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Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Dear Families of Orde Day Care;
As most of you have heard by now childcare centres will be allowed to continue to operate under the new lockdown measures in Toronto beginning December 26, 2020 with our regular programs- infant through to school age until December 31, 2020.

As of January 4, 2021 all children who attended school will be moved to online learning for one week, till January 8, 2021. The Ministry of Education has mandated that childcare centres can continue to operate our infant, toddler and preschool programs after January 4, 2021 but cannot operate before and after school care to children enrolled in these programs during that week. Fees for these programs will not be charged during the closure period, and any charges upon reopening will be prorated for the month or period of closure. Please see attached.

If you require care for your kindergarten to school age child during this period January 4-8, 2021, the Ministry of Education has provided a list of eligible workers who may apply for this care, which is attached to this email. If you are interested in this care, please email me directly so I can send any information that I receive regarding this care option.

We are unclear at this point if further measures will be imposed by the City of Toronto that will affect the care we are providing for the infant to preschool aged child, but will keep you abreast as we receive any new or changing information.

Along with these announced changes the Ministry of Education has updated their guidance document and requested that we move from the online screening to active, in-person screening as the preferred method to determine if a person may enter a child care premises.
It continues that individuals who do not pass the screening are not permitted to attend the program and must stay home.
The ministry continues to ask that screening criteria is aligned to the provincial tool

Therefore beginning January 4, 2021 we will move back to the in person screening for anyone (children, staff and visitors) entering the childcare. Please adjust your schedules for this in person screening. We also ask that you continue to evaluate the health of your child prior to coming to the daycare, and if there is a symptom associated with COVID-19 present, we ask that your child does not come to daycare, and you contact us to inform us of the symptom/s.

We would like to thank you for your time and understanding as we continue to respond to the requirements and direction of the Province of Ontario and the City of Toronto through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Happy Holidays
Anna

Dear Families of Orde Day Care

 

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support of Orde Day Care during this unprecedented time.

 

We understand that having your child attend care during a pandemic was not an easy decision to make, but please know that our staff continue to take all the prescribed public health measures when providing care for your child

 

We would like to take this opportunity to clarify a few items:

 

• If you decide to withdraw your child from all or part of our care options, one month’s notice is still required, as per our parent contract.

 

• If the centre or your child’s program room is closed due to a case of COVID-19, and we cannot provide care, fees will not be charged during this time.

 

• If there is a centre or school wide closure, or mandatory lock down due to COVID-19 fees will not be charged during this time. Any fees that were previously charged will be refunded back to your account.

 

• If your child is absent due to a COVID-19 or a  COVID-19 related issue, child care fees will continue to be charged if your child room/program continues to operate.

 

We hope this clarifies any questions or concerns you may have had regarding fee charges and notice of withdrawal during this time.

 

Thank you

Orde Day Care Board of Directors

 

 

 

Monday, September 14, 2020

Dear Families of Children enrolled in Orde Day Care Preschool program

Below is an update on a number of items that will be changing this week

1. Hours of operation for preschool children

Orde Day Care Preschool program will run from 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. If you have a child in the school age or fdk program you may arrive at 8:00 a.m. with your preschool child to allow them to use the before school care program in the morning. If you do not have a child in one of our older programs, we ask that you do not bring your preschooler in until after 8:30 a.m., as we are giving priority to our fdk and school age children and the line for your child to gain entry may be longer than usual.

2. Staggered entry and pick up:

To start the school year, we will not be providing our preschool parents a drop off or pick up time (different than our summer program). However, we will monitor this new approach over the next few weeks to see if it is working or if we have to return to specific drop off and pick up times. Please ensure that if you are picking up at the end of the day that you arrive by 4:45 to allow yourself enough time, as there may be a line when you arrive to pick up.

3. Drop off and Pick up area:

The drop off and pick up preschool children will be conducted in the small yard. (kindergarten yard) from 8:00/8:30-9:00 a.m. in the morning and 3:30-5:00 in the afternoon.

We ask that you respect the markers indicated on the ground of the small playground as you wait for your child to gain entry into the daycare/school.

If your child comes after this time and children are in the yard, please do not come into the yard and ask one of the staff on duty to tell the school office that you have arrived. Please wait behind the temporary fencing just inside the small yard walkway

4. Mask wearing- Masks are required for preschool children when they are outside of the classroom. ie in the hallways. Please supply your child with a mask to wear for this purpose.

5. If you need to contact us please email admin@ordedaycare.org, garydordedaycare@yahoo.ca or indraordedaycare@yahoo.ca

Monday, September 14, 2020

Dear Families of Children enrolled in Orde Day Care FDK and School Age Programs

Below is an update on a number of items in preparation for your child’s return to daycare/school this week. I apologize for the delay of this communication but clarification on a few items still needed to be ironed out with the school before we could provide an update.

We hope this answer some of the questions that I have received to date

1. Care the week of September 14- 18

The TDSB has restricted our ability to offer full day care to children while the wait for their grade to start school.  Today is the last day of camp for all children Kindergarten to School age.

As of Tuesday, September 15,2020 we will be providing care for before and after for the following groups of children.

Tuesday, September 15 Senior Kindergarten and Grade 4

Wednesday, September 16 Junior and Senior Kindergarten and Grade 1 and 4

Thursday, September 17 All grades (JK- Grade 6)

2. Hours of operation for fdk and school age children:

Orde Day Care FDK and School age program will run from 7:45 am-8:40 am and 3:00 pm/3:15 pm-5:30 pm.

3.  Co-horting of FDK and School age children:

All kindergarten daycare children have been placed in two class rooms, room 5 and 6, for both instructional school and for our before and after school programs, to support the co horting requirement.

At this time the school will not be using room 25, 26 and 27. These rooms will be used for daycare only. 5 grade 1-6 classrooms will feed into the three school age rooms, but we will endeav to arrange our schedule to  limit the exposure of children from different classrooms.

We will try to spend as much time outside as possible to reduce the likelihood of transmission, increase physical distancing and give children a break from wearing a mask.

4. Staggered entry and pick up:

To start the school year, we will not be providing our FDK and School age parents a drop off or pick up time (different than our summer program). However, we will monitor this new approach over the next few weeks to see if it is working or if we have to return to specific drop off and pick up times. Please ensure that if you are picking up at the end of the day that you arrive by 5:15 to allow yourself enough time, as there may be a line when you arrive to pick up.

5. Drop off and Pick up area:

The drop off and pick up for all fdk and school age daycare children will be conducted in the small yard. (kindergarten yard) from 7:40- 8:30 a.m. in the morning and 4:00-5:30 in the afternoon.

We ask that you respect the markers indicated on the ground of the small playground as you wait for your child to gain entry into the daycare/school.

If your child comes after this time and children are in the yard, please do not come into the yard and ask one of the staff on duty to tell the school office that you have arrived. Please wait behind the temporary fencing just inside the small yard walkway

6. Health screening form

The screening form will hopefully move online as of Tuesday, September 15 for all fdk and school age parents.
We ask the one family member who will be bring the child to daycare/school to complete this survey before 7:30 each morning.

The link will come from SURVEY MONKEY. Please check your junk or spam if you don’t see it. Please add to your favorites if it does go to your spam so you can find it each morning.

Upon arrival to the daycare we will confirm your online submission and then we will only be documenting the temperature readings of you and your child.

If you do not complete the online survey, we will conduct the entire screening form with you upon arrival.

If your child only attends our pm program (School age) or your child did not attend the morning program please ensure that you complete the Health screening by 9:00 am each day, otherwise we will contact you during the day to complete.

7. Mask wearing- When school opens all children kindergarten age and older will be required to wear a mask during daycare hours inside even if physical distancing can be maintained ( this is slightly different than the direction we received on August 28, 2020 from Toronto Public Health in which children were only required to wear masks if physical distancing could not be maintained inside, or when in the communal areas such as the hallway).
8. Lunches– The TDSB has restricted our ability to offer supervised lunch program for our school aged children Grade 1-6. As a result, we will be offering a bagged lunch to all children Grade 1-6 who are enrolled in our school age lunch program. If you are unsure if your child is registered in our lunch program or you did not indicate on the last survey that went out, please email us to confirm before your child is due to start school this week

We will be investigating our ability to provide bagged lunches to our kindergarten children, and will communicate more on this in the coming weeks.

9. If you need to contact us please email admin@ordedaycare.org, garydordedaycare@yahoo.ca or indraordedaycare@yahoo.ca

Thank you for your time and if you should have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us.

Anna Gionet RECE

Executive Director

Orde Day Care Centre