TDSB Screening Tool
Changes to the school screening tool include:
- Household member has symptoms: If anyone in your household has one or more COVID-19 symptoms, all children and adults who attend a school setting must stay home from school until COVID-19 has been ruled out. If the household member with one or more symptoms does not go for testing, the children and adults in the home who attend a school setting must stay home for 10 days.
- Household member has travelled: If anyone in your household has travelled outside of Canada in the last 14 days, all children and adults who attend a school setting must stay home from school until the person who travelled completes the federally-required 14 days of self-isolation. If the individual is exempt from this self-isolation because they perform an essential job (e.g. truck driver, pilot), the rest of the household can still attend school.
- Close contact of someone who had COVID-19: If anyone in your household is self-isolating at home because they were a close contact of someone who had COVID-19, all children in the household will need to stay home from school until the person who was a close contact completes the 14 days of self-isolation.
Follow-up Instructions if you’ve been tested for COVID-19: Click here
Student Health Pass can be found: here
Mr Tomasino - going the distance
Maurice Cody JPS teacher John Tomasino and Melanie Locke are connected by a passion for distance running. And in a year that has kept us isolated and apart, John and Melanie came together to support one another. Watch this truly amazing and inspirational video on TSN: Bell Lets Talk: Going the Distance
Thank you Cody Staff!
SURPRISE! Could you please read the following message over the PA system 9:00 AM to be heard by faculty, staff, and students! Thank you.
“The Maurice Cody parent community is here, standing outside the doors of this incredible school, to celebrate all of the exceptional teachers and staff. Thank you for keeping our children safe, for making school fun and for continuing to provide an incredible education. At this moment, we would like the teachers and staff to listen, and look out their windows as possible – the bells, claps, and cheers that you hear are for you. Maurice Cody students, please stand up, along with the parents standing outside, and show your appreciation for your incredible teachers by clapping and cheering.”
Cody Food Drive
TDSB and TPH Revised Screening Protocols
Toronto Public Health has updated its COVID-19 student screening tool to prevent further opportunities for virus spread. Decision Guide has been updated as well.
As part of this guidance, if a child has one or more new, or worsening COVID-19 symptoms, parents will now be required to:
- Keep child home.
- Keep siblings and other children home, even if they do not have symptoms.
- Arrange for the child to get tested or contact their health care provider.
- Without testing, the child must stay home for 10 days.
- Monitor the family for symptoms. Adults must stay home if they have one or more symptom.
The TDSB will begin using this new screening guidance starting Monday, December 7, 2020. New Student Health Pass can be found here.
Toronto Public Health Guide
We’ve compiled some of the Toronto Public Health information to help you determine if your child should attend school. Note, there are different instructions supplied by Toronto Public Health if a classroom is compromised. Please follow the instructions they send you if that is the case.
Click here to read more.
Morning Entry and Protocols
When entering the school grounds we are asking that all students, staff and family members wear their mask during morning entry and dismissal
Also the field and playground is off limits until 8:30 am and from 3:20 pm until 6 pm as the Maurice Cody Childcare Centre is utilizing the field and all playground spaces during those times
Note: Start times are 8:40am, 8:45am, 8:50am and 8:55am. You will be notified ahead of time.
TDSB Student Health Pass
- A parent/guardian will PRINT, SIGN and DATE the TDSB Student Health Pass daily and student will then bring to school to present upon entry.
- Click here to print: TDSB DAILY PASS
- If a student does not have form but has symptoms, they will go to wellness room and parent/guardian will be called to pick them up
- If a student does not have form but has no symptoms, they will proceed to class and a parent/guardian will be called
Note: All information can be found in the Cody Handbook for 2020 / 21 school year.
Lunch Routine
- For those students, Gr. 1-5, going home for lunch your child will be escorted to the same door they entered in the morning
- When returning back from lunch, students in Grades 1, 2 and the 2/3s are to return to the main playground and the lunchroom supervisor will guide each child to their zone
- When returning back from lunch, students in Grades 3, 4, and 5 are to enter through Door #1 (main entrance) at 12:35pm
- FDK families please email your teacher for pick up and drop off locations.
End of Day Dismissal Map
Virtual Learning to In Person
The TDSB Virtual School will be in touch with you if you’ve signed up for remote learning. Students will be taught by either a centrally assigned TDSB teacher or a TDSB teacher who has chosen to teach remotely. Students will share a remote classroom with other schools.
If you decide you’d like to switch to in-person learning, there are three opportunities to do so.
- Deadline September 30th, in class start date October 13th
- Deadline January 29th, following distribution of 1st Term Report Cards, in class start date February 16th
Virtual Learning Website – click here
