Centerville Public Schools

The junior high basketball game against DGS on Saturday, December 19 has been canceled Junior high basketball winter season is over.

LEAP will only be canceled for the rest of December. We don't have enough coverage to run the program. However, it is our plan to re-open LEAP after Christmas Break on Monday, January 4th. Sorry for any inconveniences ! Please feel to call the office at 736-5167 with any questions or concerns! Thank you!

JHBB Game Change Times: JHBB @ Hobson Friday, December 4 No Girls B Game Girls "A" 4:00pm Boys "B" 5:00pm Boys "A" 6:00pm Bus Departures Girls 2:00pm Boys 3:00pm

Dear Centerville Families, The Centerville School will return to in-student learning on Monday, November 30th. All buses will return to their normal scheduled drop-off and pick-up times. Please prepare your child to return to school by making sure all remote learning assignments have been completed. We would like to thank all parents and students for your cooperation.

Dear Centerville Families, As we plan our return to a regular school schedule on Monday, November 30th, we would like to remind families of the efforts each of us can make to ensure our transition back to in-school learning is successful and we minimize interruptions to our school schedule in the future: 1) If students are not feeling well, PLEASE DO NOT SEND THEM TO SCHOOL. For many people, the symptoms of Covid are similar or the same as the symptoms of a common cold. For this reason, sending students to school with a runny nose or slight cough might actually mean you are sending them with a case of Covid-19. In the event of a positive diagnosis for anyone who has been in our school building, we must do contact tracing and require those in close contact with the infected individual to quarantine for 14 days. In a classroom, this could mean all students and the teacher must quarantine following contact with a positive individual. 2) If your school-age child tests positive for Covid-19, please follow all local Department of Health guidelines prior to sending them back to school. In most cases, at a minimum, this requires a 10-day isolation from the start of symptoms. 3) If a member of your family has tested positive for Covid-19, please do not send your students to school until they have completed the required 14-day quarantine based on contact with the infected individual and are not showing any signs of illness. 4) If you have received any positive diagnoses in your family that might affect Centerville students, please let the school know ASAP. All health information is kept confidential. 5) PLEASE CONSIDER APPLYING TO BE A SUBSTITUE TEACHER AT CENTERVILLE SCHOOL. One of the main reasons for school closures around the state is a lack of staffing due to quarantines and illness for teachers. Here at Centerville we have an extreme shortage of substitute teachers this year. In an effort to encourage more people to consider subbing, the school board recently took action to increase the daily pay for our substitute teachers. Currently, non-certified subs will be paid $12.13/hour and certified subs will be paid $13.75/hour. Even if you are available only one afternoon per week, every hour helps. If you are interested in being a substitute teacher, please contact the school office at 406-736-5167 to start the process. We look forward to welcoming our students and staff back to school. It is safe to say we can all agree that the best education happens within the four walls of our school, and students are happier and more successful when life is as “normal” as possible. Thank you for being patient and supportive as we navigate these unprecedented times. As is often said, it takes a village. We need all members of our small school community to work together for the greater good, and we WILL see positive results! Sincerely, Centerville School Board of Trustees

We hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are so excited to see everyone back in the building on Monday, November 30th! WE MISSED YOU!! School and bus routes will run a normal schedule with the exception of NO LEAP for the week of November 30-December 3rd. Please look for more information later today from Mr. McGee.

Dear Parents, Due to increased Covid cases, teachers will be remote teaching from home for the remainder of the school closure. Office will be accepting phone calls with one person on staff. Meal deliveries have been canceled for November 19, 23 and 24th. See you on November 30th! Happy Thanksgiving!! The Administration

Tonight's (Monday, November 16th) facility meeting at 4:30 has been postponed until a future date.

Grab and Go Meals will be offered again to all students. These meals are FREE of charge. Please contact the office by 9:00 am to reserve your meal. 736-5167 GRAB & GO MEALS DROPOFF TIMES BUS # 1 11:15 – 11:30 STOCKETT PLAYGROUND 11:45 – 12:00 TRACY BAR 12:15 – 12:30 CORRAL –STOCKETT HWY BUS # 2 11:15 – 11:30 SAND COULEE POST OFFICE 11:45 – 12:00 ROSS RD & EDEN HWY 12:15 – 12:30 THE LITTLE STORE TRAILER TERRACE SCHOOL 11:00 – 5:00 FRONT DOOR

Parents, if you are in need of borrowing an electronic device, please contact the office to request an IPAD or Laptop. Please understand it will take some time to fill your request. For Junior High/High School students, please make sure you log into the device before leaving or you will not be able to access the device at home. Thank you for your patience, The Office 736-5167

The Centerville School will be closing to in student learning effective Thursday, November 12th. In person learning will resume on Monday, November 30th. All students will be in remote learning from November 12-24 back in school learning on Monday, November 30th. School will be open tomorrow, November 11, However, the school board is encouraging parents to please keep your children home tomorrow . For those parents who need a day for planning the school will be open tomorrow November 11th for those students. Buses will be run their regular routes.

There will be an emergency school board meeting tonight at 6pm to discuss the possibility of Remote Learning starting tomorrow Wednesday, November 11, 2020.

Friday, November 13th Junior High Basketball game in Geyser against DGS has been CANCELED.

Monday, November 9th school will be closed due to extreme weather conditions. All practices are canceled as well. Snow Day

Dear Parents/Guardians, In light of the increased positive Covid cases in our community and numerous student quarantines and more importantly in an effort to keep our office and main building open, we are asking for the public's help. At 7:00 am on November 5th, the front doors to the Centerville School building will be locked until further notice. Access is limited to students and staff. In the event you need to pick up your student early please contact the office by phone or email in advance. Please call ahead if an appointment is needed to meet with school personnel. We appreciate your help in our attempt to maintain in person learning. Without your help our effort would not be possible.

Junior high basketball game on Friday, November 6th against the Rivals in Highwood has been canceled.

November 2, 2020 Dear Centerville School Families, Due to recent COVID cases in our community the Centerville School has decided to rethink it’s in person parent teacher conferences. Parent teacher conferences scheduled for November 3rd and November 5th have be postponed and rescheduled for November 10th and November 12th respectively. I am working with teachers to set up virtual grade-by-grade parent meetings for November 10th and November 12th. You will receive an email invite to your scheduled parent meeting with instructions on how to access your virtual parent meeting. These meetings will be held using Google Meets. Some teachers may send information home before the conference so as to help parents have a more productive meeting on their child’s progress. Sincerely, John McGee Superintendent

October 28, 2020 Dear Centerville Public School Parents and Guardians: On Wednesday, the Centerville School District was made aware that a Centerville Public School staff member has tested positive for COVID-19. Knowing that our work with Cascade County Health Department will begin today, we made the decision to close Centerville Public School tomorrow, Thursday, October 29, 2020, to allow adequate time for contact tracers to complete their work per our school reopening plan. We will work collaboratively with the Cascade County Health Department to complete the investigation. It is our belief that the process will take most of the day today, 10/28. The Health Department will begin the process of notifying individuals considered to be in “close contact” with the staff member who tested positive. Out of an abundance of caution, students will NOT be attending in-person or remote learning at Centerville Public School on Thursday, 10/29. Effective at 4:15pm Wednesday 10/28, the building will be shut down with NO activities taking place. The district will resume school on Monday 11/2 unless you are otherwise notified. John McGee Superintendent

Fort Benton High School District 7C Volleyball Tournament Covid-19 Guidelines • Only spectators from the two teams playing in the specified match will be allowed to attend. • Spectators will be on pre-approved lists sent by each school. Six fans per uniformed player will be allowed to attend. Four fans per manager/alternate and two fans per coach will be allowed. This will be a maximum of 84 fans/team, plus 3 administrator passes. • An administrator from each school will be required to attend to monitor their fans. • There will be no pep band/student sections allowed during the post season. • Spectators are required to wear masks at all times except while eating/drinking. • Fans are recommended to maintain social distance between family groups when seated in the gym. All of the fans from one team will sit on one side of the gym, with all of the fans from the other team on the other side of the gym. • Social distancing placards have been placed on the floor at the concessions stand. There will be no seating provided in the concessions area to eliminate congregating in that area. • Hand sanitizer stations will be placed in the foyer and in the concessions area. • Signage will be up in the bleacher area, foyer, and concessions area reminding fans of physical distancing and to wear masks. • Announcements will be made periodically reminding fans of physical distancing and to wear masks. • Contact tracing will be done on everyone that enters the fascility. • The gym/concessions area/locker rooms will be cleared of all fans/team personnel after each match and cleaned before the next teams and fans enter the building.

Tonight's (Friday, October 23rd) home volleyball game against CJI has been POSTPONED due to the weather until Monday, October 26 with JV starting at 5:00pm and varsity +20.