RES Newsletter

What an incredible week filled with fun and joy for all at RES! Thank you to all the families and staff who provided special snacks, notes and tokens of love and appreciation for our staff and students. Behind the scenes as always are the FORS folks organizing all the "stuff" needed to make crafts and gift giving go smoothly.

I am looking for a couple of rocking chairs for RES. If anyone has one to donate please let me know. I'm happy to pick it up.

My apologies! The picture here is Ms. Johnson our school counselor not Ms. Jeannie as I said last week.

One of our 4/5 students and his parent delivered the food we collected last week to CVOEO. We donated 132 pounds of food and bathing supplies! More will be delivered today! Thank you members of our school and community for helping those in need in our larger community. Ms. Ogilvie's 4th & 5th graders.

Contagious Illness Guidance

There are several illnesses circulating at school, so we wanted to share some guidance and reminders during this time to help minimize the spread of these illnesses. We are seeing strep throat, influenza, viral colds, COVID, stomach viruses and pneumonia. Please remind your students not to share water bottles, food or anything else that can further contribute to the spread of illness. Please also encourage your students to eat well, stay hydrated and get plenty of rest. Good handwashing is the #1 way to prevent the spread of contagious illness!

We expect students and staff to stay home with any potentially contagious illnesses or symptoms including the following:

1. Vomiting/diarrhea-must be 24 hours symptom free before returning to school

2. Fever 100.4 or greater -stay home until fever free without use of medication for 24 hours

3. Any infection requiring antibiotic-keep your student home until they have been on antibiotics for 24 hours

4. Persistent cough that disrupts normal activity

5. Unexplained rash

6. Influenza and COVID-stay home until fever free without medication for 24 hours

7. Any other symptoms or illness that impedes a student’s ability to learn or staff’s ability to work.

You may return once feeling well enough to be at school and fever free for 24 hours without the use of fever reducing medications.

Please take a moment to read this information from the Vermont Department of Health regarding preventing transmission of Influenza. If your student tests positive for Influenza or COVID, it is very helpful if you are able to call or email the school nurses to report this so we can track trends and determine if we are having outbreaks.

Thanks for your help with keeping our students and staff as healthy as possible during this challenging time of year.

Haysal Jones, BSN, RN, NCSN

Addison Central School District

hjones@acsdvt.org

Salisbury/Cornwall/Ripton Schools

Our FY26 Budget development process is underway and we invite the ACSD community to learn more and share feedback as we build toward a final budget:

• On January 6 at 6:30pm, the ACSD Board meeting will offer an overview of the full ACSD FY26 Budget spending plan (MUHS Library or virtual).

• On January 9th at 6:30, Superintendent Baker will host a virtual Public Input Session where the ACSD community can ask questions and share feedback. (Use this meeting link (password: ACSD)

• Find these meeting links and more information, resources, and opportunities for community engagement on our FY26 Budget webpage.

-Tae Kwon Do begins on January 3rd for 8 weeks with Master Thomas as part of our PE time. We are very excited!

As the temperatures drop, please keep in mind:

T-shirts, shorts, crocs or sandals can be worn on their own outside (meaning no additional layers required) when the temperature is 40 + degrees

Long sleeves are ok to be worn on their own outside when the temperature is 39-32 degrees but it’s time to pack up the crocs & sandals!

Coats, hats, gloves & boots are required for temperatures under 32 degrees

• Our drill was cancelled. It will be rescheduled at a later date.

• Winter break is December 23-January 1st. See you on the 2nd!

• Water bottle
  

• A daily snack

• Sneakers on Tuesday & Friday PE days!

If you are looking to get winter gear for your student(s) please contact Haysal Jones hjones@acsdvt.org or Tammie Johnson tammiejohnson@acsdvt.org