Author: ovgoldeneagles
Week of Jan. 24 – 28, 2022
Dear Olympic View families and friends,
Please be sure to read the new protocols for COVID 19 exposure. After reading the new guidelines, if you have any questions, you can email COVTEST4@cvesd.org
Dear CVESD Staff and Families:
Over these past few weeks, the CDPH and San Diego County provided multiple updates to COVID guidelines for schools.
One of the most significant changes applies to if your child is exposed to a positive COVID case at school. There is an adjustment, effective immediately, to the contact tracing process at schools called group-tracing.
The new group-tracing approach to students exposed to a positive COVID case at school allows for a quicker and broader response through prompt notification, testing, and isolation protocols. Anyone who spent more than a cumulative total of 15 minutes (within 24 hours) in shared indoor airspace (e.g., for example, an entire classroom or an entire athletic team during practice) will receive an email notification. Because being exposed to somebody with COVID does not necessarily mean that your child will become infected, public health says your child may remain in school if you receive this notification, unless they develop symptoms or test positive. In addition to wearing a mask and monitoring for symptoms, it is required your child get tested within 3-5 days after the last contact with the positive individual. Proof of a negative test does not need to be submitted in this case. Any positive results should be reported to your child’s school immediately.
This group-tracing strategy also allows for schools to continue to provide safe in-person instruction without excessive quarantining for students and without tying up valuable staff time to undertake intense (and often protracted) contact tracing processes to try to identify individual students who were within a specified radius of someone infected.
What Do You Do When You Receive an Exposure Letter?
According to the updated San Diego County Office of Education (SDCOE) Decision Tree, your child must test, regardless of vaccination status or prior COVID-19 infection, at least one time between days 3-5 from the last date of exposure on the letter/email. You must report only positive test results to the school site. Please do not send negative results.
What If I Don’t Want My Child to Test?
Parents can opt-out of the group tracing. The student will be excluded from school and extracurricular activities for 10 days per County of San Diego guidance.
Which Test Should I Take?
PCR or antigen are both acceptable for group contact testing, but it is highly recommended that individuals who have had a history of testing positive for COVID-19 in the last 90 days use an antigen test. Home antigen tests are allowed.
Staff and Preschool will continue to use close-contact notifications
If you have questions about this guidance, please reach out to members of our COVID-19 response team at covtest4@cvesd.org.
If there is an exposure in preschool, students musts be out of school for 10mdays.
We continue to appreciate your partnership in keeping your child home when symptomatic or COVID positive so we can provide a healthy learning environment for all.
Jenny Venyak
Benefits and Risk Manager
Chula Vista Elementary School District
Link to Decision Tree: https://covid-19.sdcoe.net/Portals/covid-19/Documents/Health%20Practices/COVID-19-Decision-Tree.pdf?updated=011222
Link to FAQ’s https://covid-19.sdcoe.net/Health-Practices/Guidelines-for-Schools#faq
Comunicación del Distrito de Escuelas Primarias de Chula Vista
Estimadas familias y personal de CVESD:
En estas últimas semanas, el CDPH y el Condado de San Diego proporcionaron múltiples actualizaciones a las pautas de COVID para las escuelas.
Uno de los cambios más significativos se aplica a si su hijo está expuesto a un caso positivo de COVID en la escuela. Hay un ajuste, efectivo de inmediato, al proceso de rastreo de contactos en las escuelas llamado rastreo de grupo.
El nuevo enfoque de rastreo de grupo para los estudiantes expuestos a un caso positivo de COVID en la escuela permite una respuesta más rápida y amplia a través de protocolos de notificación, pruebas y aislamiento rápidos. Cualquier persona que haya pasado más de un total acumulado de 15 minutos (dentro de las 24 horas) en un espacio aéreo interior compartido (por ejemplo, un salón completo o un equipo atlético completo durante la práctica) recibirá una notificación por correo electrónico. Debido a que estar expuesto a alguien con COVID no significa necesariamente que su hijo se infectará, salud pública dice que su hijo puede permanecer en la escuela si recibe esta notificación, a menos que desarrolle síntomas o dé positivo. Además de usar un cubrebocas y monitorear los síntomas, se requiere que su hijo se haga la prueba dentro de los 3-5 días posteriores al último contacto con la persona positiva. No es necesario presentar una prueba de una prueba negativa en este caso. Cualquier resultado positivo debe ser reportado a la escuela de su hijo inmediatamente.
Esta estrategia de rastreo de grupo también permite que las escuelas continúen brindando instrucción segura en persona sin cuarentena excesiva para los estudiantes y sin comprometer el tiempo del personal para llevar a cabo procesos intensos (y a menudo prolongados) de rastreo de contactos para tratar de identificar a los estudiantes individuales que estaban dentro de un radio específico de alguien infectado.
¿Qué hacer al recibir una carta de exposición?
De acuerdo con el árbol de decisión actualizado de la Oficina de Educación del Condado de San Diego (SDCOE), su hijo debe hacerse la prueba, independientemente del estado de vacunación o la infección previa por COVID-19, al menos una vez entre los días 3 y 5 a partir de la última fecha de exposición en la carta/correo electrónico. Solo debe informar los resultados positivos de las pruebas a la escuela. Por favor, no envíe resultados negativos.
¿Qué pasa si no quiero que mi hijo se haga la prueba?
Los padres pueden optar por no participar en el rastreo de grupo. El estudiante será excluido de la escuela y las actividades extracurriculares durante 10 días según la pauta del Condado de San Diego.
¿Qué prueba debo tomar?
La PCR o el antígeno son aceptables para las pruebas de contacto de grupo, pero se recomienda encarecidamente que las personas que han tenido antecedentes de haber dado positivo por COVID-19 en los últimos 90 días usen una prueba de antígenos. Se permiten las pruebas caseras de antígenos.
El personal y el preescolar continuarán utilizando las notificaciones de contacto cercano
Si tiene preguntas sobre esta pauta, comuníquese con los miembros de nuestro equipo de respuesta a COVID-19 en covtest4@cvesd.org.
Continuamos apreciando su cooperación manteniendo a su hijo en casa cuando tenga síntomas o resultado COVID positivo para que podamos proporcionar un ambiente de aprendizaje saludable para todos.
Jenny Venyak
Gerente de Prestaciones y Riesgos
Distrito de Escuelas Primarias de Chula Vista
Enlace al árbol de decisión: https://covid-19.sdcoe.net/Portals/covid-19/Documents/Health%20Practices/COVID-19-Decision-Tree.pdf?updated=011222
Enlace para preguntas frecuentes: https://covid-19.sdcoe.net/Health-Practices/Guidelines-for-Schools#faq
We are excited to share a new testing program that will be part of keeping our schools the safest in the state of CA. You will be receiving an email from COVID Clinic. This is not spam. This is a permission slip to sign up your child for weekly testing. This weekly testing will be provided in your student’s classroom by licensed health care professionals. This test will allow us to ensure that our students, staff, and community are safe and healthy. Please provide consent as soon as you receive it to assist us in keeping our schools open.
Thank you,
Lisa Lines, Principal
Tuesday, Jan. 25 – DAC/DELAC – 12:00 pm English Agenda Spanish Agenda
The American Heart Association’s Kids Heart Challenge program kicked off on Friday 1/14. Help your child get a jump start by downloading the FREE Kids Heart Challenge App for Apple or Android or visiting http://www2.heart.org/goto/olympicviewschool When registering, your child will choose a heart healthy challenge to Be Active or Be Kind and earn a FREE Road Warrior Wristband! Our goal is to have 100% of our students register online and take the Challenge.
We started Habit #4, Think Win Win. You can CLICK HERE for ideas on how to support this habit at home.
Town Hall PDF, Courtesy Notice and Reminder
If you missed the COVID Town Hall last week, here is a PDF of the Power Point
If you received notice that your child is a close contact, please be sure to read all the information in the DOJO message and follow all directions. If you have any questions regarding isolation or quarantine, please send to COVTEST4@CVESD.ORG
If your child tests positive using a home kit or at facility OTHER THAN the District or Hedenkamp, please use the form below to report the positive case. You will be contacted with a return date. If you test at the district or Hedenkamp, you DO NOT need to fill out this form.
Courtesy Notice
Week of Jan 17 – 21, 2022
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Monday, Jan. 17 – No School
Wednesday, Jan 19 – Our Jan. SSC meeting has been cancelled. Our next meeting is Feb. 16 at 4 pm.
In observance of Martin Luther King Jr., CVESD’s COVID-19 testing centers at both the District’s Education Services and Support Center (ESSC) and Hedenkamp Elementary School will be closed on Monday, January 17, 2022. Both sites will reopen for testing during their regular hours on Tuesday, January, 18, 2022.
Covid Questions and Info:
If you receive notice that your child is a close contact, please be sure to read all the information in the email and follow all directions. If you have any questions regarding isolation or quarantine, please send to COVTEST4@CVESD.ORG
If your child tests positive using a home kit or at facility OTHER THAN the District or Hedenkamp, please use the form below to report the positive case. You will be contacted with a return date. If you test at the district or Hedenkamp, you DO NOT need to fill out this form.
Positive COVID-19 Test Reporting
If you have any general COVID questions you can email CovTest4@cvesd.org.
REMINDERS:
Please DO NOT send your child to school with any type of symptoms
DO NOT send your child to school if they live with someone who has tested positive.
**If you were unable to attend the town hall meeting, I am working on getting the link to the recording, and the powerpoint.
The American Heart Association’s Kids Heart Challenge program kicked off on Friday 1/14. Help your child get a jump start by downloading the FREE Kids Heart Challenge App for Apple or Android or visiting http://www2.heart.org/goto/olympicviewschool When registering, your child will choose a heart healthy challenge to Be Active or Be Kind and earn a FREE Road Warrior Wristband! Our goal is to have 100% of our students register online and take the Challenge.
We started Habit #4, Think Win Win. You can CLICK HERE for ideas on how to support this habit at home.
Courtesy Notice
COVID QUESTIONS AND INFO
If you received notice that your child is a close contact, please be sure to read all the information in the email and follow all directions. If you have any questions regarding isolation or quarantine, please send to COVTEST4@CVESD.ORG
If your child tests positive using a home kit or at facility OTHER THAN the District or Hedenkamp, please use the form below to report the positive case. You will be contacted with a return date. If you test at the district or Hedenkamp, you DO NOT need to fill out this form.
Positive COVID-19 Test Reporting
If you have any general COVID questions you can email CovTest3@cvesd.org.
This is just a friendly reminder to join us for the COVID-19 Update Virtual Town Hall Meeting, Today, January 13th, 6:00pm – 7:00pm.
Join us to hear more on this important topic and to participate in a Q and A session.
If you would like your question answered during the town hall meeting, please click on the button below.
https://tejoin.com/scroll/514936831
Courtesy Notice
IMPORTANT!
Good Afternoon OV Friends and Family,
The district has a new procedure for you to report your child’s Positive home test results. This procedure is for any test you take OTHER than those at the District or Hedenkamp Elementary. Thank you for your support during the ever changing protocols!
- Please use THIS FORM to report your child’s positive case (no need to use this link if you tested at the District or Hedenkamp Elementary).
- If you have already reported your child’s positive case to the COV3 email, there is no need to fill out this form.
*Please DO NOT send your child(ren) to school if they have ANY symptoms.
*Please DO NOT send your child to school if they live with someone who is positive for COVID.
Thank you and Stay Healthy and GOLDEN!
My Child’s Test Was Positive…Now What?
Dear OV Families and Friends,
Please read THIS LETTER for further instructions regarding positive tests and what to do if there is a positive family member in the home.
Olympic View Elementary-A Leader in Me School 