Older children, youth, and adults will enter through the main doors, which now have a thermal camera installed, which is capable of checking a high volume of people without individual checks, similar to what an airport might use.

Anyone with a temperature will be discretely taken aside, isolated, and asked to see a health provider. This will function more as a reminder to be careful to check for symptoms before attending school.

Safety signage has been installed throughout the school, including maximum occupancies per room.

We have set up signs throughout the school as a reminder, signs which indicate the appropriate distance, and are signaled in the visual ways that children understand. Play areas for each group, and socialization areas, will be marked and limited to only those within a specific “bubble”.

Six handwashing stations have been purchased and installed in high-traffic spots throughout the school. Each station is equipped with soap and water. This encourages frequent hand-washing among our students and staff.

We greatly increased the air flow within the school, mixed it with more outside air, and upgraded our air filters with special MERV-13 filters which are designed to filter most airborne particles out of any recycled air.

Additional custodial staff have been hired and added to the day shift to increase cleaning around the school including high-touch areas (door handles, bathrooms, tables, etc.) and classrooms between cohort use.

This adds to our evening deep cleaning that happens daily after each school day.

Hired four separate on-call teachers, for a total of five, that are full-time Meadowridge faculty. This ensures these teachers will not be working at multiple schools and scheduled teachers have back-up in case of illness and are covered if needing to stay home.

With drop-off and pick-up being the busiest time at a school, we have created staggered times throughout the school to minimize the number of people on campus in common areas (parking lot, sidewalks, etc.). Parents are to wait in their car and not to enter the school without an appointment.

Lunch times have been staggered to make cohort-only eating areas possible. Additional picnic tables and five 30x30 feet tents have been purchased and installed to provide open-air eating areas.

Our campus is spacious enough to allow room for our play areas to be divided to ensure cohorts don't mix during break times on our front and back field.

An electrostatic sprayer and a disinfector were purchased to sanitize and disinfect large areas quickly and efficiently.

Isolated and safe areas have been established for a student or staff member to wait if they present symptoms or have a fever develop during the day. These areas are equipped with an individual thermal camera (generously donated by a parent).

A three-month supply of sanitizer, personal protection equipment (PPE), and disinfectant is kept on-hand.

Installed plexiglass dividers at high-traffic, up-close locations (reception, uniform shop, and finance). As well dividers have been places in change rooms and offices to promote safe social distancing.

To promote physical distancing and cohort-only gathering an additional change room for PHE and athletics has been added.

Hand sanitizer has been place in every classroom and office space throughout the school, with wall-mounted sanitizers in common areas. These are checked daily to check if they need refilling.