PDTogether 2.0

As shared last spring, we will not be offering Remote Learning as an option unless your child has a medically documented issue. All medically documented Remote Learning requests will need to be approved by our nurse’s office. Please note that our Remote Learning model will be offered until the end of the calendar year and will be reassessed for 2022.  The following changes have been made to our Remote Learning model for fall 2021.

• Remote Learning students will be fully remote and not participate in extracurricular activities such as athletics, performing arts, etc.

• Remote Learning will not involve live lessons streamed from the classroom.

• The course of study, specials, and electives will be limited due to staffing.

If your child is exposed to a positive Covid case while on or off campus, the time away from campus in quarantine will be treated like other illnesses and classwork/makeup work should be coordinated with the teacher/s. 

All individuals need to wear masks while indoors.  PD will begin this school year requiring masking while indoors for both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals and socially distancing whenever we can, with the exception of lower school afternoon carpool. No masks are required for anyone while outdoors. All children will wear masks while on school buses. 

As a private independent school, we have the ability to make decisions that support the health and well being of our school community.  Universal masking is one of the layered prevention strategies  a school can use to mitigate the risk COVID-19. This strategy is recommended when a school lacks the ability to track vaccination status, community vaccination rates are low, and community transmission rates are high. We are able to track vaccination status, monitor and enforce mask wearing policies, and require testing  for members of our community that are not vaccinated. Our high faculty vaccination rate of 95% + along with our ability to track, test, and monitor gives us confidence that we can keep our community safe. If there are changes in our PD school community and/or with requirements by a governing body we will adjust accordingly.

No. We will not be requiring a Daily Health Screening or temperature checks for our students or vaccinated employees.  If you have been exposed or showing symptoms of COVID-19 you are required to report to the nurses at this link (or email anne.worgan@providenceday.org AND emily.rusniak@providenceday.org). You may be required to provide a negative COVID test result before returning to school. 

Our unvaccinated employees will be required to complete a daily health screening. 

All students, faculty and staff are required to complete their Magnus Health Forms before returning to school. This year we included a “yes” or “no” question concerning vaccination status. If vaccinated, a copy of the vaccination record must be uploaded or we will assume the individual is not vaccinated and must wear a mask indoors. 

We are relying on the honesty and integrity of our PD families to adhere to the mask and quarantining protocols based on their child's vaccinated or unvaccinated status. We are also relying on our PD parents to adhere to our current indoor masking policies based on their own vaccination status. 

Screening testing of our unvaccinated employees can provide another layer of protection for our school community. We are so pleased with our high vaccination rate of 95%+ for faculty and 90% + for all employees. At this time, vaccination continues to be our best mitigation strategy and we will encourage all employees to be vaccinated. For those employees that cannot or choose not to be vaccinated, we may require ongoing screening testing. 

We will attempt to maintain 2-3 ft of distance while students are in the classrooms.  We will maintain greater than 3ft while masks are removed and students are eating.

Please refer to your divisional letters (delivered via Charger Commons) and FLIK (via Charger Commons) for detailed dining information. 

No. All plexi-glass barriers were removed over the summer. 

We are happy to report that this summer we have had a total of two positive COVID-19 cases on campus. We have had over 3,275 campers on campus with Summer Programs and there have been over 200 student-athletes on campus.  

At this time, we will communicate school community COVID-19 cases using a dashboard on Charger Commons. Exposed individuals will be contacted individually by our nurses utilizing Johns Hopkins University contact tracing procedures. 

Based on current CDC quarantine guidelines, vaccinated individuals do not need to quarantine but must monitor symptoms. If you believe you have been exposed or are showing symptoms, please reach out to our Nurses at this link. 

At this time we are following the health and safety protocol established by the NCISAA for our athletes. Athletes participating in indoor activities must be masked while not actively engaged in the sport. This applies to vaccinated and unvaccinated athletes. Athletes are not required to wear masks while outdoors. 

Custom made masks have been created for choral students, and bell covers will continue to be used by all band students. Band, chorus, and theatre classes will continue to use multiple rehearsal spaces, to include outdoor and larger indoor spaces. 

Yes, we have started  domestic travel on a limited basis. Class trips, field trips and off campus activities are being evaluated individually based on grade level, location and activities. Some of our student athletes have already participated in overnight travel and our Senior Class will be traveling to Cape Cod in August. Health and safety protocol is developed specifically for each trip. We have started to explore the possibility of global travel next summer. 

All bus riders will be required to wear a mask. We will continue to keep windows open when possible, promote the use of hand sanitizer, and assign seating. 

Yes. Extended Day will be offering after school enrichment programs for all interested Lower School students.  Our Enrichment providers will follow the same health and safety protocol as our employees. Please refer to Charger Commons for more information on Extended Day. 

We will follow all CDC and state mandated quarantine guidelines.

Yes. We plan to partner with Starmed and our nurses to offer vaccination clinics on campus as soon as vaccinations are available for children under 12 years of age.