Month: May 2021

The Complex Library is OPEN!

Camilo Machado Uncategorized

Please see important information below:

  • Teachers can check out books for instructional purposes and for students to use
  • Teachers can go to the library and pull books they would like for their classroom and leave them on the circulation desk with a sticky note with their name and room number. 
  • Sue Ferrante will check the books out to the teacher and deliver them to the classroom.
  • On Mondays and Fridays, Sue will be available to pull books on certain themes for teachers (Example: your class is very into ocean animals and you want lots of different books for Read to Self). If you would like books on a certain theme please email Sue Ferrante in advance. (ferrantes@chelseaschools.com) 
  • Books can be returned to the bins in the library at the circulation desk.
  • Books will be checked out to the teachers however, students can borrow books for independent/choice reading.

IMPORTANT! Enrollment Reminder

Nate Meyers Uncategorized

This is for in-person teacher: Please help get out the message below to your classrooms. Please post on Dojo or other communication platforms you use to communicate with families. We had a number of families send samples in without registering. Thanks for your help!

5/13/21

Dear Families,

If you would like your child to participate in our free Covid testing program, just click the link below, answer the questions, and consent to the policies and terms. This should take no longer than two minutes and will only need to be completed once. The lab will not test your sample if you don’t complete this process. If you sent in a sample, and did not complete the enrollment process, please be sure to click the link below and complete the process as soon as you can so that the lab can test your sample. For Spanish, please click the dropdown box at the top right corner of the page and select Spanish.

Please contact your school nurse at 617-466-3518 with any questions.

To get started, simply enroll using the link below.

https://register.veritasgenetics.com/consent/?sid=cHJvZz0xMzcx

5/13/21

Estimadas familias,

Si desea que su hijo participe en nuestro programa gratuito de pruebas Covid, sólo tiene que hacer clic en el siguiente enlace, responder a las preguntas y dar su consentimiento a las políticas y condiciones. Esto no debería tomar más de dos minutos y sólo tendrá que ser completado una vez. El laboratorio no analizará tu muestra si no completas este proceso. Si ha enviado una muestra y no ha completado el proceso de inscripción, asegúrese de hacer clic en el siguiente enlace y completar el proceso tan pronto como pueda para que el laboratorio pueda analizar su muestra. Para el español, por favor haga clic en el cuadro desplegable en la esquina superior derecha de la página y seleccione español.

Por favor, póngase en contacto con su enfermera de la escuela en el 617-466-3518 con cualquier pregunta.

Para empezar, simplemente inscríbase usando el enlace de abajo.

https://register.veritasgenetics.com/consent/?sid=cHJvZz0xMzcx

Pooled Testing Update

Nate Meyers COVID info

Pooled Testing

Weekly COVID POOLED testing for students and staff begins this week. CPS and Sokolowski have sent information both in printed and electronic forms to families via backpacks, ClassDojo, and text message. Families and staff MUST enroll to participate. (This is a different vendor, so it’s a new sign-up at this link (Soko specific); please complete again if you had signed up previously.) Sample collection kits will go home Monday, May 10 and will be collected by Tuesday, May 11 by 9:30AM.  We encourage all staff to participate in this testing program, even if you have been fully vaccinated. If you have tested positive within the past 90 days, you can enroll, but should not submit any samples until 90 days have passed from the end of your isolation period. If you have questions on whether you can submit samples, please ask your school nurse or elementary testing coordinator

-Cindy Brown brownc@chelseaschools.com

Sample Collection

  • Classroom bags of sample collection kits for classroom teachers and paraprofessionals have been passed out by Juliann. There are enough kits for the students and adults in your room. Sample collection kits for all other adults in the building can be picked up in the nurse’s office.
  • Distribute kits for students to take home Monday. For this week (only, I think) send a tube home with EVERY kid, even though not all will have enrolled yet. Please encourage your kids to ask their parents to sign them up and participate.
  • TIP: Consider having kids write their initials and date of birth on their empty tube on Monday, before sending them home. This reduces one step for the families to complete and ensures at least one way their sample can be identified.
  • Students will bring in their saliva sample on Tuesday morning. Decide on how you want kids to deposit the samples into the collection box: for example, you could collect bagged samples in a basket in your room and then put them in the collection box — or, you could direct kids with samples to step out and drop their sample directly into the pick-up box. Boxes will be picked up by nursing staff by 9:30AM Tuesday morning.
  • Enrolled staff can drop their sample into any convenient collection box! It’s fine for sealed samples to mix classes/grades in the collection boxes; the lab uses the unique QR code identifiers when pooling.
  • If a kid says his family forgot to scan the QR code on their tube, it is possible for us to do that — it just asks for the kid’s name and birthdate. You may do so if you wish, or send the child to the nurse with sample to ask for help.

Self-Certification

As of Monday, staff are no longer required to self-certify our health in order to enter buildings.  The health screening for visitors will remain in place as they enter at the Community Entrance.