2023-2024 School Year

For the 2023-2024 school year, PVCICS is operating full in person schooling. All students are expected to attend full in person school.

PVCICS recommends students who have tested positive for Covid to consult with their physician on next steps. As with any contagious illness, parents/guardians should keep sick children at home until they are well. This means they no longer have symptoms and have been fever free (unmedicated) for at least 24 hours. PVCICS’s health office will contact parents/guardians to send sick students home so they can rest and get well. Please support this to keep the school population healthy.

PVCICS is continuing to restrict entry to the school building this school year. Entry to non-students is restricted and we will be conducting most meetings virtually. Please do not attempt to enter the building unless you have been invited.

2022-2023 School Year

To report a student’s positive Covid case, close contact or Covid test result, click here. If prompted for a google login, you may use yours or your student’s school login.

For the 2022-2023 school year, PVCICS is operating full in person schooling. All students are expected to attend full in person school.

PVCICS is following the DESE/DPH Covid guidance and these are subject to change as the state guidance changes. The August 15, 2022 DESE guidance is here and the DPH guidance is here.

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2021-2022 School Year

For the 2021-2022 school year, PVCICS is operating full in person schooling. Per DESE, we will not be offering a remote or hybrid learning model. All students are expected to attend full in person school.

PVCICS is following the DESE/DPH guidance on protocols for positive Covid cases, close contacts, isolation, quarantine, and symptomatic people. Links are below and these protocols are subject to change as the state guidance changes.

PVCICS will be discontinuing Test and Stay and contact tracing as per DESE/DPH’s 1/18/2022 guidance. PVCICS will be distributing free Rapid Antigen Test Kits to staff and students who wish to receive them starting the week of 1/24/2022 for staff and the week of 1/31/2022 for students.

PVCICS is keeping Covid health safety measures from Spring 2021 in place with some revisions. Highlights:

•Stay home when sick. Please do not send your child to school if they have not been cleared to attend school and/or if they are experiencing any Covid symptoms including :

Fever or chills

Cough
Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
Fatigue
Muscle or body aches
Headache
New loss of taste or smell
Sore throat
Congestion or runny nose
Nausea or vomiting
Diarrhea

•Masks - please see info and effective dates below:

Effective 4/11/2022, masks are optional inside and on school buses. Prior to this date, masks are required inside and on school buses.
Effective 3/1/2022, masks are optional outdoors. Prior to this date, masks were required outdoors.
Nurses will remain masked at school and masks will continue to be mandatory in the health office at PVCICS. Please ensure that your child has a mask in their backpack during the school day.
Masks are mandatory from day six through day ten after testing positive for Covid when returning to school after quarantining at home. Please continue to keep your children home when they are not feeling well and adhere to the PVCICS illness policy.
Masks are recommended for unvaccinated people.

•Social Distance as much as possible with a goal of at least 3 feet but preferably more, no lockers for MS and HS to keep hall traffic flowing, no water bubblers, etc.

•Lunch will be indoors or outdoors.

Indoor lunch - students may remove masks while actively eating silently. When finished eating, students should put their masks on and can talk.

Outdoor lunch - students in some grades will have outdoor lunch either daily or on rotation, weather permitting. The minimum temperature for outdoor lunch is 40 degrees but this is dependent on humidity and wind conditions.

•Covid Testing - there are many ways to be tested for Covid, see below:

Outside of school - If using an outside test provider, see info on MA Covid test sites is here .
In school pooled testing - If students/staff want, they may register for the school’s “Pooled Testing” program by clicking here.

Note 1/24/2022: PVCICS is suspending the “test and stay” model.

At home using Rapid Antigen Test Kit - Please click here for detailed information including links to training on how to administer the rapid antigen tests. If students/staff want, they may opt-in to the school’s “Rapid Antigen Test Kit” program which will give each participant a rapid antigen test kit every two weeks so that they can test themselves at home once a week (each kit has two tests). PVCICS will be distributing the antigen test kits starting the week of 1/24/2022 for staff and starting the week of 1/31/2022 for students. To opt-in, click here.

•Vaccination – this is a personal health decision, please refer to own health provider. State health information on vaccination is here.

•Isolation and Quarantine – as per state guidance effective May 25, 2022.

•School Day Schedules – start time 8:30 am and dismissals return to 3:30 pm for K/1st grades and 4:00 pm for 2nd-12th grades.

•Busing – Bus windows are open, weather permitting. PVCICS offers both remote buses and local shuttles. See Transportation webpage.

•After-school for K-5 - offered onsite by from the YMCA. Note: no before-school program this school year.

•MS and HS Athletics - see Athletics webpage.

•Continuing virtual parent-teacher conferences and meetings, online forms, report cards, etc.

•Continuing technology loaner program.

These plans are subject to change as health data and state requirements related to Covid-19 are released.

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2020-2021 Re-Opening Plan

For the Fall 2020 semester, PVCICS operated in an all remote model for the health and safety of our students, staff and community members. Students had full time live instruction for a full school day with their teachers.

For the Spring 2021 semester, PVCICS is transitioning to in person learning for K-12 graders and has Covid health measures in place to keep our students, staff and community members healthy.

The Spring semester schedule for the return of students is as follows:

K-5 - full return to in person started March 29, 2021.
Middle school - hybrid alternating week model started March 29, 2021, with full return to in person April 26-28, 2021.
High school - hybrid alternating week model started March 29, 2021, with full return to in person expected close to middle school return.

For the Spring semester, parents may opt to keep their child learning remotely.

These plans are subject to change as health data and state requirements related to Covid-19 are released.