Weekly Update 12/8

 Dear Wines Families, 

I have just a couple of announcements this week: 

Vaccine/Quarantine Update

We are fortunate that we continue to be only minimally impacted by COVID cases in our school. With that said, we do continue to have cases resulting, unfortunately, in the need to quarantine close contacts from school. Now that vaccines are available for those five and older and many of our students have begun the vaccine regimen, I’ve had a number of questions about what this means for future cases. Moving forward, when we have a reported positive COVID case, we will initiate our same case investigation as we always have and identify close contacts. We will contact families alerting them that their child is a close contact. We will then inquire about vaccine status. If a close contact can provide documentation of being two weeks past their second vaccine dose, then that student does NOT need to quarantine from school provided they do not have symptoms. This is an exciting development as we anticipate the need for fewer students to quarantine and, hopefully, fewer cases overall as more of ours students are vaccinated. 

Food Drive Ends Tomorrow

Our extended food drive will end tomorrow. The extra days have been helpful as our bins have begun to really fill up! If you would like to donate, tomorrow is the final opportunity. 

Reminder: Picture Re-Take Day Dec. 15

Picture Re-Takes are next Wednesday. If your child did not have their picture taken, they will have it taken Wednesday. You can order a package at https://inter-state.com/FlyerEntry/62321Z. If you would like a re-take, please bring in your previous package. All Wines student have their picture taken and all students receive a yearbook whether you order a package or not. 

Lost and Found

Our Lost and Found has been sorted and displayed for a number of days and kids have done a great job of locating missing items! We will display the remaining items until next Wednesday. After that, remaining items will be donated. Please encourage your child to look for any missing items. This is a good opportunity to remind families to please try to label all of your kids items so we can find the owner without needing the Lost and Found. 

Best, 

David