The number of new cases of COVID-19 among Winona Area Public Schools (WAPS) staff and students decreased this week. The number of students and staff going into quarantine also declined.
Between April 29 and May 5, five new cases of COVID-19 were reported among WAPS students and staff, down from seven the previous week. There were also 77 staff members and students who went into quarantine between April 29 and May 5, representing a decrease from 123 the week prior.
“These cases were from a community spread, which is what we’re finding when we do have positive cases in,” Superintendent Annette Freiheit said at the School Board’s May 6 meeting. “Our students that are getting this are actually very asymptomatic and come to school, and then start to show symptoms and end up getting tested.”
WAPS to offer free COVID test kits for middle, high school students (5/7/2021)
Winona Area Public Schools will begin offering free COVID-19 test kits for middle and high school students beginning next week.
The test kids will be available in the nurse’s office at Winona Middle School, Winona Senior High School and Winona Area Learning Center on Tuesday, May 11, and again on Tuesday, May 25. Students must return the completed test kit the day after pick-up (Wednesday, May 12, and Wednesday, May 26), so the school district can send it to the lab for processing. Results will be available 24-48 hours after the kits are sent to the lab.
By TJ
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WINONA, Minn. (KWNO)-8th graders at the Winona Middle School have immediately shifted to distance learning.
In a letter to district families, Winona Area Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Annette K. Freiheit says they’ve seen a sudden and sharp rise in students who need to quarantine. She said the shift to distance learning will last until May 3 at the earliest.
Freiheit said the learning model shift is in effect for grade 8 only. She says athletics and activities will resume as normal, however, students identified as close contacts are being asked to quarantine.
ALC opts for hybrid while WSHS reopens (3/17/2021)
Some Winona Area Learning Center (ALC) students are doing very well in hybrid learning, ALC Principal Emily Cassellius said. For that reason, as well as wanting to keep learning models as consistent as possible for students, she said, the ALC will remain in hybrid learning when Winona Area Public Schools (WAPS) students in grades six through 12 at Winona Middle School and Winona Senior High School (WSHS) move to daily in-person learning in April.
Whenever the ALC had to shift learning models this school year, Cassellius said, the change was difficult, and it took time to adjust. ALC staff would prefer to avoid such change now, she continued. “At this time, we just didn’t feel it was a time to kind of uproot everything we have in place and change everything for every student,” Cassellius said. “But it’s a time for us to really look at what each of our students need and provide that for them
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