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FALL 2020
A Guide for Fairmont Families
Release 2, July 2020
TABLE OF CONTENTS
3 4 6
Overview Phased Scenario 1:
Planning Full Return to
Campus
7 14 15
Scenario 2: Scenario 3: FAQs
Modified Fully Remote
On-Campus Learning
Learning*
2
OVERVIEW
At Fairmont Schools, we believe in the social/emotional, educational, and physical support of our
students. In order to resume educating our students in person, we are implementing processes and
procedures to ensure that compassion, human connection and safety are at the forefront of our plans.
We will continue to maintain the academic rigor and close-knit
community that has been synonymous with Fairmont and will
reopen our campuses this fall guided by the following principles:
To take into
To protect the consideration To continue to
health and safety the guidelines provide our high-
of our students, established by quality Fairmont
faculty and staff. local, state, and education.
federal authorities.
This document outlines Fairmont Schools’ plan for safely reopening our five (5) campuses
this fall in addition to providing a remote learning platform for those families who elect that
option or if we are required to remain closed. Our plans are the result of months of extensive
research and strategic conversations among the school’s campus leadership, faculty, staff,
parents, ReOpening Task Force, and medical experts. We also continue to investigate the most
recent local, state, and federal guidelines to ensure we are in compliance.
The conversations surrounding these decisions continue to be rooted in what we know is best
for our students coupled with our changing environment.
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PHASED PLANNING
Fairmont Schools ReOpening Task Force, under the advice
of Fairmont’s Executive Leadership, continues to work
to create a reopening strategy that allows for flexibility,
transparency, and prioritizes the health and safety of our
students, faculty and staff.
We are preparing our physical campuses to welcome students in the fall of 2020 (our
Scenario 2), however, we recognize that external events, conditions or mandates may
dictate that we be flexible and ready to pivot once again to a temporary remote learning
model (Scenario 3), if needed.
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Scenario 3: Fully Remote Learning
In this phase, all learning will be presented virtually. Growing from
our experiences this spring, considerable time and effort have
gone into planning for a remote learning program that mimics
more closely the experience Fairmont students are accustomed to,
incorporating synchronous and asynchronous lessons.
Scenario 2: Modified On-Campus Learning*
Scenario 2 is an in-person learning environment, with modifications
to on-campus routines and activities including small consistent
groups, physical distancing, as well as digital learning components.
Scenario 1: Full Return to Campus
This final phase is when we have a full return to campus and
activities with continued increased sanitation and health and safety
measures in place.
*Fully Remote learning option will also be available for those families
who require such. Remote enrollment contracts will be available soon.
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SCENARIO 1:
FULL RETURN
TO CAMPUS
When the State of California enters its
Stage 4, all regular campus activities at
Fairmont Schools will return.
In this phase:
• We will return to regular drop-off
and pick-up procedures.
• Athletic offerings will be
determined by our local and state
leagues, practices will resume
regularly.
• Regular extended day, homework
club, after school organizations, and
extracurricular offerings return.
• Newly implemented cleaning
routines will continue.
• Use of PPE will not be needed in
this final phase.
• Off-campus field trips return and
will be scheduled, where possible.
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SCENARIO 2:
MODIFIED
ON-CAMPUS
LEARNING*
Fairmont is preparing for Specific answers or a fever over 100.4, will result
in a need for further medical assessment. Anyone
on-campus life to resume in who has come into contact with someone who has
the fall of 2020. Our campuses tested positive for COVID-19 will be required to
have been completely sanitized self-quarantine for 14 days since last contact.
and we will follow enhanced Please see your campus-specific information
health and safety precautions for the link to the health questionnaire. Please
and sanitization procedures complete before coming to campus and display
your receipt to the campus member who comes
as outlined by the Centers for to your car.
Disease Control and Prevention
Guidance for Schools.
Illness
Scenario 2 is an on-campus learning environment,
with modifications to routines and activities These policies have been implemented:
including physical distancing, as well as digital Anyone presenting with a fever (100.4 or above)
learning components, which include the following: will be required to remain home for 3 days after
fever subsides.
Health Questionnaire and
Anyone with COVID-19 symptoms will be asked to
Temperature Screening remain home and contact their medical provider
for advice.
Following medical advice and federal guidance,
upon arriving at each campus, all faculty, staff,
and students will be asked a series of questions
in addition to having their temperature taken.
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COVID Notification Use of Personal Protective
Based on close contact tracing, anyone Equipment (PPE) on Campus
who has been in contact with someone Faculty, staff, and students will be required to
who reports they are COVID positive will be wear a cloth face covering as mandated by our
notified immediately. Those who have been in state. Students will be provided with a pouch
contact with someone who is COVID positive to keep their masks in while eating lunch or
are asked to self-quarantine for 14 days. We participating in PE or recess outside.
ask all families to notify Fairmont if a student
comes in contact with someone who is COVID Students must come to school each day
positive outside of school. To preserve the wearing a clean mask. We ask students to
privacy, names of positive COVID individuals keep an extra mask in their backpacks at
will not be shared. all times.
* Remote learning will also be available for those domestic families who may desire even if
we are able to provide on-campus learning.
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Specialty Class Instruction for our elementary students
To limit the movement of students throughout the school day. Some specialty classes
will be taught remotely during the regularly scheduled specialty times.
Enhanced Campus Procedures to ensure the health
of all who enter
• Health screens completed prior to building entry.
• Foot sanitization mats prior to building entry.
• Hand sanitizing stations upon entry.
• Enhanced cleaning schedules throughout the day including classrooms,
restrooms, halls and outdoor areas.
• Touchless restroom fixtures.
• Change in hot lunch procedures.
• Physical distancing where able.
• Assemblies limited to outdoor and physically spaced.
• Use of masks except when eating or participating in outdoor activities while
socially distanced..
• Students will remain in one group with their teacher as much as possible to
allow for contact tracing.
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Physical Distancing
Upon entering the building: Outside at recess:
Students will be given specific arrival
instructions to ensure for physical distancing • Students will be introduced to games
upon arrival. that allow for distance and less sharing
of materials. Outside time will be
maximized.
In the classroom:
• Antimicrobial products will be applied
• Desks will be spaced apart to the to outdoor play equipment so children
greatest extent. may still use climbers.
• Extra furniture will be removed to ease • PE classes will focus on teaching
traffic flow. students games to play outside that
• In our early childhood classrooms, allow for distancing.
carpets will be marked so children
sit apart from each other at a proper
distance.
• Students will not share materials in the
classroom to inhibit sharing of germs.
10At snack/lunch time: Modifications to campus
• Where offered, hot lunch will still be access for visitors and parents
available for purchase.
In accordance with state and county
• Salad bars will be replaced with guidelines, Fairmont cannot currently invite
packaged items. anyone that is not a student, staff, or faculty
• Students will eat either in their member on-campus during our school’s
classrooms or outside based on operational hours. This allows for accurate
campus specific schedules. contact tracing if an illness does occur. Please
call the front office if you need anything. (See
• Students who sit at lunch tables will
Drop-Off and Pick-Up Procedures)
sit at alternating spots so they are not
directly across from others.
• Students who bring their lunches are
encouraged to use disposable bags for
Field trips, assemblies, and
the time being. Please send an extra other large gatherings
disposable water bottle to school with
Following CDC guidelines, all large events
your child as our drinking fountains
will be held virtually including but not
and water bottle fillers will not be used
limited to parent association meetings,
this year.
indoor assemblies, and field trips. All field
trips through January 2021 are currently
rescheduled or canceled. Campus events
Capacity limits to in-person including, but not limited to, back-to-school
classes will be implemented based on nights, parent association meetings and
performances will also be held virtually until
physical space limitations
further notice.
In addition to our normally small class sizes,
attendance will be even more limited to
allow for classrooms with physical distancing
Birthday Celebrations
measures.
Due to COVID-19, birthday celebrations in
the classrooms will adhere to the following
Parents have elected remote or on-campus
guidelines. Birthday treats should be
learning for the fall. Alterations to the
prepackaged items only and sent to school
original choice will be allowed only if there
with the child (no parents or other visitors).
is availability or if governmental regulations
This must be pre-arranged with the classroom
change.
teacher.
Parent-Teacher Conferences
This school year, conferences will be done via
video conferencing (Zoom). Teachers will
schedule a time convenient with each family.
11Modified drop-off and pick-up at the beginning of the day, after physical
activity, before and after any snack and/or
procedures lunch, after using the bathroom or any time
Parents will be notified of the schedule they enter a classroom. Restroom fixtures have
and drop-off procedure for each campus. been upgraded to touchless technologies.
Wherever possible, drive-up service will be
used for both and students will be escorted to
and from the building.
SEL (Social
Enhanced focus on
Emotional Learning) teaching
practices
After school offerings limited to In anticipation of the long awaited return to
only extended day our campuses, Fairmont leadership is keenly
Unless enrolled in Extended Day (or paying aware of the critical need to re-engage
the daily “drop-in” fee), students must be students, rebuild relationships, and support
picked up at the dismissal time. For student each other as adults, in order to create a
safety and contact tracing needs, homework foundation for academic learning. Social
club, after-school tutoring, and extracurricular distancing and time away from campus
classes are on hold until further notice. have had a profound impact on our lives; so
it is imperative we focus on creating a safe
environment where student’s and adult’s
social and emotional health can flourish. The
Cleaning procedures quality of our relationships, embedded within
Following guidelines and advice, the campuses a sense of belonging, anchors us together
will implement enhanced sanitization and and inspires our students to academically and
cleaning procedures. Hand washing and/or developmentally thrive.
hand sanitizing will be required for students
12Our resiliency and problem-solving abilities Digital Citizenship
during the pandemic have highlighted the
need for social emotional learning (SEL) Students both in-person and remote are
training and programming now more than ever. reminded that positive and kind digital
Fairmont emphasizes a learning environment citizenship and online behavior is expected
that welcomes and supports students; and SEL while students use their devices. Cyberbullying
provides this platform through a structured is not tolerated.
process. As part of our transition process to re-
open the campuses, Fairmont will implement
SEL systematically by building on our existing
strengths to support students and adults.
Our action plan includes these steps:
1. Strengthening our partnerships and
communicating throughout the school
community that social emotional learning
is fundamental to the holistic success of
Fairmont students.
2. Connecting, healing, and cultivating adult
SEL competencies.
3. Continuing to create a learning
environment that is physically and
emotionally safe.
4. Collecting and reflecting on data that
evaluates student and family perspectives
regarding school climate and culture in
order to identify current strengths and
continuously work to improve support for
all Fairmont stakeholders.
13SCENARIO 3:
FULLY REMOTE
LEARNING
In this scenario, all learning will be presented Individual school closure may be appropriate when there
virtually. Growing from our experiences this are multiple cases in multiple cohorts at a school or when
spring, considerable time and effort is going at least 5 percent of the total number of teachers/student/
into planning for a remote learning program that staff are cases within a 14-day period, depending on the
mimics more closely the experience Fairmont size and physical layout of the school. The Local Health
students are accustomed to, incorporating Officer may also determine school closure is warranted
synchronous (virtual teacher-led instruction) and for other reasons, including results from public health
asynchronous (student-directed and teacher- investigation or other local epidemiological data.
guided) lessons. Students will be required to
participate daily in their core classes while Families electing to begin the 2020 school year with their
learning remotely. child learning remotely will receive a reduction in their
regular tuition. If the whole school is required to pivot back
Our remote learning platform is meant to allow to remote learning only, a tuition discount would be applied
students to blend their learning into their lives after the 11th consecutive school day.
at home. We understand that learning online
and at home is not ideal for every family, but Remote Learning Guidelines for a
may be a desired option even as we begin in
person instruction this fall or may end up being successful education
required. To ensure the success of our remote learners, we have
implemented the following procedures and suggestions.Please
What would initiate remote learning for let your campus administrator know if you have any questions.
students who have elected A separate tech requirement flyer will also be provided.
in-person learning?
• Students need a dedicated learning area where
• If through the daily health screen a they may sit in a chair or sofa, this may be the
student is found to be ill and unable to kitchen table, a desk, or even a card table.
attend school on campus. • Students need a dedicated device with an
• If a student has an immediate family integrated camera. For our PreK through 1st grade
member in their residence who has tested students an iPad is appropriate. For students 2nd
positive for COVID-19. grade through 12th grade, a laptop or desktop
computer is best to allow for the class Livestream
• If a new stay-at-home order is initiated.
and the use of other applications simultaneously.
• Access to a printer is needed to print weekly materials.
We are following all guidelines listed by the
state of California. Individual school closure is • All remote learners must be on-time and ready for
recommended based on the number of cases, all classes in their school uniform polo.
the percentage of the teacher/students/staff • Attendance in classes is required.
that are positive for COVID-19, and following
• Please remember, this is a schooling environment,
consultation with the Local Health Officer.
students may not eat during class instruction and need
14 a quiet environment as free from distraction as possible.FAQs
HOW DOES FAIRMONT ENSURE THE CAMPUS IS PROPERLY CLEANED
AND SANITIZED?
Fairmont ensures our custodial crew are trained in the most up-to-date protocols and
procedures, and with the most effective and safest products available. CDC guidelines are
followed and exceeded on how to prevent, mitigate, and eliminate viruses and bacteria. FDA
guidelines are followed regarding the best and safest products to use in a school with young
children. Local health agencies have also advised how to best sanitize our campuses.
WHAT IS THE PROCESS FOR, AND HOW OFTEN WILL, CLASSROOMS,
BATHROOMS, AND MATERIALS BE CLEANED?
Classrooms and teaching materials will be cleaned and sanitized throughout the day by
teachers and the custodial crew. High-touch areas in all buildings, classrooms, and outside
areas will be cleaned and sanitized continually throughout the day.
WHAT PHYSICAL DISTANCING AND SANITIZING REQUIREMENTS CAN
STUDENTS EXPECT WHEN THEY RETURN TO CAMPUS?
• Hand washing and hand sanitizing will be required for students at the beginning of
the day, after physical activity, before and after any snack and/or lunch, after using the
bathroom or any time they enter a classroom.
• All classrooms and common areas will be equipped with cleaning wipes, hand sanitizer,
and additional sinks.
• Access to lockers and other shared spaces will be limited and controlled.
15I CHOSE REMOTE LEARNING, NOW I WOULD LIKE MY CHILD TO LEARN IN
PERSON, CAN I CHANGE?
Attendance will be limited by space, if there is room, your request may be honored. We ask
that families only request the change at the quarter reporting period. Regular tuition will be
applied upon start date.
IF I CHOSE ON-CAMPUS LEARNING, AND NOW I WOULD LIKE MY CHILD
TO REMAIN HOME, CAN I CHANGE?
Attendance will be limited by space, if there is room, your request may be honored. We ask
that families only request the change at the quarter reporting period. Remote tuition will be
applied upon start.
WILL I BE NOTIFIED IF MY CHILD HAS COME INTO CONTACT WITH
SOMEONE WHO HAS TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID-19?
Yes, due to the highly contagious nature of COVID-19, everyone who has been in contact
with a positive case will be notified. Those persons will be required to self-quarantine for the
following 14 days or provide a negative COVID-19 test result.
16I AM USUALLY CAREFUL ABOUT MY STUDENT NOT MISSING SCHOOL
UNLESS VERY ILL, BUT NOW I WANT TO MAKE SURE EVEN IF THEY ARE
A LITTLE UNDER THE WEATHER THEY CAN STAY HOME. HOW WILL YOU
ACCOMMODATE FOR ABSENCES?
Students who are not well may learn from home at any time through the use of livestream.
Students will log into their Learning Management System to find the links for the day.
MY CHILD HAS A RUNNY NOSE, CAN THEY COME TO SCHOOL?
You know your child best, and know if they are prone to symptoms caused by things like
allergies. A fever is a sign there is a true illness, however, symptoms like a cough or congestion
may be a regular occurrence. More than ever, we do encourage our students, faculty and staff
to remain home when ill.
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