Return to school letters (COVID-19)

• Letter to principals: Reasons why someone wears a mask (April 2022, PDF)
• Letter to parents: Reasons why someone wears a mask (April 2022, PDF)
• Letter to Directors of Education: COVID-19 Protection Measures (February 7, PDF)
• School and Child Care Supports for COVID-19 (January 16, 2022, PDF)
• COVID-19 Return to In-Person Learning Reminders and Updates (January 16, 2022, PDF)
• School-based COVID-19 vaccine clinics for children aged 5- to 11 (November 29, 2021, PDF)
• Letter to Directors of Education: Medical Officer of Health Recommendations for Enhanced COVID-19 Protection Measures (November 26, 2021, PDF)
• Letter to parents (November 24, 2021, PDF 251 KB) Student Rapid Antigen Screening for elementary students
• Letter to parents (November 24, 2021, PDF 250 KB) Student Rapid Antigen Screening for secondary students
• Letter to parents (PDF 730 KB) from the Medical Officer of Health advising to stay home and seek testing at the first sign of a COVID-19 symptom, even a mild one.
• Fact Sheet: School-based COVID-19 vaccination clinics (PDF, 836 KB) Parent/guardian letter and consent form for September and October 2021 school-based COVID-19 vaccine clinics
• Letter to parents/guardians/members of our school community – Re: Back-to-school and COVID-19 vaccination (218 KB) Let’s get kids back to class safely by making it a two-dose summer!
• Letter to parents and families (PDF, 537 KB) from the Medical Officer of Health and Directors of Education to highlight the important COVID-19 clinics specially organized for youth aged 12 and up at the time of immunization, June 1, 2021
• Read Dr. Penny Sutcliffe, Medical Officer of Health with Public Health Sudbury & Districts’, response (May 28, 2021, PDF, 732 KB) to Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s open letter on the question of a return to in-person learning in Ontario. Available in English only.
• Visit alphaweb.org/page/alPHa_Letters to read the response (PDF, 174.62 KB) to Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s open letter on the question of a return to in-person learning in Ontario, signed by the Council of Ontario Medical Officers of Health (on behalf of all Medical Officers of Health), Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario-Ottawa Children’s Treatment Centre, The Hospital for Sick Children, Children’s Mental Health Ontario, McMaster Children’s Hospital, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Children’s Hospital – LHSC, Ontario Medical Association, Empowered Kids Ontario, and the Pediatricians Alliance of Ontario. Available in English only.
• Letter of Instruction from the Medical Officer of Health on in-person Learning (PDF, 780 KB), March 11, 2021.
• Letter to parents and families (PDF, 389 KB) from the Medical Officer of Health and Directors of Education about updated symptom screening tool and isolation requirements, February 22, 2021.
• Letter to parents and families (PDF, 238 KB) from the Medical Officer of Health and Directors of Education to express support for the essential priority of safe in-person learning as stated in the letter from the Council of Ontario Medical Officers of Health (PDF, 201 KB), February 3, 2021.
• Letter to parents and families (PDF, 218 KB) from the Medical Officer of Health and Directors of Education reminding families to be COVID-safe during the winter break, December 9, 2020.
• Letter to parents and families (PDF, 108 KB) from the Medical Officer of Health and Directors of Education to reaffirm our commitment to COVID-safe schools, November 20, 2020.
• Public Health reporting practices for confirmed cases and outbreaks of COVID-19 in school settings, September 11, 2020.
• Public Health Sudbury & Districts—all hands on deck to support a COVID-safe return to school, September 4, 2020.
• Top 10 COVID-19 Basic Rules for Safe Schools. Directors of Education and Medical Officers of Health from across Northern Ontario stand united to deliver on COVID-safe schools, September 2, 2020.
• Statement from the Medical Officer of Health on the fall 2020 return to school, August 14, 2020.

This item was last modified on April 11, 2022