Welcome to IVC

Hello Families,

I must apologize but I have not had time to put together the January Newsletter in my normal fashion. With the coordination that is needed to keep our students safe through this surge of Covid 19, as our main focus has been around keeping our students safe. For this month I am going to send email updates as needed and will send a more comprehensive newsletter next month. Below find a few quick updates.

Covid:
Please do not send your student to school if they have any symptoms at all. What we are finding with this strain is that students who are vaccinated have very mild symptoms but do have Covid and then can spread it. Please get tested either by PCR test at the National testing sites or get a rapid test at the Union City Family Center. We will also have the Bach vaccine clinic back on site, Wednesday January 19th for those looking to get vaccinated or boosted. More information can be found on the Union City Family Centers website as well about all testing and vaccination options for NHUSD families. That information can be found through our district Covid resources page.

https://www.mynhusd.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1714942&type=d&pREC_ID=1880256

Please know we are doing our best to keep up with attendance calls and emails, but as you can imagine it is a lot. Please allow us an extra day or two to get all absences noted in the system. If you get a call, you can ignore for a day while we are entering calls.

We have a lot of parents sending students to be tested at IVC when we send out a school wide notice. Please know that if your child is exposed you will get a very specific letter that outlines the various options for testing and quarantining. If you do not get this email and you only get a generic school wide notification, your child will not be sent a pass to test. We do NOT have a testing team on site every day and if they are here they are here to test students who were exposed at school. All families are welcome to bring your student to the UC Family Center or one of the National testing sites if you would like to have your student tested.  We will issue passes for those students who were exposed on campus. All students must be registered to be tested on site. You only need to complete this registration once, but it does need to be done prior to testing. That link is on the district website and is sent to all parents if their child gets exposed at school.

We will continue to excuse absences for those students out due to Covid related reasons. Please know our teachers keep Canvas up to date and any student out due to being Covid positive, or is in a mandatory quarantine should follow along in Canvas, reach out directly to their teachers via email and some teachers are offering Zoom sessions for students to Zoom in during class time. This is more to be a fly on the wall to hear instructions and see examples. Tests and quizzes cannot be completed at home and students will be allowed to make up all assessments for full credit upon their return. Please note teachers are not required to offer Zoom sessions and it is mostly in core, math and science classes.

We are working on updating guidelines but please note Alameda County has not updated their guidelines that would allows a student to return after 5 days with a negative test if they have no symptoms. While we know this is possible for staff now but not yet for students.

All Covid positive students do need to be out for the 10 day quarantine. Covid positive students do not need a positive test result to return as we know many Covid positive people cannot get a negative test that quickly after having tested positive. Students must be symptom and fever free for over 24 hours after the 10 day quarantine. Parents please make sure your child is following along with Canvas and reaching out to their teachers.  

I do again need to ask for grace, we are doing our best to keep up with notifications, testing, updates to attendance but please be patient with us.

If you have questions, please don't hesitate to reach out. Email is probably best right now.

Thank you,

Heather Thorner

Principal

From Ms. Clare our FSA:

The Big Smiles Dental team will be coming to IVCMS on Friday, February 4th!  They are still accepting online enrollment forms for check-ups and cleanings for students who do not have regular dentists and have not been to a dentist in the last 6 months.  Please enroll at the following link by 1/15/22.

https://www.myschooldentist.com/ICNHCA_schsrm

From the Counselors:
Parent Mini Zoom Workshop: Pre-Registration, getting ready for next year.  Link is on our website under Counselors' Corner. 
7th pre-registration opens January 26th, 2022
8th grade pre registration opens February 2nd, 2022

Yearbook:

Starting January 15th, yearbookordercenter.com will begin charging an additional $4 processing fee.

If you would like to purchase your yearbook, come by S2 after school on Fridays. We will be selling them in person for $35 with no processing fee.

Thank you for your support.