Norwich Norwich Public Schools will return to five days of in-person learning starting Monday for all students in preschool through eighth grade for the first time since March 12, 2020, Superintendent Kristen Stringfellow announced to parents and staff Friday.
She said requests for fully remote learning still will be honored, but the model for remote learning will be drastically different.
“The greatest impact is the change in our remote learning pattern,” Stringfellow said during a teleconference with city department heads, state legislators and human services agencies. “We had remote learning that was state-of-the-art.”
Under the two-day hybrid model, only four to six students would be in a classroom at one time, allowing the teacher to offer live, on-screen lessons to students in remote learning. Stringfellow said she felt it was important to have students be able to see their classmates and their teachers during live classes.
Norwich Nearly 200 Norwich Free Academy teachers, administrators and support staff members made their way to the Norton Gymnasium in small groups Friday to receive their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
“It does feel like a milestone,” said NFA job coach Wes Murphy, who also coaches boys basketball and boys and girls volleyball. “I’m able to do what’s needed to get back to our regular schedule and activities.”
Daisy Torres, a member of the janitorial and cleaning staff, said she was ready to get her vaccine. As a cancer survivor, she said she was “so happy” to sign up for the NFA mass vaccination clinic.
He is scheduled to present that plan to the board on March 11. The community has spoken. They want to go back to school, board member Gordon Lord said. We as a board need to make that happen as safe and expeditiously as possible. If we don t try to do it now, when are we going do it? he added.
Riley said he can do this by having a plan in which students maintain 3 feet of distance, rather than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guideline of 6 feet that has been in place since the beginning of the school year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Stonington While 60% of families here want their children to return to more in-person instruction, more than 85% of teachers want to remain in the current hybrid mode for the remainder of the school year.
Those are some of the results of a survey sent to staff and parents to gauge their interest in returning to more in-person instruction amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Board of Education is scheduled Wednesday night to discuss the survey results and Superintendent of Schools Van Riley s recommendation that students in kindergarten and grades 1, 6 and 9 return to four-day a week in-school instruction beginning March 15. The board meets virtually at 7 p.m.
Published March 02. 2021 8:51PM | Updated March 02. 2021 8:56PM
Groton Groton Superintendent Susan Austin said school officials learned Tuesday that a member of the Claude Chester Elementary School community tested positive for COVID-19. We have collaborated with Ledge Light Health District to determine and have already notified close contacts within the school, she wrote in a notification to parents, guardians and staff. The affected person has been instructed to isolate at home following public health guidelines.
She also reported Friday that school officials learned two members of the Groton Middle School community tested positive for COVID-19. She said close contacts were notified, and the individuals were told to isolate at home.