Dear Wornick Families,

Thank you for your incredible partnership and support during this week. Our administration, educators, parents, and students all came together magnificently to restart school after winter break. I also want to thank our substitute teachers who stepped in beautifully to instruct our students this week. Yesterday, reports indicated that national COVID-19 cases topped one million. As we have shared before, we believe we have a few tough weeks ahead and our school will do whatever possible to keep our students in school and cohorts open. 

Our health and safety committee is requiring another negative PCR test from all students and professionals to come back to school on Monday. We will distribute PCR tests tomorrow (Thursday) to be taken on Thursday evening and returned to school on Friday. Results should come in on Saturday and negative PCR tests are required to attend school on Monday. We are temporarily moving to weekly tests for students and professionals while COVID-19 rates remain high.

We had a significant percentage of positive tests in our last batch of PCR tests. Thankfully, our community members are mostly experiencing mild to moderate symptoms. We hope for continued health and healing for them. Testing is an important layer of safety in helping reduce transmission at school.

Please continue to be diligent in keeping your student(s) home if they are experiencing any symptoms, email health@wornickjds.org, and wait to return until you are cleared by an administrator. Should they need to be home, they can join class on Zoom, actively listen, and participate when appropriate. To do so, please have your student go to calendar.google.com and log in with the student credentials and the Zoom links for their classes are in their calendars. For any questions, please email Ms. Brouwer at cbrouwer@wornickjds.org.  

Thank you again for your partnership and support as we navigate this time,
L’shalom,
Adam