Update on COVID-19 Practices for 2021-22

Students in Grades JK-6 are expected to wear face coverings while indoors regardless of vaccination status, and they may remove their face coverings outdoors.

Unvaccinated students in Grades 7-12 are expected to wear a face covering while indoors, and they may remove their face coverings outdoors. 

Fully vaccinated students in Grades 7-12 are not required to wear face coverings while indoors, with the exception of limited gatherings as outlined below. As a reminder, full vaccination status begins two weeks after the final dose.

We support students and adults who wear face coverings on campus, both indoors and outdoors. 

Face coverings are not required for any community members when outdoors.

Faculty and staff who are unvaccinated are expected to wear face coverings when indoors. 

Faculty and staff who are fully vaccinated are not required to wear a face covering when indoors and socially distanced.

All community members, regardless of vaccine status, will be expected to wear a face covering in certain indoor gatherings and spaces such as lunch lines, buses and large group assemblies. For this reason, everyone should carry a face covering to School.

The School will provide a face covering and mask lanyard to every student at the start of school and disposable masks will be available throughout campus. The School will also provide students in Grades JK-6 with two reusable face coverings.

Parents and students are responsible for ensuring students’ adherence to the School’s masking requirements.

Consistent with state guidance, understanding students’ vaccination status is essential to assessing community transmission. It may also impact whether students are required to quarantine in the event of exposure. Therefore, the School is requesting that families of students who have received a COVID-19 vaccine provide the School with proof of such vaccination by uploading their child(ren)’s COVID-19 Vaccine Record Card and/or complete immunization record including COVID-19 to the Magnus Health SMR account. To do so, please sign in to PawNet through Collegiate’s website. After logging in, you can access Magnus by clicking on the resource board icon titled “Magnus Health.” **Please note: If the School does not receive a COVID-19 Vaccine Record via the Magnus system, we will assume that your child(ren) has not been vaccinated for the purpose of contact tracing. Collecting vaccine status will not be used to enforce mask-wearing at school, and parents and students are responsible for ensuring students’ adherence to masking requirements. 

Staying home when sick is one of the most effective ways to keep our community healthy. We are discontinuing use of the Magnus app for daily attestations, but expect you to ensure your child passes a self-screen daily before your child arrives to campus. 

Temperature screening at School is discontinued.

If there is an exposure or a COVID-positive case in your family, immediately contact your child’s division head. 

Students experiencing COVID-like symptoms will be sent home and required to stay home until their symptoms improve and they receive either a physician's clearance note or a negative COVID test, either rapid or PCR. This applies to both vaccinated and unvaccinated students.

The definition of close contact for K-12 settings has been loosened so that indoors a student who is within 3 to 6 feet of an infected student is not considered a close contact as long as both students are wearing masks. Thus, wearing masks helps prevent exposure and the need for quarantine, as well as preventing illness - and ultimately helps students attend school in person.

We will continue the use of our COVID-19 dashboard to monitor our community’s health, and the dashboard will be accessible to families in PawNet.

Upgraded air filtration systems and nightly sanitization remain in place.

Water bottle filling stations and hand sanitizer dispensers will still be used.

Full service lunch, café and afterschool snack bar will return. Lunch will be eaten in the cafeterias, outdoors, classrooms and other designated areas. The School will provide reusable carry-out containers to students who purchase lunch, and we will sanitize the containers between use.

We intend to offer our full array of academics, athletics, arts and extracurricular programs, with a return to normal as much as possible. In-person events, performances, games, as well as many gatherings and domestic field trips will resume. Specific mitigations are being determined. Athletic competition protocols will be determined in partnership with our leagues and communicated from the athletic department as those protocols become finalized.

There will be more opportunities for students to move throughout campus and for classes and cohorts to mix. Details will be shared by division.

We will optimize the use of outdoor spaces for learning, wellness, eating and recreation.

We look forward to having you on campus. Opportunities for our parents to visit and volunteer on campus will be shared by division.

Debbie Miller, Head of Lower School (804.741.9776, dmiller@collegiate-va.org)

Tung Trinh, Head of Middle School (804.741.9708, tung_trinh@collegiate-va.org)

Patrick Loach, Head of Upper School (804.741.9736, patrick_loach@collegiate-va.org)