A TYPICAL SCHOOL DAY IN ATYPICAL TIMES
How Rappahannock County's public school students will get back to class next week
Parents do a morning check of students for COVID symptoms — fever, chills, cough, shortness of breath, recent loss of smell or taste. If kids show symptoms, they should be kept home.
Students riding buses must wear masks and sit by themselves, with the exception of siblings. Bus drivers also will be masked. Staff at screening stations at the schools will do temperature checks of all students — bus riders and those who arrive in cars — before they’re permitted to enter buildings.
Students will go directly to their first classrooms. No loitering in the halls. Lockers are off-limits.
When in the hallways, students will be required to wear masks and expected to follow directional arrows and social distancing rules.
Students will have access to a hands-free sanitizing stations when they enter classrooms.
All in-person days will start with “morning meetings” where students work on a social and emotional learning curriculum. This is also a time
when classes can have group discussions and students can share concerns they may have.
Students will eat lunch at their desks, each of which will have a plastic shield. Those in the high
school will go to the cafeteria in small groups and then take their lunches back to their desk. The staff is
exploring how to use the cafeteria while maintaining social distancing.
Schedules for high school students will be staggered to reduce traffic in
the hallways.
When classes go outside, their rooms will be sprayed with sanitizer by custodians. This is repeated at the
end of the school day. Major cleaning, such as wiping down walls and windowsills, will happen every Wednesday when all students are at home.