Dear NuVu Community,

Thank you all for taking the time to provide us with feedback about your comfort with an onsite return this coming Monday, Jan. 10. 

We’ve reviewed your feedback and are thrilled to offer a fully onsite return on Monday! 

Before sending your student to school on Monday, please be sure to take a moment to read through the following reminders:

COVID Testing

Fortunately, we’re delighted to report that all students and staff tested via pooled PCR tests Monday returned negative results. We will facilitate more pooled testing on Monday, Jan. 10 from 8:30 - 9:30 AM.

If you have not yet opted in to NuVu’s pooled testing program but would like to, please complete and submit the attached Consent Form by Monday Jan 10. If you wish to continue using your own testing resources, the deadline to submit your student’s PCR test is Tuesday Jan. 11. Please submit results via email to molly@nuvustudio.org. 

Updated Mask Requirement

All students and staff will now be asked to wear masks that are equivalent to N95 masks. This includes KN95 and KF94 masks. We will have masks for students onsite for the week of Jan. 10. These masks may be used for up to five days of safe use.

Lunch

In making decisions about safety during snacks and meals, we are prioritizing two factors that are most protective against the spread of COVID when masks have been removed: ventilation and physical distancing.

Ventilation:

The safest place to be without a mask is outdoors. When it is feasible, students will take their lunch outdoors, unless weather or other conditions make it unsafe to do so. Physical distancing is not required when meals take place outdoors.

If weather conditions prevent taking lunch outside, windows and doors will be opened, and HEPA filters will be switched to high. Each studio space has one HEPA filter, with the exception of the largest studio space, which has two. It is recommended that for every 750 square feet, one HEPA filter should be used. 

Physical Distancing:

Although not required outdoors, when meals and snacks take place indoors, students must be seated at least 3 feet apart, facing in the same direction while their masks are off.

• Windows will be open from approximately 12:15 - 12:45 PM; students are encouraged to use this time for active eating/drinking
• Masks should remain on when not actively eating or drinking
• Coaches eat at different time than students
• Purchasing three additional HEPA filters to be distributed to higher volume areas of the space

Suspicious Symptoms? Please Stay Home

While the risk of contracting COVID is dramatically lower for those who are fully-vaccinated, a small chance of becoming sick or making others sick remains. Therefore, COVID symptoms must be taken very seriously by everyone, regardless of vaccination status. Any student or staff member experiencing the following symptoms should stay at home:

• Cough (not due to other known cause, such as chronic cough)
• Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
• Fatigue in combination with other symptoms
• Fever of 100.0 F or higher, chills, or shaking chills
• Headache in combination with other symptoms
• Muscle aches or body aches
• Nasal congestion or runny nose (not due to other known causes, such as allergies) when in combination with other symptoms
• Nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea
• New loss of taste or smell
• Sore throat

As always, we are endlessly thankful to you all for your continued consideration of community health. We look forward to a time when these measures are loosened and we have more normalcy in our school days. 

All the best, 

The NuVu Team