We are eagerly awaiting the start of school! What’s exciting us is the return of this community and in-person events, albeit modified, so each one of us feels the connection to our school community. Inside classrooms, along with continuing five-day in-person instruction at the Downtown, Merle-Smith, and Swain School Campuses, we’re excited to restore the collaborative learning spaces and unique hands-on lessons that are the hallmark of our school and that we missed too often last year. Classrooms will once again be arranged for movement and teamwork, and students will move from room to room for specials. 

The health & safety guide that makes all this possible is linked below. Our guide represents the essential information that Moravian Academy community members, including all students, families, and employees, need to know for a successful, healthy school year during the continued COVID-19 pandemic. As we did last year, we plan to begin the school year with a conservative, safe approach to our COVID-19 mitigation efforts. These plans are designed to tell you how protocols will change as conditions change, which is represented in a tiered system of protocols based on health conditions in the region and at your specific campus. Our Health and Safety Committee continues to receive individual consulting from St. Luke’s Infectious Disease experts, and we have based these overall health & safety policy decisions on the guiding considerations provided to us from CHOP’s Policy Lab Guidance for In-Person Education in K-12 Settings published July 2021.

We learned a lot last year and we plan to be responsive to what is reasonable and healthy based on the age of the student. That is why we are making plans at the campus and grade level rather than the all-school level. We continue to rely on our dedicated faculty and particularly their ingenuity and creativity to meet the learning needs of every student.