Our response to covid-19
FAQs
1. What Is Blossoms Montessori Preschool Doing To Plan And Prepare For This Situation?
Our top priority is ensuring the safety, health, and well-being of our students, staff, and families. We have existing policies and protocols in our daily operations to ensure everyone’s safety.
2. What Are Your Sanitation Guidelines?
Families and Staff are taught and required to:
Staff are required to:
3. What Are Your Safety Guidelines?
DO NOT COME TO SCHOOL IF YOU ARE SICK
If your child is showing any possible COVID-19 symptoms (fever, cough, shortness of breath, aches, sore throat, diarrhea), or if you have any of these symptoms, please stay home! We are asking everyone to think of the health of the community as you decide whether to go to places where you are in close contact with others. If your child is sick, stay home. Ideally if there is anyone in your home that is showing symptoms, all should stay home.
OFF-LIMITS TO ADULT NON-STAFF MEMBER
We are limiting the entry of non-staff adults in our main building. Parents and guardians are only able to drop their kids from our main doors. Our main entrance doors will remain locked the entire day. We have installed doorbells in our buildings to let you in for drop off and pick up.
CONTACTLESS SIGN IN / SIGN OUT
Our childcare management app, which we use a no contact method to sign in / out your child. All you need to do is scan the QR code posted to sign in / out your child.
MINIMIZED PERSONAL BELONGINGS
In order to ensure that we keep a sanitized environment, we ask that you refrain from having your child bring personal belongings that are not needed for the day.
ISSUED FACE MASKS
Per the CDC guidelines and recommendation of wearing masks in public, we issue our staff face masks to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
CONTACTLESS PAYMENT PROCESS
Our childcare management app, will be our tool to issue invoices and collect payments. We are implementing an Auto Pay payment process for all families enrolled with us.
HAND SANITIZER STATION
We have hand sanitizer station at the entrance.
4. Do You Have Enough Cleaning Supplies To Maintain Continuous Operation?
We have enough cleaning & disinfecting supplies. We have made advanced order to our suppliers for some low supply cleaning supplies.
Our top priority is ensuring the safety, health, and well-being of our students, staff, and families. We have existing policies and protocols in our daily operations to ensure everyone’s safety.
2. What Are Your Sanitation Guidelines?
Families and Staff are taught and required to:
- To wash hands frequently & thoroughly with soap (minimum of 20 seconds).
- Cover your mouth and nose with facemasks.
- Refrain from touching your own nose, mouth and eyes.
- Refrain from touching each other or sharing items.
- Minimize bringing in personal belongings to school.
- Temperature check regularly
Staff are required to:
- Use of facemasks at all time.
- Thoroughly spray disinfectant on surfaces, handles, shared objects regularly throughout the day, using directions printed on disinfectant labels to ensure proper use.
- Include the 3 basic best practices, ie, wash hands with soap, cover mouth / nose, no touching in our weekly lesson plans, including the real world experience of doing these best practices with the kids.
- Teach and encourage students to allow physical distancing between each other in the classroom & play area whenever possible.
- Practice physical distancing during break time, meetings and small gatherings of staff.
- Send students home if it appears they may have a fever or flu-like symptoms.
- Wellness check each staff and student when they come into the building. Wellness includes no contact temperature check, visual signs of cough, colds, sore throat or shortness of breath.
3. What Are Your Safety Guidelines?
DO NOT COME TO SCHOOL IF YOU ARE SICK
If your child is showing any possible COVID-19 symptoms (fever, cough, shortness of breath, aches, sore throat, diarrhea), or if you have any of these symptoms, please stay home! We are asking everyone to think of the health of the community as you decide whether to go to places where you are in close contact with others. If your child is sick, stay home. Ideally if there is anyone in your home that is showing symptoms, all should stay home.
OFF-LIMITS TO ADULT NON-STAFF MEMBER
We are limiting the entry of non-staff adults in our main building. Parents and guardians are only able to drop their kids from our main doors. Our main entrance doors will remain locked the entire day. We have installed doorbells in our buildings to let you in for drop off and pick up.
CONTACTLESS SIGN IN / SIGN OUT
Our childcare management app, which we use a no contact method to sign in / out your child. All you need to do is scan the QR code posted to sign in / out your child.
MINIMIZED PERSONAL BELONGINGS
In order to ensure that we keep a sanitized environment, we ask that you refrain from having your child bring personal belongings that are not needed for the day.
ISSUED FACE MASKS
Per the CDC guidelines and recommendation of wearing masks in public, we issue our staff face masks to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
CONTACTLESS PAYMENT PROCESS
Our childcare management app, will be our tool to issue invoices and collect payments. We are implementing an Auto Pay payment process for all families enrolled with us.
HAND SANITIZER STATION
We have hand sanitizer station at the entrance.
4. Do You Have Enough Cleaning Supplies To Maintain Continuous Operation?
We have enough cleaning & disinfecting supplies. We have made advanced order to our suppliers for some low supply cleaning supplies.