Thank you for your continued support to YMCA Global Kindergarten.
Since the government has lifted the state of emergency, YGK Joey Tue-Thu class shall open school from Tuesday, June 2. As for the Joey Wed-Fri class, we shall open school as soon as we have enough students.
However, even though the state of emergency is lifted, we all know that the COVID-19 has not ended yet. It might still occur sporadically and our area is no exception.
As we have informed you previously, Joey class is a place of close contacts. Although we will take all possible measures to prevent the outbreak of the COVID-19 at YGK, we cannot keep young children apart from each other or make them wear a mask the whole day. Therefore, we cannot completely eliminate the possible surge of COVID-19 infections. We would like to ask you to make your own judgment whether to send your child to school or keep him/her home. For those who choose to stay home, we will still provide appropriate learning videos but not as often as before and there will be no online meetings anymore due to teachers’ time constraints.
Nevertheless, we are hoping for your understanding and cooperation as we create a temporary “new normal” at school to lower the risk of infection.
- We would like to ask for your cooperation as listed below.
- Daily Health Observations
・Please check your child's and your temperature every morning.
・In case you forget to check your temperature, we shall check it at drop-off time.
・If he/she has a fever higher than 37.5 ℃ or 1 ℃ higher than his/her normal temperature or shows any cold symptoms, please be advised that we cannot accept him/her in school on that day.
・If your child has had a fever within 24 hours, he/she should not come to school.
・If you have any cold symptoms, we ask you to refrain from coming to school to drop off/pick up your child.
・Your child can still come to school if you have a certificate issued from a medical institution which clarifies that your child’s respiratory symptoms are not contagious.
・In case your child shows any symptoms or becomes sick at school, please be advised that we shall contact you immediately. We ask you to come and pick him/her up as soon as possible. Please be sure to inform us of your most current emergency contact number.
・If your child has any unusual symptoms, we would like to ask for your cooperation to keep him/her at home
- At Drop-off/Pick-up Time
・Drop-off/Pick-up will be done per class at the designated time at the classroom door on the 4th floor.
・Drop-off time (9:45)
・Pick-up time（12:15 - Half Day, 14:15 - Full Day)
・Please wear a mask and keep social distances with each other. Also, please refrain from chatting while waiting.
・As for the before-school childcare, the drop-off will be done at the doorway on the 4th floor. Please ring the bell on the right up of the door upon arrival.
・We check your child’s temperature and physical condition when we take him/her in.
・Please be sure to inform a teacher if he/she has any unusual symptoms.
・To help prevent spreading a contagious disease, we keep the communications between teachers and parents as short as possible.
・We would like to ask for your cooperation in not staying in or around the YMCA after picking up/dropping off your child and leaving immediately.
- In case one is diagnosed as positive with COVID-19 or has close contact to someone who has been diagnosed with COVID-19.
・In case one of our students, parents and/or teachers are diagnosed as positive with COVID-19, we shall inform parents and related parties immediately.
・If it is a child who is diagnosed as positive or has been in close contact to someone who has been diagnosed with COVID-19, he/she is not allowed to come to school until he/she gets an official permission to come to school. If it is a parent or a guardian, he/she is asked to refrain from coming to school to drop off or pick up your child.
・If it is our teacher, we shall ask the public health care center for instructions and have him/her refrain from coming to work.
・In case you are diagnosed as positive or have been in close contact to someone who has been diagnosed with the COVID-19, you are asked to report it to us immediately.
- Precautions at school
・We shall clean and sanitize the school by wipe cleaning with GESPA, hypochlorous acid solution regularly before intaking the children, before lunch time, and after the children leave the school.
・Purifiers are set and operated in each classroom the whole day.
・We shall ventilate the classroom by operating the ventilating machine the whole day and/or by opening classroom windows once per hour.
・We shall have children wash their hands regularly, at drop-off time, after using the bathroom, after park time, before lunch, at brushing time, etc.
・Teachers and staff shall check temperatures every morning. If they have fever or any cold symptoms, they are required to stay home. If a teacher needs to be absent from work, we might have to change the staffing.
・Teachers and staff shall wear a mask in the classroom as a basic rule.
- Regarding the Class Fee
・For those who have paid the YGK Joey admission fee and monthly fee but have decided not to join the class from June, we shall reimburse this amount. It will take about 2 months to complete the reimbursement. The paid class fee can also be applied to the future class fee. Please inform us which way you would like us to proceed.
- Staffing
・Due to the number of students in class, we shall have two teachers per day for the time being. We appreciate your understanding.
Tuesday － Junko and Hatsumi
Thursday － Junko and Cora
- Regarding the full day course in June
・As we couldn’t have the adaptation period in April, we would like to have June as an adaptation period. Please understand that everyone will leave at 12:15. This is to minimize their stress as much as possible and get used to separation. The monthly fare of the full day class for June will be priced the same as the half day class. We appreciate your kind understanding.