Current Information Regarding COVID 19

• If your child is at home, please contact Chandra at Newman at 617-267-4530 x110 or newmanoffice@ newmanboston.com or csingaram@newmanboston.org
• Keep your student home.
• Make a plan to get them tested, rapid testing is helpful for our response as a school. 
• Notify Michael Pool, Dean of Students, of your testing plan and timeline. mpool@newmanboston.org
• Students will need to turn in a negative Covid test or remain at home for 2 weeks before returning to Newman. Please be prepared to share your result with us for our records.
• Test Locations

Chandra will notify all of the appropriate staff.

• Your child will be isolated in our student safe room.
• We will contact you immediately and ask that you come pick your child up.
• We may ask you to pick them up behind the the school depending on the time of day.
• Newman will ask you to get your student tested for Covid as soon as possible.
• Test Locations

• Students must obtain a Covid test and provide the results to the Michael Pool, Dean of Students.
• Students will be asked to stay at home for 48 hours at a minimum, even if they receive a negative test and/or until their symptoms are gone.

According to the CDC, the symptoms of Covid 19 include:

• Fever, chills or shaking chills

• Signs of a lower respiratory illness (e.g., cough, shortness of breath, lowered oxygen saturation)

• Fatigue, sore throat, headache, body aches/myalgia, or new loss of sense of taste or smell

• Other less common symptoms can include gastrointestinal symptoms (e.g. nausea, vomiting, diarrhea), rash, and inflammatory conditions such as “COVID toes”.