McLean County

Unit District No. 5

Educating each student to achieve personal excellence.

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    UNIT 5 CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 PRECAUTION

    Unit 5 continues to closely monitor and plan for the rapidly changing Coronavirus/COVID-19 health issue in Illinois and the US.

    As of November 17, there are 6,886 CASES OF COVID-19 in McLean County. 

    Please check out the Unit 5 COVID Response Page.

    Here is a link to the McLean County Health Department

     

  • SCHOOL HOURS

    Elementary: 7:45 a.m. – 2:10 p.m.

    High Schools:  8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

    Junior High:  8:45 a.m. – 3:45 p.m.

    Early Childhood:  7:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. - AM CLASS

    Early Childhood: 11:45 am - 2:15 pm - PM CLASS

Announcements

  • PAUSE OF IN-PERSON INSTRUCTION

    Effective Wednesday, Nov. 18, Unit 5 is making the difficult decision to transition to remote learning for ALL students. Students will not be in attendance on Wednesday, Nov. 18 to allow teachers and staff time to prepare for this change. At this time a pause to in-person instruction will be in place until Monday, Dec. 7. 

    In the past two weeks we’ve had  63+ student positive COVID cases and 28+ staff positive COVID cases. In addition, we had 373+ students who were newly quarantined as a result of being a close contact, in addition to 145+ staff members. When we started this process, we stated that we needed to be in a phase for 10 days before making a change. Today the IDPH released metrics for last week, November 1-7.  These metrics fall within Stage 1 of our Return to School Plan, which indicates that all students would be remote. We have closely monitored this week’s metrics and it is clear that they have not improved.  We now have more than 10 consecutive days of data that no longer supports us remaining in hybrid instruction. Here is a link to local and district metrics. Since we are in Stage 1, this will also include a pause of all activities & athletics.

    We hope to be able to return to hybrid learning very soon but this will depend on the status of COVID-19 and the guidance we receive from state and local officials.  

     
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  • PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES
    With the switch to hybrid this month, a decision was made to reschedule Parent Teacher Teacher Conferences to Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. Students will not attend school that day. PTC
    As a result of this change, students WILL be in session on Friday, Oct. 23.
    Also, just a reminder that the State of Illinois is celebrating Election Day as a state holiday. Schools will be closed that day. 
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  • REMOTE LEARNING PLAN

    Unit 5 has determined that students will begin the 2020-21 school year with Remote Learning.

    Here is a LINK to the Remote Learning Plan and other important back to school information. 

     
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  • GRAB AND GO MEALS

    Unit 5 will provide grab-and-go breakfast and lunch to any student in need at several locations in the community using school buses on Wednesdays.

    Meals will continue to be free of charge for the 2020 - 2021 school year.   

    This is open to students in both the hybrid and remote-learning programs. Hybrid students will receive three days of food and remote students will receive five days of food.


    We will have three locations open Wednesday from 10:30-1:30 am:

    ● Sugar Creek Elementary
    ● Cedar Ridge Elementary
    ● Normal West High School

    Here is a link to the  schedule with drop off locations in the community.

    Distribution reminders:

    - Please maintain social distancing when picking up meals.
    - Parents, guardians, and students can pick up the meals.
    - Anyone feeling ill or experiencing COVID-19 symptoms should not attend pickup.

     

     
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  • NEW 9th GRADE DENTAL MANDATES

    There is a new mandate for a 9th grade dental exam.  

      • All Illinois children in kindergarten, Grade 2, Grade 6, and Grade 9 are required to have an oral health examination. 
      • Examinations must be performed by a licensed dentist, and he/she must sign the Proof of School Dental Examination form. 
      • Each child is required to present proof of examination by a dentist prior to May 15 of the school year. 
     • School dental examinations must have been completed within the 18 months prior to the May 15 deadline.
    CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
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  • CHECK OUT UNIT 5's PINTEREST SITEpinterest

    Unit 5 is on Pinterest. The social media site provides a variety of resources for parents and students on wide ranging topics. Pinterest is a virtual bulletin board allowing Unit 5 to organize and share items. We create themed boards (for example, “our Schools”), collect images and content from the web, and “pin” those items on the board.So if you are a pinner, start pinning some of our items on your boards!  http://pinterest.com/unit5schools/
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