To protect our School community, we are asking all visitors to complete the following questionnaire.

If you answered yes to any of these questions, please consult your physician and reschedule your appointment with us.

In the past 14 days, have you:

1. Traveled to Connecticut  from any international countries or other regions listed on the CDC and CT.gov website.
   1. After International Travel
   2. Domestic Travel During COVID-19
2. Been in contact with a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infected person?
3. Have you had the following symptoms:
   1. Body aches and/or chills
   2. Loss of appetite
   3. New loss of taste or smell
   4. Fever of 100.0 or higher
   5. Significant fatigue (tired, exhausted)
   6. Painful breathing
   7. Shortness of breath
   8. Chest congestion, frequent, harsh cough
   9. New diarrhea, vomiting or nausea
   10. New onset of headache not related to a chronic illness
   11. Significant Sore throat (not related to a chronic allergy)

COVID Screening for Parents to check students at home

To protect our School community, we are asking all parents to complete the following questionnaire daily prior to sending your child to school.

In the past 14 days, has your child:

1. Been in contact with a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infected person in the last 14 days? 
2. Has your child traveled or lived in an area with travel restrictions as noted below? 

• Travel in or out of Connecticut and my child has not traveled to any other country which requires a 14-day self-quarantine by the CDC.
• Returning from International Travel
• Considerations for Travelers—Coronavirus in the US

If you answered yes to questions 1 or 2, please keep your child home and contact your physician and school nurse as soon as possible. 

3. Has your child had one or more of the following symptoms in the last 14 days:

• Fever of 100.0 or higher-your child needs to stay home even if this is their only symptom.
• Body aches and/or chills
• Significant fatigue (tired, exhausted)
• New loss of taste or smell
• Sore throat
• Loss of appetite
• Painful breathing, frequent, harsh cough
• Nasal or chest congestion
• Headache
• Shortness of breath (for a student with chronic allergy/asthmatic cough, a change in baseline)
• Abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting not related to a chronic condition
• Unexplained/undiagnosed rash

If you answered yes to any of these questions, please keep your child home and consult your physician and notify the school nurse as soon as possible.

Parents shall:

• Check their child daily before sending him/her to school.
• Keep their child home for a fever of greater than 100.00
• Keep their child out of school for at least 10 days after symptoms began if COVID is suspected or symptoms of COVID are suspect. Call your physician and discuss if testing is recommended. If your doctor recommends testing, the acceptable type of testing to return to school prior to the 10-day self-isolation is a negative PCR-viral test or a NAAT-viral test. Please provide the results to the school nurse prior to sending your child back to school. 
• Symptoms must improve prior to returning to school. Your child must be fever-free for 24 hours without fever-reducing medications and other symptoms must be resolving. 
• Get a doctor’s note for an excluded/sick child to return to school for any non-COVID illness such as a bacterial infection with a medical diagnosis and confirmation that the illness is not COVID related from the MD.
• Either pick their child up in a timely manner or designate an emergency contact to do so if it is determined that the child has a fever or other symptoms of COVID.
• Call the school nurse if your child is kept home for any of the above symptoms so you can discuss how long your child needs to stay home.

Students and staff should stay home if they are not feeling well.

You must be in contact with your School Nurse when you or your child is out sick and prior to returning to school. If one child is home sick and other household members are not sick, they need not stay home unless they develop symptoms or you are instructed by the DPH, School Nurse or your child’s physician to keep them home.

All required documentation must be submitted to the School Nurse prior to your child returning to school. Please bring this note with you to your doctor to confirm NPS protocol for return to school requirements.

Positive individuals must isolate for at least 5 days (return on day 6) from the date of exposure, positive test or onset of symptoms (based on the individual circumstance). Day one begins the day after exposure, positive test or onset of symptoms.

Exception: Any Pre-K students who test positive should quarantine for 10 days, return on day 11 with or without testing if symptoms are improving.

Students may not return to interscholastic athletics until cleared by the athletic department. We are awaiting further guidance from DPH and CIAC for athletics. Until then, we will continue to follow the existing guidelines for athletics.

Covid-19 Vaccines are always free regardless of insurance status.

• Everyone 6 months of age and older is now eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccination.
• Everyone ages 18 and older should get a booster shot.

For information on Covid-19 vaccines, visit Your COVID-19 Vaccination on the CDC website.

For information booster shots, visit the COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Shots on the CDC website. 

Vaccination Clinic hours and locations change frequently. Different vaccine brands (Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson) are often available on different days. 

Please check the clinic's websites or call for the the most up-to-date information. 

This list was updated June 21, 2022.

Naugatuck Public Schools is poised to receive $7,990,325 in ARP grant funding to be expended over the next two school years.  The CT State Department of Education has created five Priority Areas for school districts to consider when determining the allocation of funding.  The graphic below highlights Naugatuck’s initial plans for funding ESSER II and ARP priorities in each of the designated areas of the grants.  The initial plans for funding were based on a comprehensive needs assessment conducted by administration in the spring of 2021.  

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The 5 CSDE Priorities & NPS's Initial Planned Use of Funds

Learning Acceleration, Academic Renewal, and Student Enrichment

Academic supports to accelerate learning and facilitate recovery including expanded Summer School, Kindergarten Transition Academy, Extended Day Programs (before, during and after school time), Curriculum Development and Revision to Support Acceleration of Learning and Cultural Responsiveness, Professional Learning to Support academic recovery, additional classroom teachers for class size.

Social, Emotional, and Mental Health of the Students and of the School Staff

Additional behavioral and mental health services delivered in-person or via remote/ telehealth access and social and emotional support mechanisms. This includes partnering with several community support agencies, increasing support staff to provide additional social, emotional, and mental health needs in school, and implementing a new mental health and well-being program at NHS.

Family and Community Connections

Direct engagement with families and the community, as well as opportunities to increase initiatives that engage school, family and community connections. This includes funding for Parent Engagement Activities and Family Outreach, Funding support for PLTI, Parent Leadership Training Institute, Partner with a consultant to improve engagement practices.

Strategic Use of Technology

Maintain or upgrade access to technology and connectivity.  Replacement of damaged, lost, or end of life Chromebooks to ensure each student is provided with a district Chromebook, Additional IT staff member to support expanded technology, Audit usage of existing software, professional learning to support effective data analysis.

Building Safe and Healthy Schools

Through a continued emphasis on public health safety measures and to support the physical health and safety of our students and staff, provide  isolation monitors and personal protective equipment and supplies for each school, additional training and health related professional learning for nurses, and improve ventilation and facilities.

Student and Parent Videos for COVID-19

Parent videos

• How to talk to your kids about COVID-19

All 3rd-12th graders and Parents to watch together

• Hand Hygiene and applying and removing a face mask
• CDC: hand washing guidelines 
• CDC: Stop the spread of germs
• How to apply a mask safely and correctly  

Student videos for Pre-K

• Social Distancing  
• What is COVID-19?
• Hand washing for Grades Pre-K-3

Student Videos for Grades K-2

• handwashing Elmo    

• handwashing Happy Hands   
• what is COVID-19 
• Social Distancing 

Student Videos for Grades 3-6

• Wash your hands with DJ Kahlid 

• what is COVID-19 
• Social Distancing | Meet the Helpers 

Student Videos for Grades 7-12

• What Kids want to know about COVID-19 

• WHO’s link to information about COVID-19  
• Wash your hands with DJ Kahlid 
• Social Distancing  
• Mask wearing and care, social distancing, and hand washing

Health Websites

• CDC Guidelines for Handwashing