COVID safety and testing. Let’s keep our schools safe!
Compass Families, Happy New Year! As we welcome students back into our classrooms after a well-deserved winter break, our highest priority continues to be the health and safety of our Compass community. To this end, our safety protocols will remain intact as we head into the spring semester – we are taking precautions to fight COVID on every front through vaccinations, regular COVID testing at every Compass campus, social distancing measures, hand washing and mask wearing! We know that nothing is more important to you than keeping your children in school – learning in healthy and safe environments. Families across the city are doing all they can to keep communities safe from the Omicron variant: Vaccinations: Getting vaccinated is the best way to protect yourself, your family and your community from the virus. The available [...]
Free Covid Testing from Poplar Healthcare
Dear Compass Families: Compass Community Schools is proud to partner with Poplar Healthcare to provide free COVID-19 testing on-site to our school communities! With case counts rising, we strongly encourage all of our students to take advantage of this testing. One way for us to keep everyone safe is for us to catch any asymptomatic cases early, and testing is the best way for that to happen. A link to the consent form can be found at: https://hipaa.jotform.com/poplarhealthcare/SCS-patient-auth-consent This online form is in English by default but you can change the language to Spanish in the top right corner. If you would prefer a paper form, it is attached in both English and Spanish. If you are using the paper form, your child must bring a signed copy of this form with them to their testing appointment. We expect to be on a [...]
Letter from Compass E.D. Kristi Baird-Start of School, Safety Protocols
Dear Compass Families, I hope you’ve enjoyed a restful and fun summer break. We are looking forward to welcoming students back to our school buildings for the 2021-22 school year next week on Wednesday, July 21. We can’t wait to see all of their smiling faces! Thank you for entrusting us with your child and allowing us to prepare them for lifelong success. As all students return to an in-person learning environment, we remain committed to the safety of our students, faculty and staff. Therefore, we will continue implementing COVID-19 safety procedures until further notice, including requiring social distancing measures; encouraging good hygiene practices; and regularly disinfecting our school buildings. While the CDC recently loosened its mask guidelines, we decided to maintain our mask requirement for students, teachers and any other individuals who enter a [...]
End of Year Letter, 21-22 School Calendar & Summer Camp
Dear Compass Community, First, I’d like to thank you for your support, patience and perseverance as we navigated the process of reentering into classrooms over the past few months. Our students’ school family and home family worked together, like we always do, to provide them with the best education possible, and we couldn’t be more proud of the outcome. We thank you for entrusting your child with us this year, and we look forward to continuing your student’s educational journey as we head into the next school year. We have finalized our calendar for the 2021-2022 school year! Compass operates on an extended day and extended year calendar, so more days in school result in more learning. Our first day of school for students is July 21. All Compass schools and all grade levels [...]
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