Patriot Peek at the Week News

I hope you all enjoy a wonderful Labor Day weekend! There will be no school on Monday, September 6th. We will just have four days of school next week.

We have been adding more mitigations to help prevent the spread of Covid in our school and minimize the number of close contacts. Students may eat lunch at a slightly different time than normal. We are separating grade levels for each lunch module so that students can be distanced further apart in the cafeteria. We will also be making some adjustments to our morning routines for breakfast. Again, this will ensure students are distanced further apart while their masks are off for eating. Our main goal is to keep as many students as possible safe and decrease the number of students that have to quarantine.

If you would like to share your suggestions for how to make Wolf Ridge better, please consider joining our parent advisory group. Click on the link below to join! Together, we are better! Thank you for your continued support. Always feel free to reach out to me with your questions or concerns at sronen@bhcusd.org.

#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:

https://forms.gle/26RA4cBmTBUanCkm8

REVIEW THE HANDBOOK HERE:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n8gQsH3daqe-wWTm7j59OWqghP5T1tzo/view?usp=sharing

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 = Leia Burns

2nd = Adelynn Bartee and Jessica Gerecke

3rd = Abigail Proffer

4th = Madelynn Cuvar

6th = Jaxon Bennett

8th = AnnaSophia Conway and Charlotte Jones

9th = Cox, Glen Dayhne Cox, Braxton Crowe, Mackenzie Emerson, and Cheyann Higgins

10th = Austin & Joseph Leonard and Hunter Redman

12th = Navi Stapleford

In observance of Labor Day, there will be no school on this Monday.

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