Dear families,

Don’t forget that we are working on a fundraising clothing donation drive — so if you’re spring cleaning, please save your clothes, shoes, and linens for us!  We’ll be collecting bags from NOW thru May 29th and hopefully delivering them to Savers West Roxbury on June 5th.  Please reach out to Ronda Morra: 781-589-7226 or rbmorra@gmail.com if you can volunteer to help, or if you have bags ready to be picked up!

COVID-19 Pooled Testing

Our testing participation levels are hovering around 40% in all schools.  We really need to increase participation to 70-80% for testing to be effective.

We NEED YOUR participation to make this work.  The more students who participate, the better data we have on infection rates in our community.  This means we can:

• Quickly identify infection

• Reduce the risk of in school transmission

• Limit quarantines

• Keep our schools, athletics and other important activities open for the rest of the year

Please note: Testing is now MANDATORY for all high school students participating in athletics or extracurricular activities.

Here’s how to enroll and a few details on the testing:

• Complete the opt-in in Aspen (here’s the link!)

• High school students then create an account at JCM (do it here!) for access to a QR code they use to check in their sample.  (Pre-K – 8th grade students will receive their QR code from school staff.)

• This is NOT the “touch your brain” swab!  This is a sample taken from the front of your nose with a Q-tip like swab.  It’s super-fast and painless.

• Testing is FREE to all families!

Please REMIND your students to turn in their sample when they arrive at school!

Also, MCAS testing is coming up soon.  The test dates for DLA students are different from those for in-person students; the information on DLA MCAS was in the most recent DLA newsletter, and you may have received information from your teachers about it as well.

Lincoln-Eliot MCAS 2021 Dates (for students attending in person)

Have a great week!

Principal Morrissey & the PTO