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School Day Health Attestations
FAMILY REQUIREMENTS:
School Day Health Attestations
Monitoring and maintaining open lines of communication about the health of all Fenn community members will be critical as we navigate the school year. Doing so will help to ensure that ill community members remain at home and that Fenn is responsive to any illness that could impact the community.
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Daily health attestations are required.
Before a student arrives at school or boards a bus or van en route to school, his parent or guardian must answer questions about his current health status using the secure health screening app MyMedBot. (By Labor Day, families will receive an invitation to download and set up the app so they can become familiar with it before the start of school.)
Fenn division heads and other personnel will be present at the drop-off circles each morning to confirm that Fenn has received a daily health attestation for every arriving student. Students who arrive to school WITHOUT an attestation will be unable to proceed to their advisory until it is received. They will be supervised in a tent nearby the drop-off circle or in a designated indoor location in inclement weather until an attestation is received. Fenn personnel will contact families (or stop them in the drop-off circle, if possible) to request an attestation as soon as possible.
COVID-19 Symptoms
A parent or guardian will be asked to monitor their student for the following COVID-19 symptoms:
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4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Fever over 100 degrees during the past 72 hours Cough Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing Fatigue Muscle or body aches Headache New loss of taste or smell Sore throat Nasal congestion or runny nose Nausea, vomiting or diarrhea within the past 24 hours
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Boys who arrive late to school must also be checked in before proceeding to class.
They should remain in their vehicle and call 978-369-5800. Fenn personnel will confirm receipt of their health attestation and direct them accordingly.
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If a student is experiencing any of the designated COVID-19 symptoms, his parent or guardian must:
Log the symptoms in MyMedBot and KEEP THEIR STUDENT AT HOME;
Immediately notify Fenn’s Administrator of Health Services, Julie Genova RN BSN, at jgenova@fenn.org, and report their student’s absence via attendance@fenn.org or 978-318-3680 by 9:00 a.m.
Contact their student’s primary care physician to get a test/ evaluation for active COVID-19 infection as directed by the physician.
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Students must also stay home if they have been in close contact with someone who has received a positive
test result for COVID-19. The Fenn Health Office should be notified of these circumstances immediately.
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must communicate with the office of any impacted student’s primary
care physician to review the student’s evaluation and care plan prior to any return to school. If COVID-19 is suspected, the student will be required to stay home for 14 days, per guidelines from the Departments of Elementary and Secondary Education and Public Health.
Students who feel ill or who have suffered an injury during the school day will be sent to the Health Office in the W.W. Fenn Building immediately for evaluation.
Faculty, staff or peers may also urge a student to go to the Health Office if they have noticed someone who may be ill.
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Ill or injured students will be escorted
to the Health Office by adults, and a school nurse will be alerted and ready to meet them. Nursing staff will have Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) at their disposal to use when interacting with ill students.
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The Lovejoy Portrait Room on the first floor of the W.W. Fenn building will serve as a dedicated examination and
isolation room for ill students. Students with injuries will be sent to the standard Health Office examination room.
The external W.W. Fenn Building door nearby to the Portrait Room will be used solely as an entrance to the Health Office (and signage will communicate that). Anyone who needs to enter the W.W. Fenn building for other purposes must use the entrance nearest to the Headmaster’s Office (or at the back of the building). Fenn’s Health Office is equipping all classrooms with basic medical kits to address minor issues such as paper cuts that do not require a nurse’s care. This should limit the number of students who need to visit the Health Office and their exposure to anyone who is ill.
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Each student illness will be assessed based on its own presentation, and if COVID-19 is a possibility, the student
must be sent home. Parents must be ready to pick up their student at any point in the school day, as necessary, or to have a contingency plan in place for another person to do so. Fenn’s Administrator of Health Services, working in concert with the local Public Health Nurse and Board of Health, will assist with follow-up instructions for parents related to the need for student testing and quarantine.
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If Fenn learns of a positive case of COVID-19 in our community, the Concord Board of Public Health will be
notified immediately. The local Public Health Nurse will take the lead on contact tracing, decisions related to quarantining of the impacted Fenn cohort(s) or community members, and notification to the larger community. Fenn Health Office personnel and Administrators will collaborate with the local health authorities during any necessary response.
