St. Ignatius Public Schools

Lunch Menu fo rthis Wednesday: Hamburgers, fruit , veggie Thursday: PB&J, fruit, veggie.

Thank You to the Montana Disaster Emergency Services who has dropped off 11 cases of Happy Home Hand Sanitizer; 34 Cases of Antibacterial Hand Wipes; Youth Face Masks! Much Thanks to the National Guard for delivering the supplies. 👍

August 31, 2020 Activity Report Last Week Recap: Football: Varsity Football lost at home to Thompson Falls 38-32 Volleyball: JV Volleyball lost to Charlo Varsity Volleyball lost to Charlo Cross Country: The boys team won the Thompson Falls Dual. Andrew Rush placed 2nd, Zoran LaFrombois placed 3rd. For the girls, Cedar Hunt placed 3rd. Activities this week: JV & Varsity Volleyball Thursday, September 3rd Start Time: 5:30 PM JV, 7:00 PM Varsity Location: Arlee Opponent: Arlee Warriors Fans/spectators: Each Mission volleyball player and coach will get 2 tickets for the game. You will still have to pay upon entry. Other notes: Please wear a mask and social distance as a visiting spectator. MS Football Thursday, September 3rd Start Time: 4:30 PM Location: Mission Opponent: Thompson Falls Fans/spectators: Home and visiting fans are allowed to attend this event. Masks/social distancing: All fans, home and away, must wear a mask upon entering the football venue. You may then remove your mask as long as social distancing is attainable. MS Volleyball Thursday, September 3rd Start Time: 4:00 PM & 5:00 PM Location: Mission Opponent: Thompson Falls Fans/spectators: Only home fans will be able to attend this event. HS/MS Cross Country Friday, September 4th Start Time: 1:00 PM Location: Ronan Fans/spectators: No visiting spectators will be allowed. Varsity Football Friday, September 4th Start Time: 7:00 PM Location: Phillipsburg Opponent: Flint Creek, Western C-8 Man Conference game Fans/spectators: Home and visiting fans are allowed to attend this event. Masks/social distancing: All fans, home and away, must wear a mask upon entering the football venue. You may then remove your mask as long as social distancing is attainable. Other notes: Please wear a mask and social distance as a visiting spectator. Additional information: Please have a grateful attitude and follow the rules. Our kids GET to play sports this fall. If we feel fans are not following the rules we have put into place. We will have to restrict fans at home events in order to follow our protocols.

A big Thank You to the Methodist Church and Mr. Derf Bergman for the school supply donation. We really appreciate it. 👍

Mark your calendar. No school for students Monday August 31. This is a teacher training day.

Reminder for tomorrow, Wednesday, Aug. 26th, that only TKO and K parents/guardians will be able to drop off their students at their classrooms inside the building. Parents/Guardians of 1-5 graders please make arrangements for your first day drop offs to happen outside of the school building. Thank you for understanding during the Covid 19 pandemic.

HS/MS Cross Country will be in Thompson Falls on Saturday August 29th at 10:00 am., not Libby. No spectators are able to attend this event.

August 23, 2020 Activity Report (Revised) Senior Night Senior Night has been moved up to the first home game for football and volleyball. This will guarantee that we have senior night this season. We understand this is short notice but we feel this is a necessary move for us to ensure our seniors get recognized. Football Senior Night: Friday August 28th vs. Thompson Falls Senior parents lined up at 6:15 pm in west endzone. Senior night starts at 6:30. Volleyball Senior Night: Saturday August 29th vs. Charlo Senior parents lined up in the commons just prior to the end of the JV game around 2:00. Senior night will start immediately following the completion of the JV game. We will not be limiting the number of family members that can walk with the senior athlete. We do ask that you social distance between families and wear a mask while lining up. Activities this week: Varsity Football Friday, August 28th Start Time: 7:00 PM Location: Mission Opponent: Thompson Falls Blue Hawks, Western C-8 Man Conference game Fans/spectators: Home and visiting fans are allowed to attend this event. Masks/social distancing: All fans, home and away, must wear a mask upon entering the football venue. You may then remove your mask as long as social distancing is attainable. While using the concession stand and bathrooms, we ask that you put your mask on and social distance in line. All spectators will enter the football venue at the same gate. Once paid, Mission fans must stay on the home sideline unless using the restroom or concessions. Thompson Falls fans must stay on the away sideline unless using the restroom or concessions. Other notes: Senior Night for football & cross country seniors. Senior parents must report to the west endzone at 6:15 pm. Senior night will begin at 6:30 pm. Please arrive early and support our seniors! JV & Varsity Volleyball Saturday, August 29th Start Time: 1:00 PM JV, 2:30 Varsity Location: Mission Opponent: Charlo Vikings, Non-conference game Fans/spectators: Home and visiting fans are allowed to attend this event. Masks/social distancing: All fans, home and away, must wear a mask upon entering the school/Dog House gymnasium. Masks must be worn the entire time you are in the school, gym, bathrooms, and concession lines per Governor mandate. Families can be seated next to each other but we ask that you maintain social distancing between families. There will be two rows of empty bleachers behind the team benches. Other notes: Senior Night for volleyball seniors. Senior parents must report to the HS commons towards the end of the JV game. Senior night will begin after the completion of the JV game. Please arrive early and support our seniors! All spectators will enter the school/Dog House gymnasium at the same gate. Once paid, Mission fans must stay on the home sideline unless using the restroom or concessions. Charlo fans must stay on the away sideline unless using the restroom or concessions. HS/MS Cross Country Saturday, August 29th Start Time: TBA Location: Libby Fans/spectators: TBA Masks/social distancing: TBA Other notes: Senior night for CC seniors will be during the football game on Friday August 29th. Additional information: To clarify the visiting fan rule, NO VISITING FANS are allowed for all conference contests for volleyball and cross country. For football, visiting fans are up to the host school. Mission High School has decided that visiting fans are allowable for football. Mission High School decided that for non-conference volleyball games with Charlo and Ronan we will allow visiting fans. If you have any questions or concerns, do not hesitate to email, text, or call. Athletics Covid-19: Follow-up on questions Here are our protocols for when student-athletes enter the building before practice. These questions are for both HS/MS. Coaches: If a student answers yes to the following questions, follow the procedure. Question: Is your temperature 100 degrees or higher? Has your temperature reached 100 degrees or higher in the past 72 hours? Procedure: Send student to picnic table outside to get a ride home, coach must contact parent, tell front office to disinfect picnic table. Student may return to practice once temperature is under 100 degrees. Question: Do you have any symptoms of illness, i.e. coughing, headache, sneezing, sore throat, shortness of breath, runny nose, vomiting, chest or nasal congestions, swollen glands? Procedure: Send student to picnic table outside to get a ride home, coach must contact parent, tell front office to disinfect picnic table once student leaves. If symptoms continue for 48 hours, student must get tested by a health care provider. Student cannot return until negative test result. If test comes back positive, student must quarantine for 14 days. Question: Have you had close contact, or is anyone in your immediate household/family able to answer Yes to the question above? Procedure: Send student to picnic table outside to get a ride home, coach must contact parent, tell front office to disinfect picnic table once student leaves. If household/family member’s symptoms last longer than 48 hours, student cannot return until household/family member tests negative. If test comes back positive, student must get tested and quarantine for 14 days. Question: Have you or anyone in your family/household been in close contact with anyone who has a confirmed COVID-19 testing, diagnosis, or treatment? Procedure: Send student to picnic table outside to get a ride home, coach must contact parent, tell front office to disinfect picnic table once student leaves. Recommend to parent that student get tested by a health care provider. Student cannot return until negative test result and 14 day quarantine is complete. Question: Have you traveled in the past 14 days to regions affected by COVID-19? If yes procedure: If no to all questions above, student is cleared. If yes to any questions above, send student to picnic table outside to get a ride home, coach must contact parent, tell front office to disinfect picnic table once student leaves. Recommend to parent that student get tested by a health care provider. Student cannot return until negative test result. Tyler Murray Athletic Director tmurray@missionbulldogs.org 406-381-8366

Senior Night has been moved up to the first home game for football and volleyball. This will guarantee that we have senior night this season. We understand this is short notice but we feel this is a necessary move for us to ensure our seniors get recognized. Football Senior Night: Friday August 28th vs. Thompson Falls Senior parent lined up at 6:15 pm in west endzone. Senior night starts at 6:30. Volleyball Senior Night: Saturday August 29th vs. Charlo Senior parents lined up in the commons just prior to the end of the JV game around 2:00. Senior night will start immediately following the completion of the JV game. We will not be limiting the number of family members that can walk with the senior athlete. We do ask that you social distance between families and wear a mask while lining up.

New Elementary Classrooms

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Substitute Training on Wednesday, August 19th, at 9:30am in the MultiPurpose Room in the Elementary. All current substitutes and interested substitutes need to attend this training. We need some great subs to add to our great sub list! If you need more information call Connie, Elementary Secretary, at 745-3811 ext 3

August 17th, 2020 Activity Report Good afternoon Bulldog student-athletes, parents, and spectators. In order to keep everyone on the same page and keep communication flowing, I will be sending out an activity report on Friday mornings each week for the upcoming week. These activity reports will be sent to all staff via email, posted on our St. Ignatius Public Schools app, and posted on Facebook each Friday morning. For example, when an activity report comes out on August 21st, it will be in regards to the week of August 24th-29th. This is the first installment of this and we will work together to make sure your questions are covered. I will address many things including typical game information such as who we are playing, location, and start times, Covid-19 updates, and results from the previous week. Covid-19 Updates Due to Covid-19, there have been some restrictions on crowd sizes. This directly impacts school athletic events. One of the main reasons I am sending these weekly updates out is to inform the community about if they can attend and if they can’t, how they can watch the event. We will be able to Facebook live all events if the host school does not have a streaming device available. Mission High School is currently in the process of getting a Pixelot camera for the gym and the football field to stream our competition through the NFHS Network. The Western B Athletic Directors, applicable to volleyball and cross country, decided to not allow visiting team fans at this time. Each visiting team will be given five admin/media passes. We will have conversations between admin, coaches, and senior parent athletes about who is going to receive those passes. We feel that senior athlete parents should receive first dibs on those passes so they can watch their child’s final season. When we distribute those passes, it is the responsibility of the pass recipient to stream the game to our school’s Facebook page and to maintain updates on the score. The Western C-8 Man coaches and ADs met as well and each school is deciding on whether or not to let visiting fans into events. Mission High School will be allowing visiting teams’ fans to attend our games. They must wear a mask upon entry but can remove their mask if social distancing is attainable. Sport Updates Middle school football, high school football, volleyball, and cross country start on August 14th while middle school volleyball and cross country start on the first day of school. Students are required to wear masks as they enter the building, in the locker rooms, and during practice when appropriate. Our gaiter style masks should be here next week and each student-athlete will receive one at no cost. If you have any questions or concerns, do not hesitate to email, text, or call. Tyler Murray Athletic Director tmurray@missionbulldogs.org 406-381-8366

Announcement:  We have made some changes to our monthly board meeting protocols.  We have added speakers to the board room so that anyone online can follow the meeting discussion.  The only questions that can be asked during a board meeting will be questions related to agenda items and typed into the chat and recorded by a designated person of the district, who will then ask the questions during discussion.  Any questions can be asked by calling or stopping by the district office anytime during working hours.  If you feel your question is imperative to be asked you will need to attend the meeting to make sure you have your opportunity.  We have tested the speakers and they work great.  Thank you-

MS Football players and parents! Practice is starting tomorrow, please meet in the HS Commons at 4:00.

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Hey! Have you let the school know yet if your child is attending our elementary school in person or our distance learning option? You can call 745-3811 ext 3 for the elementary or you can email cmarchant@stignatiusschools.org if you find the phones busy. Either way, we need to hear from guardians and parents by August 18th. Thank you!

Elementary Summer Recovery School! All K-5 students are invited! August 3-13, M-Th, 8:00-11:00 AM Session or 12:00-300 Session. Register here: https://forms.gle/dqxheH66DJ162or58 or text "Summer School" to 406-404-6738

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