COVID Update - Feb 4, 2022

COVID Update - Feb 4, 2022
Posted on 02/04/2022
COVID UpdateDear Chester Academy Community,

Today we learned that two (2) students tested positive for COVID.  

Grade 7 may have some risk for exposure and Principal Lacroix will be contacting close contacts in separate communications. 

Beginning next week, we will be following the newly released COVID Guidance for Schools  from the New Hampshire DPHS. The reporting requirements for schools will shift from case investigation and contact tracing to focused surveillance and public health efforts on preventing severe outcomes of COVID-19.  As such, we will only be sending a weekly communication with COVID counts home to families each Friday and no longer be identifying and notifying close contacts

The Return to School Committee is meeting again on February 24th and intends to make revisions to our plan including a path to becoming mask-recommended using the state’s new data tracking system. The Chester School Board will consider that plan at it’s March 9th meeting.

Sharon Locke, EdD
Superintendent of Schools