St. Johns County families get glimpse inside schools ahead of first day Monday

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – One of the past groups of Northeast Florida students heads backmost to schoolhouse connected Monday.

But connected Friday, St. Johns County parents and students got to conscionable their teachers for the archetypal time.

It was a agelong clip coming for 1 mom, whose girl is going to archetypal grade. Last year, she attended virtual school.

“She was successful kindergarten past twelvemonth and did everything virtually, truthful we’ve ne'er been wrong the building, truthful I deliberation I’m astir apt a small much excited than she is,” 1 ma told america with a laugh.

For others, it was a monumental time due to the fact that they’re making the leap from simple to mediate schoolhouse connected Monday.

“I’m looking guardant to gathering caller friends and conscionable having fun,” a sixth-grader said.

Last year, parents weren’t capable to conscionable their child’s teachers successful person, but this year, families dropped off supplies and got some one-on-one clip with teachers. Some with masks, others without.

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Either way, determination are batch of changes successful the region this school year:

• No table shields, but parents tin petition them.

Liberty Pines Academy Principal Traci Hemingway cannot hold for the caller twelvemonth to begin.

“This is 1 of my favourite days due to the fact that I get to spot each of my families,” Hemingway said. “We didn’t get to bash a existent Wolf Greeting past year. We had to bash it virtually. So the information that our schools are unfastened for families to spot the classroom, not from a machine screen, but really spot it successful idiosyncratic – I person heard from aggregate parents however excited they were to beryllium capable to get that accidental this year.”

For much accusation astir the district’s COVID-19 program and policies spell to https://www.stjohns.k12.fl.us/.

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