VPS COVID Information

Starting on Wednesday, March 2nd masks will be strongly encouraged but no longer mandatory for in-school use.

The exception to this rule is if a person tests positive for COVID-19, the person MUST mask for days 6-10 following the positive test when returning to school. This is a requirement from the NY State Health Department.

Bus Transportation
As buses arrive, they will release students in a "rolling" drop-off to ensure social distancing as students exit the bus and enter our school. Children will line up 6 feet apart using marks on the sidewalk and enter the school building where they will walk directly to their classroom. VPS staff members will be on the bus loop and in the hallways to welcome your child and walk him or her to the classroom if needed.
 
Personal Transportation
The drop-off door at the southwest corner of the school will open at 9:00. Vehicles will enter the south parking lot (Parking Lot H) and drive to the door to drop off their children at school for the day. Parents are encouraged to pull up by the door and have the child exit the car and walk directly to the door. If a parent chooses to walk their child to the door, they may park in an available parking space across from the basketball court. Please note - Parents and visitors are not permitted inside the school building.  VPS staff members will be at the door to welcome your child and walk him or her to the classroom if needed.

Walkers
Children who are walking to school should plan to arrive around 9:05 and come to the back entrance of the building.

Bus Transportation
Classroom teachers will walk children to their bus each afternoon.
 
Personal Transportation
If you are picking up children in multiple buildings, please begin to move through the pick-up process in the following order based on the buildings you need to visit: ECS to VPS to VIS. 
 
Vehicles will enter the south parking lot (Parking Lot H) and follow the line of cars.  You will stay in your car and a staff member will:

• Ask you the name of the child(ren) you are picking up
• Check your photo identification
• Check the identification with our records

You will then pull forward and join the line moving toward the door on the side of the dining room. A staff member will walk your child out to your vehicle. 

Walkers
Children who are walking home will be dismissed to the main office to sign out. Once they sign out, they will receive a dated slip of paper to show the adults on the bus loop that they have been dismissed as a walker. Then they will exit through the front entrance on to the bus loop and follow sidewalks to their destination.

Assigned seating with students maintaining social distance in the locations within a building that best serve this structure.

Snacks will be eaten in the classroom, maintaining 3 feet of social distance.

Shared materials to be cleaned regularly. A strong focus on hand hygiene will continue.

Students will attend in the special area classroom and will maintain social distancing of 3 feet.

Limited during the 2021-2022 school year and at the discretion of building administrators. No visitors during lunch. Visitors are strongly encouraged but are no longer mandated to wear a mask to enter the building.

Meet and greets / orientations will be in person with social distancing.