Dear Jericho
Families,
During the
winter months, we may close certain playground structures for safety
reasons. Student safety requires us to
limit use of some apparatus. As the fall
zone protection material either freezes or is covered with ice, use of some
structures that places a student’s head over five feet above the ground may be
closed. The fall zone is defined as the area on the
ground where a child would fall off an apparatus. Most fall zone materials, either wood chips
or pea stones, will not protect a child from a critical head injury above this
height if the material is frozen or covered with ice. Decisions on the use of equipment will be
made on a daily basis. The fall zone
materials on our playground provides sufficient protection in the warmer
weather and maintenance of these materials occurs on a regular basis. This winter has provided school playgrounds
in the district with many layers of ice and hard packed snow with no possible
maintenance of materials.
The practice
began this practice on Monday, March 24th. We are hopeful that the
warm weather will be here soon and all our structures will be in regular use.
Please call
the school at 899-2772 if you have any
questions.
Sincerely,
Victoria
Graf
Principal
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