Week of January 30, 2022
It is hard to believe that we will be turning the page in January this week. This has been another great month at EWA. We continue to navigate COVID and the Omicron Variant. Two years ago, the first reported case of COVID happened in the United States. The past two years have challenged us all, and hopefully, we will continue to grow and come out on the other side better people. We continue to ask for empathy and compassion for all as we move forward.
LET'S CELEBRATE OUR TEACHERS: As many of you know- we are not waiting to celebrate our teachers in May, but we are celebrating them all year long! Thank you so much to those who have donated already this year. Your support has helped us celebrate teachers by providing breakfast, lunch, and several treats over the past few months. We would love for you to continue to help us celebrate them! You can help by donating on www.myschoolbuck.com (look for the Teacher Appreciation Tab), or we are currently collecting small items for a Teacher Treasure Box we are trying to fill. We would like to fill it with items for our teachers/staff members! Please mark your donation with a note saying teacher treasure box. Thank you in advance for continuing to support our incredible teachers and staff!!!
Suggestions for the Teacher Treasure Box: small gift cards (subway, chick fil a, Starbucks, target), Flair pens or Sharpies, body lotion, body wash, small candles, Chapstick, travel sewing kit, travel manicure set, nail polish, gum, mints, full-sized candy bars, fun notepads- anything else that you think a teacher may like!
If you have questions, contact Candy Weatherspoon at cweatherspoon@eastwakeacademy.org.
Board Meeting: Tuesday night via ZOOM. The meeting will begin at 7:30 pm, and the ZOOM link is on the website.
YEARBOOK: Attention Senior Parents: Please purchase an ad in this year's yearbook to celebrate your graduate.
Visit www.jostensyearbooks.com
Click on "find my school" and choose East Wake Academy.
Then select "yearbook recognition ads."
A full-page is $150, and a half-page is $100
If you have any questions, please contact Dena Coward: dcoward@eastwakeacademy.org
Events for the Week of January 31 – February 4
Monday, January 31
5:30 – 6:30 pm - Varsity Cheer Practice - EH
Tuesday, February 1
4:30 pm - Girl's MS Basketball - away vs. Falls Lake Academy
6 pm - Boy's MS Basketball - away vs. Falls Lake Academy
6 pm - Women's Varsity Basketball - away vs. NCSSM
7:30 pm - Men's Varsity Basketball - away vs. NCSSM
7:30 pm - EWA Board Meeting - HS Baker Center
Wednesday, February 2
9 am - Campus Tours - Eagle Hall
12:45 pm - MASC Lunch Meeting
5:30 – 7 pm - Varsity Cheer Practice - EH
Thursday, February 3
3:45 – 5:15 pm - MASC Workday - room 207
3:45 pm – BT I Meeting - Baker Center
5:30 – 7 pm - Varsity Cheer Practice - EH
Friday, February
4:30 pm - Women's Varsity Basketball - HOME vs. Research Triangle
7:30 pm - Men's Varsity Basketball - HOME vs. Research Triangle
*Senior Night –
School-Based COVID Testing Program at EWA (OPTIONAL):
We are offering this as a service to our families to try and keep students in school.
As you may know, East Wake Academy has been approved as a State COVID testing site for our students and staff. We have partnered with MAKO Medical, the State vendor for our area.
The State has implemented a new “Test to Stay” policy. This allows us to test a student that has been in close contact with a positive case on campus. The follow is information from the NC Tool Kit (page 16) NC Tool Kit
Individuals in a mask-required school setting do NOT need to be excluded from school after a close contact, including unmasked exposures (e.g., during lunch or extracurricular activities), if they have no symptoms. Individuals with unmasked exposures in a mask required school setting should get tested on the day of notification of exposure and as close to day 5 after exposure as possible and must wear a mask in school settings. This exemption applies to in-school exposures as described above as well as non-household, out-of-school exposures. While the individual does not need to be excluded from the school setting, quarantine measures may still apply in non-school settings. If testing supply is limited, priority should be given to testing of students participating in athletics because of the higher risk of transmission in that setting.
The testing program is fully automated. Once we test the student and input the results, you will receive a message from MAKO through their COLOR system (text and email). To help us with this program, we are asking our families to complete the online registration to opt into the program.
How to access the MAKO system:
- Click on the link below - This would be the same registration you would complete if driving up to their testing site.
- You will answer basic screening questions that we have all answered at some point.
- The next section asks you to agree to their testing protocols (There are two boxes you have to check - one at the top and one at the bottom of the page). Please review the testing protocols. This site describes two different parts of the testing program: POOLED Testing and Individual Testing. We are not doing the POOLED testing with students at this time. We are only doing the individual (diagnostic) testing with students (antigen testing)
- The next section is basic demographic information. This is information on your child. The email address and phone (cell) will be where you will receive results.
- Final page is a confirmation message.
This is very basic and should take no more than 5 minutes. You will have to do it for each child. This system will help streamline our testing.
We hope you never have to be tested.
https://home.color.com/covid/sign-up/start?partner=tf-eas-611-students