Re-opening Plan – Gr 11 WOODSTOCK SCHOOL – 16 APRIL 2021
01 CURRENT SCENARIO
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Current Scenario • Students who opt not to return have the option to continue distance learning from home, following the same bell schedule followed by students in school. Students also have the option to wait and join a little later, subject to availability of quarantine rooms. • Students who have taken the vaccine will be required to follow the same rules as all students. • Community testing of Woodstock School community is now complete. • Random Testing of Staff and Employees will be conducted every 15 days to ensure the continued safety of the community. • Students will be tested twice, once before they travel and once after their quarantine. Students should not travel if their test is positive, or if they or anyone in their family is symptomatic/has tested positive. Rationale: Such students can delay travel until they test negative with an RT-PCR certificate after symptoms have cleared.
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Arrival on Campus: • Gr 11 Students will come in on Friday, 16 April 2021. • By Monday, 5 April at the latest, returning students must send soft copies of the following to traveloffice@woodstock.ac.in: 1. Travel forms: Download Return to School form here 2. Parent Consent Form: Download Parent Consent form here 3. Community Agreement Form: Download Student Community Agreement form here 4. Health insurance policy, covering hospitalization in case the student tests positive for Covid19 • The day before arrival, parents must send soft copies of the following to health@woodstock.ac.in: 1. Covid RT_PCR certificate - within 72-hours, in line with Government regulations. • During their travel, students should avoid all contact with any other travelers and come directly to Woodstock School without stopping to meet friends or family in the area.
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Arrival on campus • While travelling they will carry: 1) Small suitcase with all their requirements for quarantine including their study materials a. Laptop, charger, headphones/earphones b. Textbooks, study materials for the first week, etc. c. Tuck (note there will be no access to the kitchen during quarantine) d. Two water bottles. e. Personal toiletries (toothbrush, toothpaste, small shampoo, soap. toilet paper) f. Comfortable lounge clothes and underwear for a week - no laundry will be done during quarantine week after the first change. g. A light jacket/sweater h. Warm socks and slippers i. Personal towels j. Quilts will be provided but you may bring an extra blanket if you feel the need to. 2) Larger luggage to be sent to the dorms after sanitization (they will not be able to access this during quarantine). Each piece to be clearly labelled with your name and your dorm (Midlands/Hostel). This bag will be sent to your allotted room. a. Clothes to wear to school b. Anything you won't need in the first week 3) Extra sets of PPE (face masks, face shield, gloves) that they can discard after various points where risk of contamination is higher
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Arrival on campus • On arrival at WS, they will carry and produce the following at check in : 1) RT-PCR test showing negative result within the last 72 hrs 2) Parent consent form 3) Community Agreement Form 4) Health insurance documents including coverage for Covid hospitalization 5) Routine Medical documents eg vaccination records, recent test records etc. 6) Medication with prescriptions
02 PLAN AND RATIONALE
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Plan and Rationale: Travel
• The grade 11 students are encouraged to return to campus in one batch on 16th April. Rationale: Bringing students together allows for testing to be done in the dorms itself as the labs will come to Woodstock School for larger numbers. Individual students who come on a different schedule will have to be taken to LCH for testing. • Students who are in regular contact with each other, or siblings/cousins of the same gender in the same grade, can travel together and may request to spend their quarantine together. Rationale: The risk of infection from each other is low and they can keep each other company in quarantine. • Students to do a RT-PCR test around 24-72 hrs before their departure (subject to how long it takes to get the result). Rationale: As a first level of checks and to ensure that students who are sick do not travel. • Students should not travel if the test is positive, or if they or anyone in their family is symptomatic or has tested positive. Rationale: Such students can delay travel until they test negative with an RT-PCR certificate after symptoms have cleared.
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Plan and Rationale : Arrival & Quarantine • On entry, thermal screening at the gate for all members in the vehicle. Woodstock is now a No Mask, No Entry campus. Only one car at a time will be allowed into the parking lot. The next car waits till the student has disembarked and the first car has left. Rationale: To enable social distancing on arrival. If anyone in the car has a temperature, the student will not be allowed on campus, and should consult a doctor. • Accompanying family members will not be allowed to enter the campus beyond the Ridgewood parking lot. All meetings with dorm parents, nurses, other staff will have to be virtual. Rationale: To minimize contact with the external community. • Student is checked into the quarantine rooms – 1 child per room in quarantine for 7 days. Rationale: Isolation period before 2nd RT-PCR test to cover incubation time. • Dorm parents will supervise them in the quarantine centre and food will be served on trays to each room. Rationale: To minimize contact, ensure contact tracing and for the safety of all. • RT-PCR test is conducted on the 7th day for the batch. Rationale: To ensure the safety of everyone on the campus.
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Plan and Rationale: New normal • On the 8th day students who test negative are transferred out of quarantine rooms to their dorm rooms. Rationale: To establish the new normal in the dorms. • Students will be housed two to a room where they can interact with each other without masks or social distancing in their rooms. In the corridors, classrooms, and at school level, masks will be worn at all time. Rationale: The government SOPs are strict about masks and social distancing are strict. • Outside vendors not allowed, no Out of Boarding (OB), no visits home, no ordering in, no open bazaar. Students travel only between school and dorms. Students will be escorted by dorm parents to and from school. Dorm parents will be masked when interacting with students. Rationale: To minimize outside contact and therefore risk. • Employees will have minimum or no contact with students and will be masked and socially distanced when in the vicinity. Rationale: To minimize contact with anyone who has contact with the outside world.
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Plan and Rationale: School level • Masks at all times in classrooms and in corridors. Masks can be removed when in their own room. Rationale: To establish the new normal in the dorms. • Student can eat together in groups of two but be seated diagonally from each other and socially distanced from the other groups. Rationale: To allow for the mental well-being of the students, but to be cautious since one has to be unmasked to eat. • Seating in classrooms will be socially distanced. Rationale: All interaction outside of dorm rooms will have to be with masks and social distancing for their protection. • Classrooms, dorms, toilets and frequent contact points will be regularly disinfected. Rationale: For sanitization purposes, and protection of the community. • Students will be briefed thoroughly on all protocols on arrival and with the help of signage around school. Consequences will be established for students who violate the protocols, which could include sending them back home. Rationale: To ensure that the community is not put at risk. • Students who wish to return later may continue distance learning and come in later, subject to availability of quarantine rooms. IB exams will be held on campus, and we are exploring options for those students who cannot return. Rationale: To ensure that student learning continues whether they return or not.
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Protocols for staff/day scholars • Staff and employees will be masked and follow social distancing from each other and students. Rationale: To protect the students. • Day scholars will follow the same protocols as boarders. Rationale: To protect the community. • Random testing of Staff, day scholars and employees who live off campus will be tested will be conducted. Rationale: To protect the community as staff have the option to go off campus for daily living. • Community testing is complete. Rationale: To protect the community and meet government protocols.
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Blended Learning • During Blended learning, classes will run with a blend of in-person and remote students studying alongside one another. • Blended learning will take place per the current timetable of 40-minute classes: https://www.woodstockschool.in/springsemester-timetable-2021/ • Students not returning to Woodstock will continue to join class remotely via Zoom. Students joining remotely will still be able to view and chat with the teacher and the students who are in the Woodstock classroom. • All students are requested to bring their laptop and headphones/earphones to classes to enable group and project work with the students who are joining remotely. The earphones are to prevent feedback in the classroom. • Students and teachers will be masked and socially distanced in the classroom.
03 HEALTH FACILITIES
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Health Facilities • Three health facilities are in place: 1. Health Centre will serve as the health facility for non Covid cases. 2. Ridgewood will be converted into a Covid care cum quarantine centre with two fully separated wings. a) One wing will serve as a Covid centre for students who are suspected of having Covid, who are being tested and awaiting results in individual rooms. b) The second wing will be used as a quarantine centre. 3. A section of the Covid Centre will serve as the isolation Centre for Covid positive students. It will be under constant supervision by the health team. • Sample collection for Covid testing will be done for batches on campus by qualified lab technicians from LCH and the testing is done by a reputed firm in Dehradun. 1. RT-PCR tests will be administered for students who are symptomatic. 2. All students who have been in contact with or suspect they have been exposed to Covid 19 cases will be quarantined for 7 days with the RT-PCR test to be conducted after the incubation period. • Cases with medium to high symptoms will be admitted at Max Hospital in Dehradun. 1. At present, Max Hospital is willing to take both symptomatic as well as asymptomatic cases. Students will be taken to the hospital, in consultation with parents. 2. We have an agreement with Max Hospital for Woodstock students' safety, care and admission. 3. Max hospital senior staff have been on campus to train our staff on sanitization. 4. A team of nurses, drivers and staff have been to Max hospital for Covid training.
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