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October 26, 2020On September 17, we were able to deliver some terrific news to our school parents, students, and teachers! With King County's current COVID-infection numbers trending in a very healthy direction, the Seattle Archdiocese gave permission for our Catholic schools to choose to reopen for in-person instruction in grades K-5! At St. Louise, we will be returning our K-5 students to our school building on Monday, September 28.
Our kindergarteners through fifth graders will be joining our preschool students on campus for the typical daily 8:30-3:00 school time starting that final week in September. Our preschoolers have been having school in their classroom since last week, and all is going well. Our grade K-5 students have been learning remotely from home since the start of September, with their teachers instructing them live using Microsoft Teams.Unfortunately, until the COVID-infection numbers improve even more, we still are told to keep our grade 6-8 students working remotely using Teams. These middle schoolers can hopefully transition from online lessons to in-person learning later in October.Our school faculty spent much of the summer and September creating a Reopening Plan . This plan is a well thought-out, very detailed, 32-page document that provides assurance to parents and staff that St. Louise will be a secure, healthy place for students and employees. With our spacious classroom areas, small numbers of students in our K-5 homerooms (averaging 14 students), and disciplined, rule-following children, we are perfectly set up to be able to safely run school in-person during this time of COVID-precautions.We applaud the efforts of our school parents, students, and teachers for making online-learning succeed these past weeks. But knowing that in-person learning is the best approach for kids, we can't wait to bring students back into our parish school building. We have confidence we can pull off a successful reopening! It's been a long six months of waiting!Please contact our school office ( [email protected] or 425-746-4220) if you have a child in grades PreK through 5 and would like to consider transferring him/her to our parish school at this time. We have limited space in each grade level to enroll new students.