Back to School – Health and Safety
On August 3rd, the Ministry of Education released its operational plan for the coming school year. A few highlights of the Ministry’s plans along with Mosedale Secondary School's commitments to health and safety are listed:
1. Students will attend in-person learning daily for the full school day in elementary and secondary schools. Remote learning will remain an option. At Mosedale Secondary School, most students have chosen to return to an in-person classroom.
2. Students in Grades 9 to 12 are required to wear properly fitted non-medical or cloth masks indoors in school, but not outside. At Mosedale Secondary School, we also require all students to wear non-medical or cloth masks.
3. Medical masks are required to be worn by school staff and visitors indoors, but not required outdoors.
4. Distancing between different cohorts in shared indoor spaces should be maintained.
5. All staff and students must conduct a self-screening at home before coming to school. On-site confirmation of that screening may be required at highly transmissible times such as following a holiday.
6. Every occupied classroom at Warwick will have one or more HEPA filter units installed.
7. Students can participate in extracurricular activities and field trips as per relevant provincial requirements under the Reopening Ontario Act. Assemblies will continue to be held virtually.
8. Cafeterias will be open.
