Patriot Peek at the Week News

This past week is why we say that Wolf Ridge swims together! It takes all of us working together to ensure that we keep as many students as possible in-person at school. Due to multiple students and staff members testing positive for Covid, many students had to quarantine or are currently under a quarantine order from the health department.

We need your help to keep our students in school. Please do not send your child to school if experiencing symptoms or if a sibling is experiencing any symptoms of Covid. Please see below for more information about symptoms to monitor. It is also important that students are sent to school with a properly fitting, clean mask. When contact tracing, students can be 3 feet apart when wearing a mask properly. If students are unmasked at lunch or do not wear their mask properly in the classroom, then the close contact distance is within 6 feet. We want to minimize the number of close contacts so that fewer students have to quarantine.

It takes each of us doing our part to ensure student and staff safety. Let's work together!

#WRswimstogether

#justkeepswimming

Your Principal,

Ms. Ronen

- If your child is has any of the following symptoms, please do not send them to school:

Fever (100.4 degrees or higher), New Onset of Moderate to Severe Headache, Shortness of Breath, New Cough, Sore Throat, Vomiting, Fatigue from Unknown Cause, Body or Muscle Aches

- It is important that siblings of any child experiencing symptoms also stay home.

- Please ensure your child comes to school with a properly fitting, clean mask. Masks should be able to stay above the nose.

- We encourage hand washing and sanitizing often at school. Please review proper handwashing with your child.

Below are the guidelines that we must follow when contact tracing at school this year:

- When wearing a mask, students are only considered a close contact if within 3 feet of a Covid positive individual for more than 15 minutes within a 24 hour period.

- When not wearing a mask, students are considered a close contact if within 6 feet of a Covid positive individual for more than 15 minutes within a 24 hour period. This would only be while eating or during band at our school.

- Students are not considered close contacts while outdoors.

- If your child is considered a close contact, the health department will order a 10 day quarantine from the last date of exposure. (The length of quarantine was reduced from 14 days to 10 this year.)

Please know that I hate having to make phone calls to unfortunately notify you when your child is a close contact and will have to transition to remote learning. We are doing everything we can at Wolf Ridge to minimize the number of close contacts.

- School districts are not allowed to provide remote learning options for students unless a student is under a quarantine order from the health department.

- Quarantines for students will not exceed 10 days from the last date of exposure. In most cases, this means only six or less days of remote learning due to weekends.

- Many school districts did not provide any live lessons last year. We are proud that our school district did! This year, teachers may or may not provide live lessons. However, we will provide learning materials and be available to support your child while learning at home. Your child's teacher will communicate with you about specific learning activities and materials needed.

- At this time, PK-3 will have learning packets available for pickup during remote learning. Grades 4-7 will have all learning materials on Google Classroom. Many of our upper grade teachers are providing live lessons, too.

- If your child has an IEP, our special education resource teachers will be contacting you to ensure instruction, services, and accommodations are provided.

- If you have any questions, please reach out to your child's teacher via email. All of our teachers are very understanding and willing to help during temporary periods of remote learning for those quarantined.

REGISTER HERE:

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REVIEW THE HANDBOOK HERE:

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We are excited for this new program! Since it is brand new, we will be making it better each and every day. Stay tuned for more information about special events and details.

Before school PAC students can be dropped off in the morning anytime between 6:00-8:00 AM in the car line off East Alton Street on the side of our building. Ms. Bassett will be there to greet your child.

After school PAC students can be picked up in the cafeteria anytime between 3:30-6:00 PM. Students need to be signed out by an approved pick up person each day. Please enter through the double doors under the awning.

NEW DAILY RATES AVAILABLE ($20/day for BOTH and $15/day for EITHER before OR after)

Weekly Rate for Both Before & After School: $80/week

Weekly Rate for Before School Only: $45/week

Weekly Rate for After School Only: $55/week

DAILY Rate for Both Before & After School: $20/each day

DAILY Rate for Either Before OR After: $15/each day

Full Day Rate for Non-Attendance School Days: $25/each day

(There is a 10% discount for more than one child.)

Please let our PAC Coordinator, Ms. Bassett, know when to expect your child at PAC by emailing jbassett1@bhcusd.org or calling PAC at 618-585-4831. Families can register at anytime at least one week in advance. The registration fee is $25 per family.

1st = Peyton Jones and Julia Ortiz

2nd = Maxx Naylor, Rowan Pehrson, Austin Raymond, and Kenlee Wieseman

5th = Kaytlyn Mosier, Phoenix Ratcliffe, and Katherine Weller

6th = Landon Wear

8th = Elijah Combs and Ashlin Sherer

9th = Kobe and Foster Martin

10th = Oliva Fite and Zoe Greeling

11th = Lucas Bandy

13th = Mackenzie Hancock and Mason Rather

14th = Mason Gusoskey

17th = Alexis Goeckner

18th = Samuel Devall and Makenna Lievers

20th = Saylor Lawrence

21st = Levi Sellers

23rd = Nicholas Rull and Mary Schuetz

25th = Andi Breitwiser

26th = Fryman, Aiden Fryman and Phoenix Williams

27th = Josie Ortiz

30th = Olivia Hammon

31st = Heidi Kahl

Teachers will participate in professional development activities in the afternoon on this day. Students will be dismissed early at 12:30. This is a Wednesday.

Secretary: Ms. Kathrine Gvillo

Student & Family Advocate: Ms. Trista Manar

School Nurse: Ms. Christy Scott

Principal: Ms. Shonda Ronen

Email: sronen@bhcusd.org
Website: bhcusd.org
Location: 700 West Orange Street, Bunker Hill, IL, USA
Phone: 618-585-4831
Facebook: facebook.com/BunkerHillCUSD
Twitter: @bhcusd_8