COVID Return Protocols
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As staff and students approach the beginning of the school year on August 16, important updates will continue to be sent to families in order to facilitate a smooth start to the 2022-2023 school year.
As part of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, Holy Ghost School, as well as all others in the Archdiocese, have received guidelines to share with you regarding the continuing challenge of keeping students safe as the COVID virus has mutated. The goal is simple: keep students, staff, and families as safe as possible while on campus and while participating in activities, so that we may remain open and our familes may remain healthy. The following are the current guidelines in a condensed form:
- All students, faculty, and staff have the option of wearing masks.
- Students will be distanced at least three feet apart indoors.
- We will continue to keep students in cohorts as much as possible. Therefore, the following practices will be in place:
- Students will eat lunch in the gym and disinfect after each meal.
- Each classroom will have a touchless hand sanitizer and students will be reminded of good hygiene regularly.
- As part of our ongoing “good health” practices, we will continue to disinfect for both COVID and other viruses.
- Student morning drop off and afternoon pickup will remain the same: parents will drive into the north parking lot off of Arizona Street, and queue up as staff retrieves students from the vehicles. Pick up will operate the same with parents remaining in their cars as students are brought to them. Each family will again be assigned a “family pick up/drop off number” to be displayed in the windows of vehicles so that staff may easily identify families.
- Students will eat lunch in the gym and disinfect after each meal.
If a family member is sick, we will ask you to keep all students home and ask you to pick up all of your children at school should one of them become ill during the school day. The school has COVID tests for you to take if needed. We find this precaution allows our students to do the following:
- Students will be able to be outdoors without masks at this time.
- Students will be able to play sports and other games with balls.
- Students will be allowed on the playground equipment.
- Students will continue to distance themselves from one another in order to adhere to best practices.
Over the past two years, we have had two spikes in COVID cases. We communicated with families immediately and increased testing. Our parents did a wonderful job of keeping students home when they were ill, and the increase in cases ended relatively quickly. We do not not what new variants will mean, but we will continue to communicate our expectations of safety with families and update them with any concerns. - All students, faculty, and staff have the option of wearing masks.
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