Today, March 17, 2020 Governor Laura Kelly announced all school facilities will be closed for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year. This will place tremendous hardship on our families and staff, and impact the social and emotional well-being of our students. We have been working on contingency plans since mid-March, including how we can continue to meet the ongoing learning needs of our students and provide meals for our students as well.
Our staff and board of education are also working on other critical issues, such as what this means for our seniors, how this will affect next school year and what impact this will have on our employees. We will provide updates on these issues as soon as the information is available.
We are committed to working together as a community to support one another throughout these unprecedented times, and communication will remain a top priority. We will continue updating you on our Live Feed portion of our website as well as on our official Facebook page. We will make all-calls once our plan is in place to share our educational plans with all of you. Call the district office at 620-596-2152 if you are not on our All Call list at present.
As a reminder, this school closure is in response to the current public health crisis. The focus should remain on preventing the spread of the coronavirus, or COVID-19 as it is also referred to.
Please be mindful of the following:
Wash your hands frequently with soap and water for at least 20 seconds.
Cover your nose and mouth when coughing and sneezing.
Cough/sneeze into your sleeve or a tissue.
Keep sick children at home
Avoid close contact with anyone with cold or flu-like symptoms.
Follow additional guidance from these sources:
National Center for Disease Control (https://www.cdc.gov/)
Kansas Dept. of Health and Environment (http://www.kdheks.gov)
Reno County Health Dept. (https://www.renogov.org/239/Health-Department)
We are Fairfield strong. We will make it through this difficult time. Stay tuned for more information.
Derek Zongker, USD 310 Board of Education President
Betsy McKinney, USD #310 Superintendent
Here are more resources, shared by our Fairfield Social Workers.
Here are two lists of local groups offering community assistance to those of you needing help.
Check here to learn about free commodity distribution on March 22nd.
Here is today's press release from the Reno County Health Department.
We have had several questions regarding prom on April 4. With the school closure due to COVID-19, we will be rescheduling prom, but at this time we do not have any more details. We will inform everyone of those changes once we have more information.
USD 310 will be providing free lunches for students aged 1-18 during the week of March 16-20. Meals will be delivered on Monday, March 16 and Wednesday, March 18. On Monday, students will receive lunch for both Monday and Tuesday. The Wednesday delivery will include lunches for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Students will not be required to eat on site.
Meals will be delivered to the following locations:
Langdon City Office--11-11:10
Arlington Community Center--11:20-11:30
Arlington Methodist Church--11:35-11:45
Abbyville Park--12-12:10
Plevna School--11-11:10
Sylvia Park--11:20-11:30
Turon Park--11:45-12:00
If you have any questions, please contact food service director Jaqui Conrad at 620-596-2007--Thank you!
USD 310 is in the process of applying for a school lunch waiver which will allow us to deliver meals during our closure for COVID-19. Please keep checking back for further updates. This meal service could begin as soon as Monday morning. We will keep everyone posted as soon as we hear back from the state.
By request of KSDE, Fairfield Schools will be closed this week (3/16-3/20) and also remain closed the following week for our regularly scheduled Spring Break. This is being done statewide as an effort to stem the spread of COVID-19. Please try over the next two weeks to avoid being in large groups of people. The District Office will remain open, and custodial staff will report to do a deep cleaning. We are currently working on a plan to deliver food to students in each community and once that is finalized, we will make an another all-call. Teachers will not be on campus, nor will any other employee unless they are custodial or food service. No USD #310 buses will run. Thank you for your support and patience. This is unchartered territory for all of us, but we will make it through.
This is information regarding our plan at Fairfield to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. This information is current as of today, March 13th, 2020, but is subject to change if the CDC, KDHE, KSDE, and Reno County Health Departments advise otherwise. It is important that we all stay calm, wash our hands, and do what can to stop the spread of this virus.
The following events are cancelled for next week at USD 310: FHS Forensics Tournament (3/14); Farm2U FFA Field Trip (3/16); Parent Teacher Conferences (3/17 & 3/18); and the Vo-Tech Tour for (3/17.) Parents are encouraged to contact their child's teachers to arrange conferences via telephone, internet, or email. These changes are in response to CDC, KDHE, and KSDE guidelines for schools to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Sorry for any inconvenience.
The NJCAA basketball tournament in Hutchinson has been postponed, therefore, the FAC and basketball teams will not be attending the games on Monday, March 16.
Mr. New’s Art class enjoyed a trip to the Birger Sandzen Memorial Art Gallery in Lindsborg.
The Realcare babies are getting ready to go home for the weekend!
On March 17 and 18, all 7th, 8th, 10th and 11th grade students will be taking the Kansas Assessments. Here are some tips to help your child be successful on these tests!
Music students had a great day at festival today! Choir, Abby, and Kayley received outstanding(I) ratings. Band, Cymbre, and Zack received excellent (II) ratings! A shout out to stellar accompanist, Sharon for sharing her talent with our students every day!!
FHS Choir performing at league music festival.
On Saturday March 7th the Falcon Powerlifters traveled to Trego Community High School. It was a long day but everyone competed hard and many set new maxes for themselves. We also had a couple of medalists. Eva Schwertfeger placed 3rd in the bench press, and Paisley Smyth placed 1st in the bench press, 1st in the squat and 1st for overall weight lifted in her class.
Bike raffle tonight will begin approximately at 8:45 pm. Winners have to be present in order to win the bikes.
Come out to Fairfield tonight for our FPO Carnival from 6-9:00. There will be concession stand, games, inflatables, silent auction, bike raffle, and great family fun. Bracelets are $10 each.