Longfellow School-Portland

We ❤️ Longfellow Teachers & Staff!
The PTO hosted an appreciation luncheon for the teachers and staff yesterday. All staff ordered a custom lunch combo from Tally’s Kitchen. Members of the PTO Community Support Committee prepared hand-made signs.
A HUGE THANK YOU to all teachers and staff for all you do for our students at Longfellow. Here are some of the pictures from yesterday:

Please Sign Up for Pooled Testing! It Will Help Keep Us in School! Thank You!
Pooled Testing and Online Consent Forms

Starting in the fall, pooled testing will be utilized as a new mitigation layer for K through 6th grade. Pooled testing will be provided by Concentric and is made possible by the state-funded program.

WHAT IS POOLED TESTING?

Pooled testing provides a weekly look at a “pool” of students and staff. A self-administered nose swab is pooled with other members of the pool. There will be 10-20 members per pool. A PCR test of the pool will reveal whether COVID-19 is present. If positive, further testing (rapid BINAX) will be performed on all members of the pool. If the rapid test is negative, individuals will not need to quarantine. If positive, individuals and close contacts outside of the pool will need to quarantine without exception.

Currently, Longfellow has 107 students or 38% of our school community who can participate in pool testing. We hope to have 100% participation.

Travel Guidance
The district is moving to stricter travel guidelines beginning Jan 1, 2021. Staff and students who travel outside of Maine except to Vermont and New Hampshire must quarantine and schedule a
COVID-19 test three days after their return to Maine. Students must quarantine before their test and while waiting for results. If testing is not done, students must quarantine 10 days before returning to school. Testing sites can be found here: https://get-tested-covid19.org OR https://covidtestforme.com . If
you need to report a positive case to school, please send an email to [email protected] .

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