LCPCS CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019 (COVID-19) UPDATES & RESOURCES

SCHOOL STATUS: WEEK OF AUG 3RD, K - 12 RETURN TO SCHOOL, 8 - 2:15P WITH STANDING HEALTH PROTOCOLS

Dear Seasider Ohana, 

School year 2021-22 is fast approaching, and we are hard at work to make it a great one for our learning community. In the coming days, you will be getting calls, emails, and other announcements with details that will help you and your family prepare for school. Please listen and read carefully to avoid any confusion. 

The last two years have been challenging and really showed me the courage and resilience of Laupahoehoe. Despite all the financial and personal obstacles of COVID, our families have continued to support and celebrate their children’s growth and happiness. Learning assessment data from last year show that despite the difficulties of COVID protocols (distancing, shortened days and weeks) we have improved as a campus. The credit goes to our teachers, their students, and you, their families. 

As we enter the next chapter of the pandemic, the success and safety of your students will direct all decision making. There are many things that we have taken away from our experiences that will make LCPCS more successful moving forward. We will continue to allow access to our online platforms and teachers will maintain their online resources so absences result in less learning loss. We will emphasize every child is engaged in daily, in person, learning, all day, each day. The school day will return to a traditional full day, but our individualized student support and intervention programs will be embedded in that day for all students to continue the growth we saw last year. Enrichment and resource options will return with more Woods and Agricultural options, and our Digital Media program will greatly expand. You will be seeing announcements about Athletics and Hawaiian Cultural learning. All this will happen while still adhering to current guidance for social distancing, masks, and sanitation. 

We are revising our cell phone policy to encourage engagement in the classroom. We have made a considerable investment in campus technology. Every child will have access to a school device whenever and wherever necessary. Consequently students will no longer need to access their cell phones in the classroom. Student cell phones are not to be used in classes. Cell phone use or visibility in the classroom will result in phones being confiscated for the reminder of that school day. Students will be instructed to use the office phone if they need to contact their families. We are asking parents needing to contact their child to please call the office to do so.

LCPCS remains committed to our school uniform and we will continue to require students to wear an LCPCS shirt each day. Families will be receiving registration info via a OneCall email. Registration forms can be dropped off starting July 23rd, which coincides with the second of our two vaccination clinics. 

We have digitized our informational forms, policies, and procedures that normally are included in the start of the year entrance packet for parents and students and they are now located on our web page. Please refer to these when filling out the forms that come home with your child(ren) on the first day of school. 

Please return your completed entrance packet for each child by August 6, 2021. 

Sincerely, 

Kurt Rix, School Director

To contact LCPCS, email info@lcpcs.org

Please follow emails or LCPCS website at www.lcpcs.org for further developments. Stay safe Seasiders!