January 11, 2022

Hello Parents,

I wanted to draw your attention to our COVID-19 situation. As a school, we currently have an elevated number of positive cases. We want to remind you of some information that is available on the Alpine Return to Learn website. While our current number does not require a Test to Stay protocol, we can all work together to hopefully avoid reaching that threshold.

Summary of COVID-19 Protocols

Feel Sick, Stay Home – Students who have symptoms should stay home from school. Having symptomatic individuals stay home will significantly reduce the spread of the virus and assist us in maintaining healthy school environments.

Face Masks – Although not required, we highly recommend the use of masks for all students and staff while indoors, especially those who are not vaccinated and/or who have health vulnerabilities. Face masks can only be required by order of our local health department. Families should make their own decision about when and where their child will wear a face mask at school. Be advised that most health officials encourage wearing face masks to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. (We have face masks available in the office and from teachers.)

COVID-19 Testing – Under current state statute, testing is only required in a Test to Stay protocol. The Utah County Health Department in collaboration with Alpine School District will conduct the Test to Stay protocol when a school meets the established threshold of more than 30 positive COVID-19 cases or 2%+ for schools larger than 1,500 students. If this happens, Alpine School District will follow the disease protocol guidelines outlined by local and state health officials. The purpose of Test to Stay is for the school to provide COVID-19 testing for students during an outbreak at a school in order to:

Identify cases of COVID-19; and

allow individuals who test negative for COVID-19 to attend school in person.

In coordination with the local school, county, and state health officials, Alpine School District will set up a COVID-19 testing process during the school day and provide the test (with parent permission) at no charge to the family. In a Test to Stay protocol, only the students who meet one of the following criteria will be allowed to continue to attend school and extracurricular activities:

Have a negative COVID-19 test, either from the school testing process or from a certified testing location (at-home test results will not be accepted);

Provide proof of vaccination for COVID-19; or

Provide documentation showing a positive COVID-19 test in the previous 180 days.

Students who test positive for COVID-19 or who refuse to be tested (and do not provide proof of vaccination or positive test in the previous 180 days) will be isolated for the period of the Test to Stay program. (At-home test results will not be accepted.) Students isolated at home will be supported in their learning.

If your child has received a notice from a school nurse about exposure, they should follow the guidelines listed. Please use the dates from your most recent notification. (FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS)

Working with everyone in our community, we strive for safety and in-class learning!

Kindest Regards,

Courtney Johnson

CVHS Principal

“Soar to New Horizons” 2021-2022 School Theme

Dear CVHS Aviators,

It’s hard to believe that this is the last week of 2021! With only 4 ½ days of school left it is more important than ever to help your students turn in any outstanding assignments over the next couple of days before your much-deserved holiday break!

Please make note of the following:

1. Minimal Day, Friday, December 17, 2021

Friday, December 17th is the end of the 2nd term. The schedule will be a Minimal Day schedule. Below is Friday’s bell schedule:

1st Period 7:45-8:25

2nd Period 8:30-9:10

3rd Period 9:15-9:55

4th Period 10:00-10:40

Lunch 10:40-11:15 (One lunch period only)

Busses leave 11:15

2. School Lunch

For Minimal Week, Breakfast and Lunch will both be cold items on Minimal Day Friday, December 17, 2021. Choice of cold cereals, yogurt, fruit, and milk for Breakfast. Lunch will be Uncrustable sandwiches, string cheese, cookie graham snacks, and choices of fresh fruit and vegetables.

3. School Safety

As a reminder, safety comes first. Cedar Valley High School has a protocol in place for emergency situations. Please refer to this document for details about the protocol. In addition to this protocol, we have faculty that will be participating in a research-based threat assessment training. Safety begins and ends with all of us. The most important thing any of us can do is to say something when we see something. All safety concerns should be reported to the administration.

4. How Sick is Too Sick

As the flu season is upon us, please review the following flyer.

“HOW SICK IS TOO SICK?” FLIER

5. Resources

If you or your students are in need of some mental health resources over the break you can access https://211utah.org/index.php/mental-health

This is a great website with all kinds of resources.

6. Upcoming Dates to Remember:

2-week calendar

I hope you all have a wonderful winter break!

Courtney Johnson

Cedar Valley HS Principal

“Soar to New Horizons” 2021-2022 School Theme

Dear CVHS Aviators,

I want to take a minute and express my thankfulness for the amazing parents that you are. I know it is not easy and your job is often a thankless job. From sunrise to sundown, everything you do is out of concern for your children. Aside from Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, gratitude is not really expressed enough.

I am also thankful for our military and have felt the presence of their service this entire month at CVHS. The displays, songs, and pictures in the school have served as a remembrance to our beautiful young students.

Please make note of the following:

1. Online Driver’s Ed is open for December.

If interested please register here. The class starts on December 1st. If you have any questions please email Mr. Roberts at [email protected]

2. School Lunch Changes

We will no longer allow food outside the cafeteria and commons areas. This includes no food outdoors. Just like many of you don’t allow food out of your kitchen and dining areas, the concept is the same here at school. We have had one of the cleanest schools in the state and we want to keep it that way!

3. Upcoming Dates to Remember

2-week calendar

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Courtney Johnson

Cedar Valley HS Principal

Dear Parents,

Welcome to November. We have so much to be thankful for at CVHS!

Please make note of the following:

1. Substitute Teachers Needed

We have a shortage of substitute teachers. If you are anyone you know who would like to help sub, please encourage them to sign up through ESS. We will be happy to help anyone sign up if needed. Just come by and talk to Hannah! We love our substitute teachers and will cover the cost of a Jet Fuel specialty drink and a school lunch! Our students need you!!!

If you are interested or know someone who is, please link here for more information. Or contact Heather Hokanson

Heather Hokanson, Area Manager

801.927.0689 | [email protected]

2. Senior Monday Graduation Meeting

On Monday, November 8th at 8:00 a.m. in the Auditorium we will be holding the Senior Assembly. We will be going over upcoming activities and dates, graduation information, and Josten’s will be here to distribute their graduation Cap and Gown ordering packets. After the assembly is over, the information will be made available on the counseling department website, and extra packets will be in the Student Center for Seniors who were not able to attend.

Josten’s will be at Cedar Valley HS in the Commons area on November 15th & 16th during lunches to take orders and answer any questions.

3. Honor Roll Recognition

Term 1 honor roll recognition will be this Wednesday and Thursday during lunch. We are so excited to recognize these kiddos!

4. New Filtering Software

The district is testing a new filtering software on the Chromebooks. Here are some points to be aware of.

This software will potentially impact the use of Chromebooks both at school and at home.

Users will see a new screen saying that the page has been blocked by ContentKeeper.

The software may take longer to load. Users will notice a progress bar on the top right corner. Please be patient as the Chromebook logs in.

5. Finance Office Closed Wednesday

6. Upcoming Dates to Remember

2-week calendar

Thank you all so much!

Courtney Johnson

Cedar Valley HS Principal

Dear Parents,

With term 2 beginning, we know it is an opportunity to start fresh and help our students be successful.

Attendance is one of the most powerful predictors of academic achievement. Please log into Skyward and check your child’s attendance daily. Students do best when teachers, counselors, administrators, and parents encourage students to be in class.

Most of all, we miss your students when they are not at school. We need all our students to make unique contributions to our school community that only they can bring!

Also, for all our future Aviators out there, please come to the school tonight for our Trick or Treat the Terminals at 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm! Our students will make our terminals (halls) spooky and will pass out candy to the children. There is a minimal charge for a dollar per child to help cover costs!

Finally, please help your students learn from their mistakes. Here is the Jet Time Video our students watched this morning titled, Learning From Our Mistakes! Please watch this powerful video with your family to help them learn and grow! My entire family loves watching these!!!

Please make note of the following:

1. First Term Grades, Thursday, 10-21

Grades will be available on the Skyward Student Portfolio page.

If you have any questions, please reach out to your teachers.

2. School Breakfast/Lunch Food Options

Our lunch manager met with our administration team and discussed how various food shortages are making student lunch options problematic. Things like hamburgers may not even be something we can offer for a while even if they are on the district menu.

Our lunch team is doing its best to provide food for the largest number of students in the district. I am so impressed with their creative solutions to feeding so many students. If you see a lunch service provider, please tell them how much you appreciate their service.

3. Safety Update

Our next drill will be on Tuesday, October 26 during A1. It will be a combination of “Hold, Secure (formerly Lockout), and Lockdown.

4. Winter Team information meeting tonight, Monday 10/25th @ 7 pm

If your child is involved in a winter sport, please attend the meeting tonight! If you have a student who would like to try out for girls’ or boys’ basketball or wrestling, please join us tonight in the auditorium. Go, AVIATORS!

5. Halloween @ Harry’s [Harry Potter] in the Media Center

Monday- Photo booth with Harry Potter Costume for all shapes and sizes. Bring your friends by the media center to a) Swing by the media center to allow the Sorting Hat to assign you to your House of Hogwarts. Then hit up the Potter Photo booth. You can help yourself to wizarding costumes for a post-able photo in front of platform 9 3/4. Photo booth starts today and goes until this Friday in the media center.

Tuesday – Harry Potter sent us some chocolate frogs via Owl Post. The Media Center has a magical scavenger hunt that will send you through the muggle books to see if you can win a chocolate delight from Honey dukes. And, of course, enjoy Harry Potter’s Photo booth.

Thursday – It’s Hot Cocoa at Harry’s day. Swing by for a cup of Harry’s Hot Cocoa in the media center. And one last chance to hit up the Harry Potter photo booth.

Upcoming Dates to Remember:

2-week calendar

Thank you all so much!

Courtney Johnson

Cedar Valley HS Principal

“Soar to New Horizons” 2021-2022 School Theme

Dear Parents,

As the first quarter comes to an end, I would like to take this opportunity to remind our students and families about some of our important work with students. If our students could learn just one life-changing principle, it would be “respect”. We want our kids to respect one another, school property, and the learning process.

Respect One Another: To honor how very different and unique we all are is a gift you can teach your children. Recently as many of you may know, I was diagnosed with GBS. I bring this up because when I took my first “walking outing” with my husband Kent, we went to Costco. I could walk with the cart and no one would know, right? Well, I did great until I reached the back of the store. Then… I got tired, and when I got tired, I started to spasm out of control. I learned firsthand what it feels like to be singled out and to be the target of another person’s visual fixation! it hurt my old lady’s feelings. I don’t want anyone to feel singled out for being different at CVHS. We have such loving students, but once in a while, students can be singled out and hurt each other.

Respect School Property: With the Tik Tok challenges, we have had a few students think it’s a good idea to destroy a few items in the school. In these instances, we had the student pay for the damage. Please talk with your children regarding how expensive this can be for families.

Respect the Learning Process: To learn, students must respect the process that it takes to obtain knowledge. Respect the teacher and other students by engaging and working hard to finish assignments and homework.

I hope you all welcome the opportunity to talk with your children about “respect” so we can make learning at CVHS a positive experience for everyone!

Let’s make October a great month for respect!

Please make note of the following:

1. Tuesday, October 12th – Hour Long Lunch

We had a Jet Time incentive to improve attendance for 1st term. As part of the incentive, the students will get an hour-long lunch on Tuesday, October 12th. Below is the bell schedule for the hour lunch next Tuesday.

Bell Schedule – 1 hour Lunch

Class Time Period Length

1st Period 7:45 – 9:02 77

2nd Period 9:08 – 10:29 81

3rd Period 10:35 – 11:52 77

Lunch 11:52 – 12:52 60

4th Period 12:58 – 2:15 77

2. Wednesday, October 13th – Minimal Day

Breakfast and Lunch will both be cold items on Minimal Day Wednesday, Oct. 13. Choice of cold cereals, yogurt, fruit, and milk for Breakfast. Lunch will be Uncrustable sandwiches, string cheese, cookie graham snacks, and choices of fresh fruit and vegetables.

Wednesday is the end of the 1st term. The schedule will be a Minimal Day schedule. Below is Wednesday’s bell schedule: 9

Minimal Day Bell Schedule

1st Period 7:45-8:25

2nd Period 8:30-9:10

3rd Period 9:15-9:55

4th Period 10:00-10:40

Lunch 10:40-11:15

3. PTSA Reflections

The Reflections deadline has been extended to October 15th. I’ve had a couple contact me last minute asking if they can enter, and the answer is YES! Yes, they can! Also, entrants need to remember that in order to qualify they must interpret this year’s theme in their artist statement. The theme is: “I Can Change The World By…”

If you have any questions please email, Holly Jones

[email protected]

4. Community Wreath Community Fundraiser- Community Opportunity

Wreaths Across America is a national 501C3 organization committed to honoring fallen veterans during the holiday season in two ways. First, to sell wreaths for $15 each which covers harvesting the trees, assembly, and shipping. $5 of the $15 dollars will go directly to our sponsoring chapter, and we are donating those proceeds to military youth and family services on Camp Williams. Second, to gather volunteers to lay the wreaths-hopefully as families, and standing at the graveside personally thank the fallen veterans. Our chapter will be sponsoring the Utah State Veterans Cemetery in Bluffdale.

Any students or their families that would like to purchase a wreath, or sign up to volunteer please contact

Burgundy Keel

801-472-5840

https://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/

https://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/pages/168427

5. Upcoming Dates to Remember:

2-week calendar

Thank you all so much!

Courtney Johnson

Cedar Valley HS Principal