WELLNESS AND THE FENN COMMUNITY
Maintaining Community Health and Safety Together, we all must do our part to help keep the Fenn community healthy and safe and the campus open for in-person instruction, learning, and community-building. Here are the actions Fenn will require to help maintain the personal health and wellness of all community members: Student Cohorts.
boys in these grades will meet with their math teacher in-person.
The use of cohorts to limit the interaction between students and faculty will be the most significant adjustment to the Fenn experience. All Fenn boys are being assigned to cohorts with which they will remain for the entire school day. They will vary in size based on division, grade, and number of students to disperse and in most cases will include approximately 16 students. Each cohort will be assigned to a specific classroom (and each student to an assigned seat), and the majority of the cohort’s classes will take place there, with faculty coming to them.
Physical Distancing. Six feet of distance will be required between all students, faculty, and staff. Every Fenn classroom and meeting space was analyzed to determine the number of people each could hold after ensuring this distance between individuals, and extensive renovations were made to classrooms. Walls came down between smaller classrooms to create larger ones, and shelves, counter spaces, and larger teacher desks were removed. Seminar and conference tables were also replaced by individual student tables or desks, where necessary.
One exception is morning advisory for larger cohorts, which will divide into two groups and meet with two separate advisors (one in the cohort classroom; the other in another classroom designated for the advisor group). The cohort will then come back together after advisory. Boys will also move as a cohort to some Arts classes – e.g. Wood Shop – that cannot be accommodated well within a cohort classroom.
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*Upper and Middle School Math: In order to maintain the purity of cohorts and differing levels of math instruction, seventh and eighth grade math classes will largely be offered online from cohort classrooms. At least once a week, however,
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