Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Please see the Q&A document for more detailed information on school reopening planning, distance learning, transportation, health and safety precautions, and teaching and learning.

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Please see the Q&A document for more detailed information on school reopening planning, distance learning, transportation, health and safety precautions, and teaching and learning.

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Please see the Q&A document for more detailed information on school reopening planning, distance learning, transportation, health and safety precautions, and teaching and learning.

Possible Re-opening Scenarios as of June 11, 2020 – Subject to Change

Barrie School's final plan will be based on the most up to date CDC recommendations along with state and local protocols, and will be carefully considered to address and promote the safety, health, and welfare of our community.

1. Schools everywhere could stay closed for much of the fall. In this situation, education at Barrie would continue online and ideally improve based on everything we learned this Spring. However, even in this worst case scenario, Toddler and Primary students may be able to be on campus earlier than everyone else and we’ll get into that shortly.
    
2. Schools begin online in late August, and then open a little later with new health guidelines that we will discuss tonight.
    
3. Schools open on time with the new guidelines in place... and then close for a periodic outbreak before reopening again.
    
4. We open on time and campuses remain open throughout the year with the new guidelines in place.

As Middle and Upper School families have experienced the smallest tuition increases over the past few years and the educational experience of our youngest children has been impacted the most by the transition to distance learning, we have announced a COVID-19 Lower School Tuition Credit Plan for Toddler through 5th Grade families.

The goal of this program is to provide prorated tuition credits to alleviate the financial impact should pandemic conditions necessitate campus closures at any point during the upcoming school year. Please note that this automatically applies to all Lower School students in 2020-21.

Please see the Virtual Town Hall web page for more information about this plan.

Planning for Reopening After the COVID 19 Pandemic as of April 28, 2020 – Subject to Change

The final plan will be based on the most up to date CDC recommendations along with state and local protocols, and will be carefully considered to address and promote the safety, health, and welfare of our community.

1. Developing a comprehensive update to illness policy guidelines 

• Updating exclusion criteria 
• Specific COVID19 symptoms guidelines - isolation and quarantine protocols  
• Prerequisites for returning to school after an illness

2. Enhanced cleaning and prevention measures schoolwide 
   • Increased cleaning of common areas and materials during the school day
   • Modified social distancing
      
3. Screening of students and staff - daily temperature checks 
    
4. Wearing of masks or face coverings by students and staff - if still recommended at time of opening
   • Looking at what this looks like for smaller children (safety protocols)
      
5. Isolation and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Standards in the Health Office 
    
6. Continued Communicable Disease Monitoring, tracking and surveillance 

Policy, cleaning, social distancing per CDC, modify as possible, screening checks i.e., temperature checks and signs of illness throughout the day, masks, doing continued research, isolation and PPE.