Health and Wellness

• Requiring masks on campus and school buses
• 20 seconds of hand washing often
• 6-feet of social distancing
• Covering of coughs and sneezes

• increase air flow circulation
• wiping down high-touch surfaces
• mid-day wipe down of all public surfaces
• end-of-day cleaning with EPA approved disinfectant

Temperature checks administered on campus daily for all students and faculty/staff

• Circles of Contact enforced
• No cross movement between Lower School and Upper School
• Field Trips cancelled
• Non-essential visitors restricted
• Staggered use of common areas
• Space seating 6-feet apart

Parents should notify the school of any absences through the attendance@millsprings.org email address.

• Any student who presents with COVID symptoms will be sent to the clinic and required to go home.
• Any student who has been exposed to COVID is asked to quarantine.
  1. 10 days of quarantine will be required without testing
  2. only 7 days of quarantine will be required with a negative test
• Any student who has a confirmed case of COVID is asked to isolate for 10 days.
• Those students with elevated risk for severe COVID complications can submit a written request to participate in eLearning. A doctor’s note may be required.

A point of confusion has been when there are different test results between the rapid (antigen) test and the PCR (NAAT) test. Key to the outcome is whether the student has symptoms and/or known exposure. To clarify, below is our policy:

• If a student has a positive rapid test and a negative PCR test (within 48 hours of the rapid test), without symptoms or known exposure, the student can return to school. 
• If a student has a positive rapid test and a negative PCR test and has symptoms and/or known exposure, we require the student to isolate for 10 days after the onset of symptoms, wait until at least 24 hours have passed with no fever without fever-reducing medication, and other symptoms have improved (loss of taste and smell may persist for weeks or months after recovery and need not delay the end of isolation).
• If a student has a negative rapid test and a positive PCR test with symptoms and/or known exposure, we require the student to isolate for 10 days after the onset of symptoms, wait until at least 24 hours have passed with no fever without fever-reducing medication, and other symptoms have improved (loss of taste and smell may persist for weeks or months after recovery and need not delay the end of isolation).
• If a student has symptoms and/or known exposure without testing, the student is required to isolate for 10 days.

• Contact local health officials and follow the guidance provided
• Based on Circles of Contact, dismiss students and staff for 14 days
• Discourage students and staff from social gatherings
• Communicate to faculty and parents the presence of a confirmed case of COVID-19
• Clean and disinfect thoroughly
• Close off area used by the individual with COVID-19
• Open doors and windows of area
• Wait 24 hours to clean area
• Clean all surfaces with electrostatic sprayers

• Employees are required to notify the school if they either contract or were exposed to case of COVID-19.

• Employees who have a confirmed case of COVID-19 will be required to submit a negative test result before returning to school.

• Should an employee or member of an employee’s household travel internationally, the employee will be asked to self–quarantine for 14 days.