Students, faculty, and staff with any cold, flu, or COVID-19 symptoms should remain at home, complete the absence tracker in the Parent Portal, and take a COVID test prior to returning to school. PCR tests, FDA-approved home tests, and rapid antigen tests are accepted. Clearly label your tests done at home with your student’s name and the date. Unidentified tests will be returned and not accepted. Regardless of test results, students with fever, uncontrolled cough, opaque or colored nasal discharge, fatigue, muscle aches, headache unrelieved with medication, or GI upset must remain at home for at least 24 hours and until symptoms have resolved and the student can wear a mask comfortably and correctly.

Please use the absence tracker in the Sacred Heart Parent portal. The tracker alerts your student’s teacher(s) that your daughter is out. The portion where parents can state a reason for absence is confidential and only visible to the School’s nursing staff.

Students need to be healthy to participate in their academic day. Coughing that is disruptive to the classroom environment, nose-blowing, resting heads on a desk, or being told to hide symptoms are not conducive to fully participating in the academic program. Unwell students will be sent home at the discretion of the medical staff, including the athletic trainer. Students will be asked to submit a COVID test and stay home until fully recovered. Students with chronic allergies and other causes for persistent rhinitis (runny nose) or cough need to submit an alternative diagnosis in writing from a medical doctor that your student’s condition is under treatment and being monitored but is chronic, and therefore unlikely to be contagious to others. Please email Mrs. Elken or call 203-532-3508 to discuss.

Students, faculty, and staff that test positive for COVID (on any COVID test) must isolate from home for five days. The Health Office should be notified by email immediately. Unvaccinated siblings must also remain quarantined at home for five days or longer depending on each family’s situation.  Please call to discuss quarantine times and testing dates with the health office. 

With the viral load high in the community, rapid tests in symptomatic people are considered to be positive rapid tests. Confirmatory PCR testing is not required at this time.

A PCR test to confirm you do not have COVID is advised.  You may not return to work or school until your symptoms have resolved and/or your doctor has cleared you in writing as not contagious to the community.  

Please email Mrs. Elken or call 203-532-3508. If your message is time sensitive, please state this at the beginning of your message. 

Students may return to PE when they return to school on day #6. Student athletes at the MS and US level may not practice or compete in athletics until they have been cleared by their personal doctor. Please review the Athletics FAQ section for more details. Mrs. Cauliffe, our athletic trainer, will be in touch with the affected family.

Please notify the Health Office immediately to be entered into our confidential COVID tracking system and contact your student’s division head to determine the next steps for your student’s learning plan. Unvaccinated students exposed to COVID-19 will be required to quarantine for 5 days, follow the guidance from the Greenwich Department of Health regarding next steps, and have a negative COVID-19 test on day 5 of quarantine in order to return on day 6. Students may return only if asymptomatic and able to properly wear a well fitted mask over their nose and mouth at all times unless actively eating. Any asymptomatic, vaccinated students, faculty, or staff who are identified as close contacts will not be required to quarantine if exposed. Fully vaccinated students, staff and faculty must submit a negative test to the Health Office on day five post exposure, and they may attend school while wearing a mask consistently and distancing from others when eating. 

If your SHG student is vaccinated and asymptomatic: your student may come to school with a good mask and careful distancing. If your SHG student is sick-regardless of vaccine status: no, your student may not attend school. Please complete a COVID test and submit the results. If your SHG student is unvaccinated and asymptomatic: no, your student may not come to school; quarantine is required for five days plus a test to return on day six. In all cases, please contact the Health Office via email.

We are not requiring a daily health screening in Magnus Health at this time. However, students and parents should assess physical well being every morning and unwell students and staff must stay home. 

As of February 28th, Sacred Heart Greenwich operates with a mask-optional policy. The federal mask mandate on public transportation continues through March 15, 2022; students must wear masks while riding the bus.

Contact tracing is no longer required for in school and school sponsored events.This includes transportation to and from school, before school, during the academic day, after school, and school sponsored events. The DPH has changed their guidance to move away from contact tracing to focus on early isolation and clinical management of students and staff with active symptoms that could be related to COVID-19.

Please check the parent portal on the Sacred Heart Greenwich website for daily updates with any positives in your student’s grade.

PCR tests should be submitted to the Health Office as a laboratory report. Please be sure your student’s name and the date are clear and that no password is needed to view the result. FDA-approved rapid tests/home tests should be submitted to the Health Office in a photograph with your student’s name and date visible. Please include a brief description of the events surrounding the test result in the email submission.

A PCR test to confirm you do not have COVID is advised. You may not return to school/ work until your symptoms have resolved, and/or your doctor has cleared you in writing as not contagious to the community. 

Sacred Heart received a limited allotment of Flowflex antigen tests from the State. Please contact the Health Office for updates on the supply and distribution of these tests. Tests will be distributed for use by symptomatic Sacred Heart Greenwich students only to be used at home under supervision. Tests should be performed, labeled, and a photograph submitted to the Health Office for documentation. Individual parents will be responsible to pick up test kits during school hours. Test kits will not be sent home with individual students. 

Most likely, no; however, the need for gateway testing will be determined based on the local COVID landscape in March. Student-athletes who choose to participate in the athletic’s program the second week of spring break will be required to submit a negative COVID rapid test the morning of the first day of participation.

As recommended by the American Association of Pediatrics and the CDC, Sacred Heart strongly encourages all eligible students to consult their primary care providers regarding the COVID-19 vaccine. All faculty, staff, and coaches are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Booster vaccines are also available for those community members ages 12 and older, five months after the Pfizer vaccine, 6 months after the Moderna vaccine, and 2 months after the Jansen vaccine. Sacred Heart does not require the COVID vaccine to participate in our academic program.

The CDC defines fully vaccinated is having completed two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine or one dose of the Jansen vaccine plus an additional two weeks of time.

Booster vaccines are not a requirement at this time. We do anticipate the State of CT to follow the CDC guidelines and require boosters to be considered “fully vaccinated” in the next few months.

All students who have been vaccinated and/or received booster doses are asked to upload vaccine cards to Magnus Health in the immunization section, as this will serve as proof of vaccination status as it relates to quarantine and other requirements. Students who do not upload their vaccine cards to Magnus will be treated as unvaccinated.  This information is confidential and shared only with the medical staff including the athletic trainer. Faculty and staff will find individual sections for vaccine cards and booster information in the Magnus portal. 

The Magnus Health portal is Sacred Heart’s electronic medical records system and is the most confidential way to send your student’s medical documents. Magnus Health can be accessed through the Sacred Heart Greenwich Parent Portal. Document upload is most easily performed using a desktop computer rather than by a smartphone. Parents are responsible for learning the uploading process. A new, updated version of the Magnus Health Portal app will launch shortly.  Please remove any old versions from your phone.

Students who are at home for an illness, such as a cold or the flu, will NOT engage in Home Learning. The approach outlined returns us to prior practice.

Home Learning will only be available to students with extended absences due to isolation or quarantine for COVID-19 or with specific health and/or other extenuating circumstances. The Home Learning curriculum will not feature Zoom or live instruction for all classes. Students should anticipate that assignments will be posted on Google Classroom, and faculty will check in with them during their time at home. These standards are subject to change in the case of a larger group quarantine. 

Approval from the student’s Division Head and the school nurse will be required in order to engage in Home Learning.

Online learning technologies helped us navigate the pandemic, but the hallmark of a Sacred Heart education is in-person learning. Toggling between online and in-person learning created challenges for students and teachers alike during the 2020-21 school year.

There will be no option to pivot between Home Learning and Campus Learning unless approved by the Division head for unique, special circumstances. Any circumstance related to a medical condition will require doctor's documentation with a diagnosis, treatment plan, and estimated length of absence to be approved by the school nurse.

We are excited to welcome our parents and community members back to campus for events such as Back to School Nights, athletics competitions, and class coffees. All campus visitors will be required to wear a mask indoors, regardless of vaccination status, through February 15th, per the State of CT.

Any changes to this policy will be informed by guidance from the CDC, State of Connecticut and CT Department of Public Health Town-level COVID Response Framework and data tracker for cases per 100,000. 

FLIK will continue to provide grab-and-go lunches, supplemented with a wider array of add-on items (fruit, yogurt parfaits, etc.) through September 30th. 

The Upper and Lower School will return to eating in Hayes Hall, the only area of the School where plexiglass remains in place at tables. The Middle School will split between Hayes Hall and classrooms. We will continue to offer a variety of outdoor seating options like last year.

In line with the State of Connecticut, there are currently no requirements for families to follow after traveling out of the area. Families are encouraged to follow the best practices and recommendations from the CDC regarding travel. 

Please be aware that spectator policies vary by school. We will continue to post spectator guidelines on the Parent/Student Portal for all away competition sites. Please check frequently as the situation is dynamic and continues to change.

Sacred Heart allows unlimited home team spectators and two spectators per student-athlete for visiting teams. All spectators must wear properly fitting masks and be mindful of physical distancing in the stands/sidelines.

School-sponsored overnights and trips (those happening both on and off campus) will be limited to vaccinated students only at this time, if they are approved at all. The COVID committee will review the current local landscape and the location of the event/competition as well as the impact of the team’s exposure. Accommodations for overnight trips for students with approved medical or religious exemptions will vary depending on the nature of the event and be determined on a case-by-case basis.