Hornby Recreation is following all provincial guidelines regarding covid19. The safety of our community is our number one priority. Please see below our covid19 procedures and protocols. 

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Policies and Procedures: Hornby Recreation 2020/2021
Hornby Recreation programming will take place outside and under shade tents in various locations on island. We will also utilize our access to the school field and school grounds. Staff and children will not be able to access the school building. There is a porta-potty located behind the Community Hall we can access if needed and washrooms at Joe King Ball park if needed.

All parents will be asked to sign a form stating that they are in agreement with the program procedures.
  1. Assessment and symptoms displayed during program
  2. All parents will be asked to assess their children daily before sending them to summer programs to ensure they do not come to program if they are sick or showing symptoms.
  3. Upon arrival to the program parents will need to answer screening questions, if any questions are answered negatively the child will not be able to attend program. (Please see Appendix A)
  4. If a child exhibits symptoms during a program, their caregivers will be asked to pick them up immediately. Children who have symptoms will be provided with disposable mask and brought to designated area until they can be picked up. Staff will if possible, maintain a distance of 2 meters from the sick child and wear a disposable mask. The area will be disinfected by staff once the child has left.
  5. Staff must assess themselves daily for symptoms of common cold, influenza or COVID-19. If staff display symptoms or have been in close contact with someone with a suspected or probable case of COVID-19 they will not attend work.
  6. If staff starts to exhibit symptoms during program they will go home.
  7. Any child who exhibits behavior that is not conducive to “no contact” and adolescents that do not comply with physical distancing measures of 2 meter may be asked to not attend program.
 
Sign in and pick up
  1. Parents will be asked to bring their child in person to the program. No drop offs. They will be asked to remain social distanced of 2 meters apart from other participants and wait until they have spoken with the Instructor, Recreation Coordinator or Recreation Assistant and the child is signed in.
  2. Staff will ask parents the screening questions and if all answers are negative the child can join the second staff person.
  3. When children are picked up parents will be asked to remain social distancing of two meters apart and connect with staff by making eye contact and speaking to them before leaving.
  4. When picking up a group of children from the school, staff will be masked while on school property. If a child does not go to school that day because of cold/flu symptoms they are un able to join the program afterschool on that day.
 
Maintaining sanitation
  1. All staff will always carry on them hand sanitizer
  2. All children will be asked to carry hand sanitizer on their own person if they are unable to use the sanitizer provided.
  3. All staff will carry personal masks on them, as well as extras, if needed. Instructors will wear masks if not able to physically distance.
  4. All staff will carry several pairs of disposable gloves and will choose when to wear them.
  5. All staff will wash or sanitize their hands upon arrival to program and continuously throughout the day.
  6. Children will be asked to wash or sanitize their hands upon arrival at program, before snack, before lunch and before and after accessing the playground or other shared equipment.
  7. No one will share food, drink, tools or supplies.
  8. Staff and children must use good respiratory etiquette such as coughing and sneezing into their sleeve or a tissue and to properly dispose of used tissue or paper towels.

 Physical distancing
  1. All our programs activities will take place outside and under shade tents.
  2. Adults and adolescents must maintain Physical Distancing, remaining a minimum of 2 meters apart. Where 2 meters distancing cannot be maintained adults and adolescents must wear mask.
  3. For young children physical distance is less practical and the focus will be on minimizing physical contact.
  4. When in shade tents and snack time students will be spaced out to ensure that there is ample space between them.
  5. Where close personal care is required, such as First Aid, staff will wear their provided mask and sanitize their hands and use gloves.

Cleaning
  1. All staff implements ongoing, informal cleaning/disinfection of high touch surfaces. Spray bottles with disinfectant and paper towels will be provided.
  2. At the end of each shade tents and high touch surfaces will be cleaned/disinfected.
  3. Supplies of soap, disinfectant, paper towel, hand sanitizer and other cleaning supplies will be reviewed daily at the end of programs to ensure a continual supply.
 
Training and education
  1. All staff will review this document and all periodic updates as distributed by the Recreation Coordinator
  2. Staff and Rec. Coordinator will meet weekly to have the opportunity to identify potential unhealthy or unsafe situations.
 
Equipment
  1. Pump bottles of hand sanitizer, tissue and waste paper basket will be located in the shade tents. Young children should only use hand sanitizer with adult supervision.
  2.  First aid kit will be located in shade tents and staff will carry it with them if the program leaves the site.
 
Contact-less games and activities
  1. All off our games and activities have been altered so that they do not include close contact.
  2. Each child will be supplied with their own box where they can keep their craft supplies and toys. Sharing of personal craft supplies and toys will not be allowed.
  3. Staff will identify and label all toys and craft supplies that require daily disinfection. These items will be disinfected daily, at the end of programs.
Food
  1. No one will share food.
  2. If snacks are provided by staff exterior packaging will be disinfected with alcohol-based hand sanitizer 10 minutes before being shared. Fruit and vegetables will not be served as we do not have the amenities to safely wash and prepare them.

 Volunteers
  1. Volunteers will need to conduct daily health checks before arriving at program and cannot come to program if they have had close contact with someone with a suspected or probable case of COVID-19 if they or anyone in their household have the following symptoms.
  • Fever
  • Cough
  • Congestion
  • Nasal Drip
  • Sneezing
  1. Volunteers must thoroughly wash hands upon arrival at program.
  2. Volunteers must use good respiratory etiquette such as coughing and sneezing into your sleeve or a tissue and to properly dispose of used tissue or paper towels.
  3. Volunteers must observe physical distancing requirements.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Appendix A
Covid-19 Screening Tool - to be addressed each day prior to entry.
Yes  or No In the past 14 days:

Have you or your child had a Fever (>38 degrees)?
Note: It is expected that parents take the temperature each morning prior to arrival at the program.
Have you or your child had a cough or breathing difficulty?
Have you or your child experienced influenza-like illness (i.e. a combination of cough, sore throat, nasal congestion, headache, body aches & fatigue)?
Outside of Essential Service Work, have you or your child had close contact with someone with a suspected or probable case of COVID-19?
(close contact meaning having cared for, lived with, or had face to face contact or having had direct contact with respiratory secretions and or body fluids)
  1. If the answer is ‘yes’ to any of the above questions, the family must advise the staff and access will be denied. Please speak to staff for further direction and support.
  2. ** All students and staff who have symptoms of COVID-19 OR travelled outside Canada in the last 14 days OR were identified as a close contact of a confirmed case or outbreak must stay home and self-isolate for 14 days, including children of essential service workers who are ill.