We are excited to announce that the USDA has approved FREE meals for all children 18 years old and younger!
STARTING FEBRUARY 16, all FCPS schools will serve breakfast, lunch and supper (to-go) for FREE to all children learning in school buildings on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
All meals will be individually wrapped or compartmentalized.
Free breakfast and lunch meals will be available to children in cohort A on Mondays and Tuesdays while they are in school and to children in cohort B on Thursdays and Fridays while they are in the school. On these days when students are learning in a school building, they can also take a free to-go meal home for supper that same day.
Due to the amount of food being distributed for the remainder of the days, we encourage families who want additional meals for the days when students are not in the school building learning (virtual days at home, weekends, holidays) to pick up the additional meals at the child’s school on a day when they are learning in the building or visit one of the open community sites on Wednesdays and/or Fridays from 11am-1pm to pick up the additional meals.
Health Metrics Dashboard
FCPS provides regular updates about health metrics throughout the county. Our health metrics dashboard allows families to track confirmed COVID-19 outbreaks by school and by community. The dashboard is updated weekly on Mondays.
Need help during the school day?
Learning Lab mentors will be available daily for any student who needs extra support from 9 am-4 pm. Go to meet.google.com and enter team-myes.
Also, check out this guide for troubleshooting tech tips:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1luIE44b-l8yHKvtSDQF_Vvd_g0kt2dg4/view
Tutoring Virtual Hotline for Families
A staff member is available to assist families from 4-5 pm on Monday-Thursday. Go to meet.google.com and enter team-myes for technology assistance or student academic support.
MYES Vision Statement
Myersville Elementary is a place where students and staff are engaged learners. They feel safe to take risks and all contributions are valued. Here we have fun while we learn in our school community.
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