亲爱的CBE家庭

随着2019-20学年即将结束，再次感谢您对我们的持续理解和支持。过去几个月对我们所有人来说都是充满挑战的，没有您的帮助我们无法应对！我们还要感谢我们的教师和员工，他们辛勤工作，确保学生在家也能与学习保持联系，确保优质教育的传递。

我还想在我们放暑假之前提供有关我们的复学计划和一些建议的更多信息。

2020-21学年

我们正在继续为学生和教职员工规划下一学年的工作。我们将在8月份根据教育部长宣布学校将遵循哪种"复学方案"后提供更多信息。我们希望我们能够恢复到第一种情景（Scenario 1），或者是接近正常的情况，但我们必须为以下三种情况做好准备。

情景1- 学校全面开放，近乎正常的运作，同时采取健康措施
情景2- 学校部分开放，额外采取健康措施
情景3- 继续居家学习，取消学校课堂活动

无论复学决策如何，我们知道在9月份学校的情况将会有所不同。虽然我们无法消除所有的COVID-19风险，但学校将采取措施来尽量减少风险。这包括：

• 在可能的情况下，创建小组或学生和教师的团队，他们将整天在一起；
• 增加对高接触区域和设备的清洁和消毒频率；
• 确定参加必须遵循额外健康协议的有价值课程的方法（例如体育课、音乐课），并确保清洁多个学生共享的设备（例如计算机、体育器材）
• 创建规律的例行程序，以支持手部卫生和咳嗽/打喷嚏礼仪；
• 执行严格的疾病政策。任何有生病迹象的人将不被允许乘坐校车或进入学校。这意味着家长需要确保如果他们的孩子无法上学，他们有备用的托儿服务；
• 为支持物理距离安全而更改家长接送程序，让学生进入或离开建筑物；
• 利用体育馆和图书馆等空间提供教育课程，以协助实现社交距离；

• 为使用自行车的学生开发新的程序，包括指定座位和学生上下车方式；以及
• 组织和计划应用协议和在线教学，以便我们能够在需要时在不同情景之间转换。

8月1日后，我们将与家庭进行沟通。在开学前，我们会向家庭分享特定学校的详细情况。请确保您的学校拥有您正确的电子邮件地址，以免错过消息。请留意CBE网站以获取更多更新，并关注我们的Twitter（@yycbedu）。

调查结果

感谢所有参与了复学学生、教职员工和家长的调查。我们收到了超过73,000份回复。

调查结果的一些亮点包括：

• 家长、学生和教职员工对秋季返校上课表示有些舒适。
• 有关网络学习的整体效果，所有群体都存在分歧。
• 学生中有76%表示他们在网上学习上感到非常或有些舒适。

家长和学生调查的完整结果在我们的网站上可获得。我们将考虑通过这项调查所分享的观点，完善下一学年的计划。

黄色校车注册-截止日期是6月30日

这是黄色校车交通注册的最后通知。由于我们计划根据可能实施的额外健康限制，学生将无法乘坐黄色校车，除非他们提前注册。今年的路线不会在线上提供，只有已注册的家庭才能获取停靠信息。如果您认为您的孩子明年可能乘坐校车，请注册。您不必立即付款，并且在发布路线和旅行细节后，如果您决定做出不同的旅行安排，也不会产生经济处罚。请在6月30日之前注册。

再次，感谢您的支持，祝愿您度过一个安心和安全的夏天。

Christopher Usih
首席教育主管

Dear CBE Families

As the 2019-20 school year draws to a close, we would like to thank you once again for your continued understanding and support. These last few months have been challenging for all of us, and we could not have done it without you! We also thank our teachers and staff for all of their hard work to ensure that students stayed connected to learning while the delivery of quality education continued from home.

I also want to provide some more information about our re-entry plans and some reminders before we break for the summer.

2020-21 School Year

We continue to work on our planning for what the next school year will look like for students and staff. We will have more information in August after the Minister of Education announces which re-entry scenario schools will follow. We are hopeful that we will be returning to Scenario 1, or near-normal conditions, but we must be prepared for all three scenarios below.

Scenario 1 – in-school classes resume, near-normal operations with health measures
Scenario 2 – in-school classes partially resume with additional health measures
Scenario 3 – at-home learning continues, in-school classes are cancelled

Regardless of the re-entry decision, we know that things will look a bit different in our schools in September. While we cannot eliminate all COVID-19 risk, schools will implement measures to minimize risk. This includes:

• Where possible, creating cohorts or groups of students and teachers who will stay together throughout the day;
• Increasing the frequency of cleaning and disinfection of high-touch areas and equipment;
• Identifying ways to engage in valuable courses where additional health protocols must be followed (e.g. physical education, music classes), and ensuring cleaning of equipment that may be shared by multiple students (e.g. computers, gym equipment)
• Creating regular routines to support hand hygiene and coughing/sneezing etiquette;
• Enforcing a strict illness policy. Anyone showing signs of sickness will not be allowed on buses or in schools. This means families will need to ensure they have back-up childcare available if their child is unable to attend school;
• Changing pick-up and drop-off routines for parents to support physical distancing student safety while entering or exiting the building;
• Using spaces such as gyms and libraries to deliver education programs to aid in physical distancing;

• Developing new procedures for students using yellow school buses, including assigned seating and how students get on and off the bus; and
• Organizing and planning to apply protocols and online instruction allowing us to move between different scenarios if required.

We will communicate with families after the Aug. 1 announcement is made. Before classes begin, we will have more details about how things will look in specific schools to share with families. Please ensure your school has your correct email address so you don’t miss out on messages. Watch the CBE website for more updates and follow us on Twitter (@yycbedu).

Survey Results

Thank you to everyone who participated in the re-entry student, staff and parent surveys. We had more than 73,000 responses.

Some highlights of the survey results include:

• Parents, students and staff are somewhat comfortable with returning to in-person classes in the fall.
• All groups were split on whether online learning worked well overall this spring.
• 76 per cent of students indicate they have been very or somewhat comfortable with online learning.

The full results of the parent and student surveys are available on our website. The perspectives shared through this survey will be considered as we finalize our plans for the next school year.

Yellow School Bus Registration – Deadline is June 30

This is the last call for yellow school bus transportation registration. As we plan for additional health restrictions that may be implemented due to Covid-19, students will not be able to ride the yellow school bus unless they have registered in advance. This year routes will not be available online and only registered families will get stop information. If you think your child may be riding the bus next year, please register. You do not have to pay now, and you can change your mind with no financial penalty if you decide to make different travel arrangements after routes and travel details are released. Register by June 30.

Once again, we thank you for your support and we wish you all a restful and safe summer.

Christopher Usih
Chief Superintendent of Schools