Country Day announced 2022-23 COVID-19 policy revisions in a recent schoolwide email. The major changes include optional masking indoors and outdoors, less frequent COVID-19 testing and the elimination of the Pick-Up Patrol app. All policy changes follow the Sacramento County…
Country Day has reinstated a mandatory indoor masking requirement for all students and staff in the high school after experiencing an increase in COVID-19 cases. The school reinstated the indoor mask mandate to “limit the number of cases on campus,”…
In a May 2 email to the SCDS community, head of school Lee Thomsen urged families to consider wearing masks in classrooms. The recommendation comes in response to five positive COVID-19 cases in the lower school in the last week….
In response to an “uptick in exposure” to COVID-19 on campus, the school is distributing two COVID-19 antigen tests per student so students can test outside of on-campus testing windows, according to an email sent out to the SCDS community…
Students, teachers and staff at Country Day are no longer required to wear mask indoors, but the school strongly encourages them to stay masked following the March 12 change. This unmasking adheres to the California Department of Public Health’s new…
California COVID-19 masking mandates are evolving as infection rates fall. Following state and country guidance, Sacramento Country Day School ditched outdoor masking requirements Feb. 28. During the week that followed some students unmasked outside and some did not. No one…
How COVID-19 weakened Country Day music programs Sitting with her assembled, yet unused trombone after a short Zoom band class, sophomore Harper Livesey decided to quit. During the 2020-21 school year, Livesey left the concert band after four years of…
English teacher Jason Hinojosa will moderate a one-hour Country Day Queer Voices panel on Jan 12 at 1:30 p.m. in the Matthews Library. All seniors will be attending the panel, but Hinojosa encourages interested students of other grades to attend,…
With the increased spread of the COVID-19 Delta and Omicron variants, everyone remains at risk for infection, particularly the unvaccinated. As of Dec. 6, 20 individuals in the Country Day community have tested positive for COVID-19 this school year, according…
Country Day will comply with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new vaccine mandate that will require all students and faculty members in eligible age groups to be fully vaccinated. This mandate will affect both public and private schools, with medical and personal…
