Athletics and School Activities  

Liturgy

School Masses will be live-streamed for each class so that large group, in-person gatherings are avoided.  

Sacraments will be conducted in the church with social distancing protocols and contact tracing methods in place. 

Faith Formation

St. Kateri Parish Families are being surveyed to determine in-person or remote classes for the 2020-2021 school year.  If in-person classes occur, the Faith Formation staff will be required to follow social distancing for children and staff, and cleaning protocols after the use of the classrooms or other school spaces.  Consideration will also be given to using other spaces on campus not being used by the school.

Extracurriculars

St. Kateri Parish CYO Basketball Program is suspended.  

After-School clubs are cancelled until January 2020.  If safe after that date, we will consider opening up After-School clubs such as the Scrapbooking Club and Chess Club.  

Childcare

St. Kateri Tekakwitha Parish School will open their Before Care and After School programs (ASP) on Monday, September 14, 2020.  Although groups will be different from the cohorts children are in from 8:00 to 3:00, every effort will be made to minimize the mingling of students from different cohorts.  

Before Care: As feasible, children in Nursery, PreK, and Kindergarten will be grouped according to their classroom cohort.  Students in Grades 1 – 5 will be socially distanced in the school gym. 

After-Care: Our after-care groups will use the following guidelines to create ASP cohorts:

• As feasible, children will remain with the cohort they were with at the beginning of the day.
• If groups need to be combined, we will use OCFS guidelines for creating mixed-age groups with a priority of placing siblings together.
• If feasible, the After-Care program will operate in their own dedicated space. 
• After-Care spaces will be cleaned/disinfected prior to use and before and after snack.
• All students will wash hands prior to entering a new space.  
• Snack will be provided by the North Colonie School District Food and Nutrition Department or parents/family may provide their child with a snack from home.  
• Snack will be brought to the ASP classroom.  
• Children will wear masks unless socially distanced or using an individualized safety divider.  
• After-Care students from the Niskayuna Schools will have a health check prior to being allowed into their classroom. As feasible, they will remain as their own cohort.   

Interscholastic Athletics

As an early childhood and elementary school, we do not participate in interscholastic athletics.

St. Kateri Parish CYO Basketball Program is suspended.