School News

Dear Marshall Lane School Families:

 To protect everyone at our school, please continue to monitor the health of your child(ren) every day for any COVID19 symptoms. 

If your children are not feeling well, please keep them at home and report the absence to the school—especially if they are displaying cold, flu or COVID-19 symptoms. There are five symptoms to keep an eye out for when it comes to the Omicron variant: 

• Fever

• Runny nose with any other symptoms

• Throat pain

• Dry Cough

• Body aches

If these symptoms exist, have your children tested at a clinic or test site to determine whether they are positive for COVID-19. Please report positive results to the school health office.  

As always, our goal is to protect our students, families, and community from the spread of Covid. We appreciate your help and cooperation with this.

Vaccine Clinic this Saturday, January 8th, 2022 at Rosemary School

According to the CDC, vaccines remain the best public health measure to protect people from COVID-19, slow transmission, and reduce the likelihood of new variants emerging. COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing severe illness, hospitalizations, and death. The CDC recommends that everyone 5 years and older protect themselves from COVID-19 by getting fully vaccinated, and that everyone 12 years and older get a booster shot after completing their primary COVID-19 vaccination series. 

Due to the global pandemic, there has not been any standardized state testing since the spring of 2019.  State testing will return this year after spring break. Students in 3rd to 5th grades will complete these assessments to provide us with information about overall academic achievement.

Third to fifth grade teachers will be providing schedules for the testing in their classrooms. Please do not schedule any family vacations or regular medical or dental appointments on any of these dates to ensure that your child will be present for the testing. It is more important than ever to be able to assess our students’ achievement at this time. We appreciate your help in making sure that your children are at school for this important testing.

This year, our district has received additional funding to help support our students after almost a year of distance learning during the 2020-2021 school year.  Assessments have been used to identify students who are in need of a higher level of support.

A Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) instructional aide has joined our staff at Marshall Lane. Her name is Dimple Bhayani and she is an experienced instructional assistant who has received specialized training in how to support students in their literacy development. Her work is mostly at the early levels supporting phonemic awareness in Kindergarten and first grade students. She also conducts a book club for higher level readers in 4th grade and provides some supervision at recess and behavioral support. We are thrilled to have Mrs. Dimple at our school!

In addition, the district has also provided a math coach for us this year using the additional funding that was provided. Mrs. Jill Reynolds is an experienced teacher and has joined us to support math instruction in third to fifth grades. She has been a great addition to our staff!

We are thrilled to have both of these experienced professionals working with us to support our Marshall Lane students this year.

This updated information was received from the Santa Clara County Health Department (SCCHD) regarding Covid testing requirements following an absence with Covid Symptoms. This should help to shorten the time for students to be out of school following an absence due to illness. Please keep in mind that students must still be symptom & medication free for 24 hours prior to returning to school. 

Please continue to use our  24 hour attendance line to report absences for your student(s).  Be sure to include the name of your child(ren), grade, date, reason for the absence and  include any symptoms that they are experiencing. Absences should be reported each morning that a student is absent from school regardless of the reason for the absence. Our 24 hour attendance number is: 408-341-7076

Message from the Santa Clara County Public Health Department (SCCPHD):

The SCCPHD recently announced a change in the testing requirements.  For a symptomatic individual, a negative antigen (rapid) test is sufficient to indicate the individual is negative, there is no requirement for waiting for a PCR confirmation unless you have had a positive result.

Another change, if an antigen test shows positive and the individual tests negative with PCR, the individual is considered negative for COVID.  

Acceptable proof of COVID test results:

• A printed document from the lab or test provider

• An electronic test result displayed on a phone or other device from the test provider or lab. Note: home testing continues to not be accepted.

• Information should include the person's name, type of test administered, negative test result, and date of test.