COVID-19 Information

Learning from home? Please follow these steps to ensure your child has a successful learning experience!

1. If your child regularly attends school in person and needs to change to at-home learning for a month or due to illness, please alert the office via email (office@jkcs-oakville.ca) AND your child’s homeroom teacher via email.

2. Please have your child dressed and ready to start learning at 8:30 am.

3. There is differentiation when it comes to what portion of your child’s day is synchronous learning. Your homeroom teacher will advise you. In grades 5-8, your child will follow the daily schedule which will be linked to your child’s Classroom Connection. This will ensure your child learns synchronously and gets breaks and lunch.

4. Your child must keep his or her web camera turned on to participate in class. Your child is not permitted to record or screenshot during class time.

5. Please ask your child to learn using headphones if possible.

6. To better support your child(ren) learning from home, we will require parents to pick up packets of material from your child(ren)’s teacher(s) twice a month. Please plan to come to the school during school hours on the first and third Wednesday of each month to pick up.

7. Please create a learning space at home. We recommend:

   • A table or desk outside of your child’s bedroom.

   • Access to a plug to keep technology working throughout the day.

   • A quiet atmosphere.

   • Cell phones stored until the end of the school day.

   • Consider adjusting the lighting and the backdrop of your child’s web camera to allow us to see them clearly.​​​​​​​

1. Classroom Camera feed will be available via a secure Google Meet link that cannot be accessed without a JKCS email address and a direct link. 

2. The main camera feed will follow your child’s teachers. 

3. When your child is learning from home, their video will appear in the classroom on a screen that broadcasts Google Meet. This allows the teacher to interact with your child during the class

4. We take confidentiality seriously. At no time will students or parents be permitted to “Screenshot” or record Google Meets.

5. It is important to remember that these videos are meant to facilitate learning, and are not intended to give parents a live feed of classes. To create as authentic a classroom experience as possible for our students, we kindly ask parents to refrain from participating in live lessons.

If staff and students are ordered to continue learning from home, JKCS will have 2-3 transition days to ensure that all lessons are prepared, the at-home packages are prepared, and the necessary technology equipment is distributed at an announced pick-up day. 

If a parent wishes to change their child's regular place of learning (at-home or at-school), that may take place at the beginning of each month.

When possible, and when permitted, we encourage all students to learn at JKCS.

We will support any parents who are concerned about the safety of their children, and we will ensure that the at-home learning platform is an option for those parents.

Changes to the place of learning other than ones at the beginning of the month must be approved by administration. The "administration" includes the Principal and any one of the Vice-Principals. Please note that the arrangements, if approved by administration, may not be fully transitioned immediately as materials and instructions must be prepared and communicated.

Students may go online if they are presenting symptoms of illness that are preventing them from being in class, such as fever, cough, sore throat, stuffy/runny nose, nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhea, fatigue, muscle aches, or a general unwell feeling.  

Changes to the place of learning other than ones made at the beginning of the month must be approved by administration. The "administration" includes the Principal and any one of the Vice-Principals. Please note that the arrangements, if approved by administration, may not be fully transitioned immediately as materials and instructions must be prepared and communicated.

If your child is feeling healthy and has not made prior arrangements for online learning, then they are not to go online, but instead either be on campus or be absent for the day.