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Section 7: Sign Outs and Curfew

Leave Off campus leave will be restricted during the Fall Term. Reducing out-of-facility visits (such as home and offsite visits) will reduce the risk of virus introduction into the facility. There will be no off-campus leave for the first six weeks of school. Once we have completed this six-week “quiet life” period, the type and amount of leave will be guided by which stage of opening the City of Toronto is under at the time: ● If community infection rates are high (​ Lockdown​ ) ○ Students may be able to leave campus for urgent medical or dental appointments/emergencies and with supervision by Boarding or Health Centre staff. Road/Yonge St. venues within walking distance: Starbucks, Shoppers Drug Mart, Pusateri’s, etc. to get toiletries, snacks, supplies and for local walks around the community, with the permission of the Head of Boarding and only under the supervision of Dons, wearing masks and practising physical distancing. ● If community infection rates are low (​ Protect-Yellow, Prevent-Green​ ): ○ Students may be allowed to attend certain limited school and other off-campus activities (as approved on a case-by-case basis by the Head of Boarding) if they are wearing masks and practising physical distancing. ■ If they are unable to walk to these activities, they will need to have a family member pick them up in a private car or take an Uber or taxi (no travel on public transit is permitted during the Fall Term). ○ Other than vacation periods, students may be allowed very limited overnight leave on a case-by-case basis and only to visit their family or guardians for very special occasions, as approved by the Head of Boarding. Students will ​ not​ be allowed day, overnight or vacation leave, to spend time with their family or guardians under the following conditions: ● If​ ​ anyone in their family’s or guardian’s household, or anyone with whom a member of their family's or guardian’s household has been in close contact, has tested positive for COVID-19 or had any of the symptoms in the last 14 days prior to the anticipated arrival for leave. ● If anyone in their family’s or guardian’s household, or anyone with whom a member of their family’s or guardian’s household has been in close contact, has traveled to or had a layover in any country outside Canada in the past 14 days prior to the anticipated leave. ● If community infection rates are lower, (​ Control-Red, Restrict-Orange​ ): ○ Students may be allowed to go once per week to local Avenue

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