July 14 - Alert Now Message
Many area schools are announcing their plans for restarting. We certainly respect the challenges they are facing when attempting to provide services to so many students within the guidelines. We are very blessed to have tremendous facilities, staff, and low student teacher ratios.
Opening in April with our Pandemic Childcare License really allowed us to predict the obstacles and to properly predict the guidelines that were released. Although our staff are still working on some of the smaller details, we are well past the biggest challenges.
At this time, we need to ask for you to repeat the survey related to before and after care hours. We are working to assign students into groups that will minimize room and/or group changes. We expect most of these services to be in classrooms or at least with similar children. Repeating the survey with the inclusion of your earliest drop off time and latest pickup time will be very helpful. You will not be obligated to use these times. But knowing your worst-case scenario helps us to plan for our best! This is the link to the survey.
Open House - The parent open house meeting is still on schedule for July 30th at 7 pm by zoom. We will send a link to your Montessori Compass Account a few days before this meeting. A reminder will also be sent with Alert Now.
Staffing - We need to hire two preschool assistant teachers and several aftercare staff members. You are our best referral system. A link will be placed on our website (Under Careers) later today. The preschool assistants will work with Allie DeHass and Kassandra Porter. We needed to add a fourth section (split the team) to have smaller groups for the Fall.
Supplies - In an attempt to minimize the sharing of materials, we are going to ask families to provide some basic school supplies for your child. We are working on a list of Back to School materials. These will be very basic items. You do not need to provide new items for your child. We are looking at a uniform storage container for your items.
Sanitation - Our electrostatic sanitation devices are starting to arrive. These are probably one of the things we should have had before COVID-19. They are going to expedite the sanitation of the rooms and kill the other unwanted things students share daily.
Wellness Checks - WOW - We have about 40 parents willing to assist with these in the morning. We are still wanting the first one to be done on-site to assure we are all looking at the same criteria. We want the 8:30 - 9 to be curbside to keep the traffic flowing. Multiple new entrances have been created to minimize exposures also
Do you have some time to share? We need some volunteers to:
Assemble storage cabinets
Assemble portable handwashing stations
Build plexiglass dividers
Weeding of flower beds
Trail maintenance
Power washing
Porch floor painting
Please email or call Mr. Joe at 330-231-4459