Being safe at Island Meadow Arts is important; here is what being safe looks like at the studio:

Drop off and Pick up

Parents and guardians wear optional but recommended face coverings (face shield or face mask) at drop off and pick up. Parents and guardians are welcome to come into the studio. Students enjoy showing off their art work to family.
Teachers and students will wear optional but recommended face covering. Based on CDC recommendations, students under the age of 5 are not required to wear a face covering.
Outdoor activities do not require a face covering.
When possible adults maintain 6 ft of distance from others to the extent possible. Maintaining 3 ft distance is acceptable between and among students when combined with the other measures outlined in this list of safety precautions.
One family at a time in the front entry room.
Hand sanitizer will be used by anyone entering the studio parent and child. Hand sanitizer will be located in the front entry room
In the front entry there will be a Covid -19 health screening form that parents will sign when dropping off their child.

Covid Health Guidance

Stay home if your child or anyone in your home has exhibited any Covid symptoms including: chills, fever (temperature of 100.4 or higher), headache, muscle aches, runny nose, loss of taste or smell, or sore throat
Stay home if anyone in your family is sick or has been exposed to someone with Covid symptoms or Covid.
Stay home if you traveled out of state to a “hot zone” without quarantining for two weeks or presenting a negative test to Hilary.

Returning to IMA After Covid and other sickness

Any person who may have Covid or does have Covid must stay away from IMA until 10 days have passed since symptoms first appeared and at least 3 days have passed since recovery from symptoms, or with the presentation of a negative Covid test and no symptoms.

Policy for when a child gets sick at IMA

The sick child will be moved away from the other students and you will be asked to pick up your child immediately.

If a teacher gets sick

Teachers will meet all the same criteria for attending IMA as the Students.
There are no substitute teachers for classes at this point. Classes will be cancelled until the teachers is well and make up days will be given to any students who missed classes.

Teacher practice and working in the studio during Covid times

Weather permitting, the teacher will meet students outside to connect and see students' faces before we enter the studio. Weather permitting teachers and students will wait for everyone in the class to arrive before entering the studio together.
Students and Teachers will wear a face coverings in the studio. Based on CDC recommendations, students under the age of 5 are not required to wear a face covering.
Students and teachers will wash their hands using CDC protocol at the following times: On arrival to the school, before and after snacks and meals, after using the bathroom, after handling any bodily fluid and after handling any garbage.
If recommended washing isn’t available, the use of hand sanitizer which meets the standard of minimum 60% alcohol will be used.
The tables and surfaces will be disinfected before and after classes.

Please Note

Things are always changing so we will update families as our information shifts. Contact us if you have any questions or concerns.
Regardless of strict adherence to our guidelines, infectious transmission is possible.

* Everyone who comes to IMA including teachers and students and parents should be comfortable with the Covid practices we have established and must follow them 100% of the time. Anyone who is not comfortable with them should not enroll their child until the Covid threat has passed.
* Any parent who knowingly goes against the guidance listed in our practices and procedures (medicating a child to control temperature before school, sending a
child who has been exposed to sick people, etc.) will no longer be able to come to IMA from that time forward. In this case tuition will not be refunded.