Public school districts across the North Olympic Peninsula are in the process of finalizing plans for reopening classes this fall during a pandemic, with the caveat that the plans will change with conditions.
Port Angeles
The Port Angeles School District has chosen a hybrid model for students in grades K-2 while other grade levels will learn solely through online instruction when classes resume Sept. 3.
The 2020-2021 Academic Year Reopening and Response Plan is at https://tinyurl.com/PDN-ReopeningPlan
Sequim schools
The Sequim School Board will consider final approval of a reopening plan on Monday. It would provide a limited opening of schools on Sept. 2 that would see students with special needs and individual education plans (IEPs) attend school in person — with a group of about 25 students at each school building on Mondays and Tuesdays, and a second group of 25 at schools on Thursdays and Fridays — and the rest of Sequim students learning from home.
Under Sequim Superintendent Rob Clark’s plan, the remaining student population would eventually be brought back to school in phases.
Olympic Peninsula Academy (OPA), a district alternative learning school-within-a-school that in part supports homeschool learners, would open one day a week for students in grades kindergarten-fifth grade and one day a week for students in grades 6-12.
The proposed plan can be found at sequimschools reopen.
Crescent school
The Crescent School District’s draft plan is to open on Aug. 27 with grades 2-6 meeting on a weekly hybrid schedule of two days in-person and three days remote learning, and grades 6-12 online only.
First grade students would meet in person Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and work remotely on Wednesday unless enrollment grows, when a hybrid plan would be put into place.
On Aug. 26, small groups of students will be scheduled assigned times to pick up materials. The draft plan is at crescentschoolreopen.
Quillayute Valley
A parent meeting is planned at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in which Superintendent Diana Reaume will to discuss the Quillayute Valley School District reopening plans. The link is https://youtu.be/_EG5Pyk4HLo.
The Quillayute Valley School Board in Forks will consider approving a reopening plan when it meets at 5:30 p.m. Monday. To see the meeting, go to https://youtu.be/fWB2Cqqlctk.
The draft plan in July had every child in school for in-person learning five days a week, but the district cautioned that this could change. The plan is at quillayute valleyreopen.
Cape Flattery
The Cape Flattery School District’s draft plan for reopening on Sept. 3 in the website at cfsd401.org.
The plan as it was developed in July is on a hybrid model.
Port Townsend schools
Port Townsend School District’s updated plan allows students at any grade level to participate in a blended model of two days of in-class instruction in 15-student cohorts with three days of remote learning, or to go fully remote. For high-schoolers, the blended model is limited to 125 students.
Families have until Wednesday to select one of the options or to enroll in OCEAN, the district’s alternative learning program. The Port Townsend School Board is set to vote on the plan Thursday, and school is slated to start Sept. 8
Chimacum school
The Chimacum School Board plans to vote on its reopening plan on Wednesday.
Under the proposed plan, Chimacum kindergarten and elementary students, as well as seventh- , eighth- and possibly ninth-graders would be grouped in cohorts for two days a week with three days of remote learning. Students in 10th through 12th grades would see primarily remote learning. Chimacum’s school year is set to start Sept. 8.
Quilcene school
Quilcene School District officials is set to select one of five steps Aug. 26, then reevaluate and make adjustments on a weekly basis.
The current plan has been posted to the district’s website. It ranges from distance learning for all grade levels at Step 1 to in-person instruction four days a week at Step 5. Classes will begin on Sept. 2.
Brinnon school
Brinnon, which serves students through eighth grade, has given families three options: return to school full-time, participate in a hybrid model of two days of in-class instruction and three days of remote learning or go fully remote. Classes will begin Sept. 2. The website is at bsd46.org.
