Meals
Meals and snacks are provided by parents. Please send your child's lunch and snack in a lunch bag with a freezer pack. We always have extra snacks on hand if needed along with a gluten-free snack option.
Pine Village School LLC CLOSURES 2024
January 1: New Year’s Day
March 25-29
May 27: Memorial Day
June 7: Early Dismissal 1:00 Family Picnic (3-4:15)
July 4: Independence Day
August 19-30: Summer Break
September 2: Labor Day
October 4: Early Dismissal 1:00 Family Picnic (3-4:15)
November 28,29: Thanksgiving
December 16-27: Winter Break
One professional development day to be determined with thirty day notice prior to the closure.
Pine Village School LLC CLOSURES 2025
January 1: New Year’s Day
March: Spring Break ( with PPS TBA)
May 26: Memorial Day
June 6: Early Dismissal 1:00 Family Picnic (2-4:15)
July 4: Independence Day
August: Summer Break 18-29
September 1: Labor Day
October 3: Early Dismissal 1:00 Family Picnic (2-4:15)
November: Thanksgiving 27, 28
December: Winter Break 15-26
One professional development day to be determined with thirty day notice prior to the closure.
Unscheduled closures
Unscheduled closure can occur due to weather, power outages, emergency maintenance and COVID-19/ illness staff shortages that impact teacher/child ratios. We also follow Portland Public School inclement weather closures.
Diapering
We are happy to support your child during training. Pine Village School LLC provides diapers and wipes.
Communication
Parents are required to provide telephone numbers and emergency contacts. All parents are required to use our Brightwheel messaging app when their child is in care for timely daily communications and emergency alerts.
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
When an enrolled child or an employee has a suspected reportable disease, we will notify the local Board of Health or Department of Public Health and our current families.
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PARENT/GUARDIAN INITIALS
Covid Exclusion: Updates to Covid policies are sent to parents in our messaging app.
If a child tests positive for Covid 19 they will be excluded from the program to isolate for 5 days from symptom onset. They may return when they are excludable symptom free for 24 hours and when cough is resolving (not persistent and continual). They will be required to mask indoors and outdoors for an additional 5 days upon their return to school (days 6-10).
recommended. If they test negative they may return when they are symptom free from excludable symptoms.
Please keep your child up to date on their childhood vaccinations. It is required by the Multnomah County Health Department.
Excludable Symptoms:
As mandated by state law and our certification license under normal childcare rules, parents/guardians are asked to keep their children home when they have one or more of the following symptoms:
● A fever over 100.4 degree in the past 24 hours-may return when child is symptom free for 24 hours without the use of fever reducing medication
● Vomiting 48 hour exclusion
● Cough that is not well controlled
● Two diarrhea bowel movements in one day-may return when the child is symptom free for 24 hours
● Unusual color to the skin or eyes-may return when the child is symptom free or orders a doctor
● Skin or eye lesions or rashes that are severe, weeping or pus-filled, pink eye-may return when the child is symptom free or orders from a doctor
● Complaints of severe pain
● All rashes except diaper rash or heat rashes-may return when they are symptom free which means the rash is gone OR sores are dry OR orders from a doctor.
● Stiff neck headache with one or more of the symptoms above
● Difficulty in breathing abnormal wheezing
● Earache or drainage
● Listlessness or inability to participate in activities of the program. Children will be excluded if they can not participate in the program, symptoms result in a need for care that is greater than staff can provide without compromising the health and safety of other children or there is a risk of spreading communicable diseases.
Some less common diseases may require permission from the local health department to return. For example, measles, mumps ,scabies, hepatitis, chicken pox and whooping cough.
Lice- children with lice or nits will be asked to leave school upon detection, and may not return until they are nit free.