Re-opening Plans for the Spring Semester 2021 - revised 13 February 2021

Re-opening Plan WOODSTOCK SCHOOL – 13 FEBRUARY 2021

01 CURRENT SCENARIO

Woodstock School

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.

• The government has not given any SOPs yet for students who have taken the vaccine, so they will be required to follow the same rules as all students until we have clarity.

• Community testing of WS Community will take place from 25th Feb to 6th March for the entire Woodstock community and Woodstock approved Taxi drivers to ensure maximum safety of those students who have booked taxis with them. This will be repeated on and 10th and 12th March along with the Gr 12 student testing.

Rationale: To ensure that the entire community is tested at the same time to ensure that the campus is infection free to start with.

• Testing of Staff and Employees will be conducted every 15 days to ensure the continued safety of the community.

• Students will also 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.

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 12 • Gr 12 students will come in on 4th March all together, since there are only 25 students of each gender returning.

• By Feb 20, they will send soft copies of the following to traveloffice@woodstock.ac.in: 1) Travel Form 2) Parent Consent Form 3) Student Community Agreement form 4) Health insurance including coverage for Covid hospitalization.

• Just before arrival, they will send soft copies of the following to health@woodstock.ac.in: 1) RT-PCR test showing negative result 2) Medical prescriptions and documents 3) Vaccination records (all updates).

• While travelling they will carry: 1) Extra sets of PPE (face masks, face shield, gloves) that they can discard after various points where risk of contamination is higher 2) Small suitcase with all their requirements for quarantine including their study materials.

3) Larger luggage to be sent to the dorms after sanitization (they will not be able to access this during quarantine).

• On arrival at WS, they will carry and present the following : 1) RT-PCR test showing negative result 2) Parent consent form 3) Community Agreement Form 4) Health insurance documents. required for hospitalization 5) Medical documents eg vaccination records, recent test records, prescriptions etc.

2) Evidence that the Aarogya Setu App has been downloaded on their phone.

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Arrival on Campus: Gr 10 • Gr 10 students will come in on 12th March all together, since there are only total 32 students returning.

• By Feb 20, they will send soft copies of the following to traveloffice@woodstock.ac.in: 1) Travel Form 2) Parent Consent Form 3) Student Community Agreement form 4) Health insurance including coverage for Covid hospitalization.

• Just before arrival, they will send soft copies of the following to health@woodstock.ac.in: 1) RT-PCR test showing negative result 2) Medical prescriptions and documents 3) Vaccination records (all updates).

• While travelling they will carry: 1) Extra sets of PPE (face masks, face shield, gloves) that they can discard after various points where risk of contamination is higher 2) Small suitcase with all their requirements for quarantine including their study materials.

3) Larger luggage to be sent to the dorms after sanitization (they will not be able to access this during quarantine).

• On arrival at WS, they will carry and present the following : 1) RT-PCR test showing negative result 2) Parent consent form 3) Community Agreement Form 4) Health insurance documents. required for hospitalization 5) Medical documents eg vaccination records, recent test records, prescriptions etc.

2) Evidence that the Aarogya Setu App has been downloaded on their phone.

02 PLAN AND RATIONALE

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Plan and Rationale: Travel (Grade 10 & 12) • The start date for Gr 12 has been moved to March 4 instead March 1-4 and they are coming in all on the same day.

• The start date for Gr 10 has been moved to March 12 instead of March 10-12 and they are coming in all on the dame day Rationale: Since the numbers are not high, social distancing is possible for these numbers. By bringing the students in later all students complete their quarantine together and Gr 12 students spend only 4 days in quarantine before distance learning starts.

Dorm parents will create activities for them to keep them engaged on those four days, and the remaining 3 days they will be busy with distance learning.

• 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 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 Rationale: Such students can delay travel until they test negative with an RT-PCR certificate after symptoms have cleared.

Woodstock School

Plan and Rationale : Arrival & Quarantine (Grade 12 & 10) • 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 community.

• Student is checked into the quarantine rooms – 1 child per room filling floors in order of arrival – quarantine for 7 days.

Rationale: Isolation period before 2nd RT-PCR test to cover incubation time.

• Staff supervising them in the quarantine centre will be in full PPE, 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 entire community – staff, employees and the Gr 12 students who have completed quarantine.

Rationale: To ensure the safety of the entire campus together and complete govt. protocols, by submitting these certificates to the Secretary of Education’s office.

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Plan and Rationale: New normal (Grade 12 & 10) • On the 8th day students who test negative are transferred to their dorms – Midlands and Hostel. All Gr 12 testing results are expected to come in on 11th March.

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, and the concept of 'families' was not considered acceptable.

• 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.

Woodstock School

Plan and Rationale: School level (Grade 12 & 10) • 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.

• 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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Plan and Rationale (Grade 6-9 and 11) • Gr 11 & 9 return to campus can be considered after Gr 12 and 10 are in – earliest possible start of April.

Rationale: Uttarakhand govt has permitted Grade 6-12 to return to school, provided the protocols can be maintained. If all goes well with Gr 12 and 10, we will attempt to bring back Gr 11 and 9.

• Gr 6-8 plans will be put in place based on SOPs issued by the Uttarakhand govt for boarding schools.

Rationale: We do not have enough space on campus to manage all grades and still remain in compliance with the protocols.

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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.

• Staff, day scholars and employees will be tested every fortnight.

Rationale: To protect the community as staff have the option to go off campus for daily living.

• Staff, day scholars and employees who live off campus will be tested every week.

Rationale: To protect the community as staff have the option to go off campus for daily living.

• Community testing will take place from 25 February to 6 March.

Rationale: To protect the community as staff have the option to go off campus for daily living.

Woodstock School

Blended Learning • Blended learning means that 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.

• Students joining remotely and in-person will be able to view and interact with one another using Zoom and other applications.

• Students attending lessons in person will need both a laptop and headphones to enable them to work effectively in groups with peers who are joining remotely.

• 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

Woodstock School

Health Facilities • Three health facilities have been identified and will be prepared: 1. Health Centre will serve as the health facility for non covid cases.

2. Ridgewood will be converted into a Covid care/quarantine centre with two fully separated wings. a) One wing is for students in quarantine on arrival. b) The other wing will serve as a Covid centre for students who are suspected of having Covid, who are being tested and awaiting results in isolated rooms.

3. A section of the Covid Centre will serve as the isolation Centre for Covid positive students. It will have dedicated nurses.

• Sample collection for Covid will be done on campus by qualified lab technicians from a Dehradun firm with whom we are negotiating a contract.

1. Both RAT and 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 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 are in the process of finalizing the agreement with Max Hospital for Woodstock students' safety, care and admission.

Thank you.