This morning Pleasant Hope Elementary School was notified of 3 new positive COVID-19 exposures within PHES. The positive cases are all staff members at PHES. Please join us in wishing them a quick and speedy recovery. The staff members were on campus and considered contagious during the day of September 16th, 17th, and 18th.
At the direction of the Polk County Health Department all students and employees who were exposed directly to the individual who tested positive for COVID 19 are being contacted by the Polk County Health Department. Those needing to isolate and self quarantine to help stop the spread have been notified by Pleasant Hope Elementary School. If you did not receive a phone call about this situation, no action is needed on your part.
As a reminder, exposure notifications will be distributed each day (and at the completion of the weekends) if there are positive cases within the elementary school moving forward. We want to remind students and parents that we are required to follow the guidelines of the CDC and Polk County Health Departments in regards to isolation and quarantine to help stop the spread of the virus. So far PHES has had 1 positive student and 4 positive staff members.
Pleasant Hope Volleyball game at Bradleyville today has been cancelled and the Volleyball game on Thursday, Sept. 24th is postponed until Oct. 5th at home.
Cross Country at Stockton tomorrow Sept. 22nd is also cancelled.
Reminder: Each teacher at Pleasant Hope Elementary has taken a survey of hotspots needed. This information has been sent to the elementary office. If your family requested a hotspot you may pick it up TODAY Monday, September 21st from 8:00am-11:30am at the elementary office. Preschool bags will also be handed out at this time.
Here is link for virtual learner families. If this does not work on your phone email me at klowe@phr6.org with the family name and number of kids and I will put you in. Be safe.
https://forms.gle/Md6gxyMewibTowok6
Each teacher at Pleasant Hope Elementary has taken a survey of hotspots needed. This information has been sent to the elementary office. If your family requested a hotspot you may pick it up TOMORROW Monday, September 21st from 8:00am-11:30am at the elementary office. Preschool bags will also be handed out at this time.
PHHS Volleyball 2nd place Thomas Jefferson Tournament
2-2-1 on the day, great work
Great job lady pirates
Pleasant Hope Volleyball in Action today at Thomas Jefferson Tourney in Joplin
Pleasant Hope Football in action tonight against Liberal
We are going to try and live stream the Pleasant Hope Pirates football game this evening. Please use the following link to join us! https://www.facebook.com/101334425064369/live/
Pleasant Hope Elementary has 7 teachers quarantined today. One teacher has tested positive for COVID 19. The entire Elementary will be on virtual learning for the next 2 weeks. Elementary students will return to school October 6th. This is elementary only!
The Elementary Picture Day will be rescheduled for October 15th.
Homecoming Parade held today in Pleasant Hope.
This morning Pleasant Hope Elementary School was notified of a new positive COVID-19 exposure within PHES. The positive case is a teacher at PHES. Please join us in wishing them a quick and speedy recovery. The teacher was on campus and considered contagious during the day of September 14th and 15th.
At the direction of the Polk County Health Department all students and employees who were exposed directly to the individual who tested positive for COVID 19 are being contacted by the Polk County Health Department. Those needing to isolate and self quarantine to help stop the spread have been notified by Pleasant Hope Elementary School and have been picked up from school, the teachers who were exposed were not present today. If you did not receive a phone call about this situation, no action is needed on your part.
Due to several teachers being exposed, the Pleasant Hope ELEMENTARY School Prek-4th Grade will be teaching/ learning virtually starting September 22-25 and September 29th-October 2nd (8 school days). At this time we plan on returning October 6th to seated instruction. Students are bringing home all virtual materials needed today. Your child's classroom teacher will email you with instructions for his/her virtual learning. We are taking a proactive approach and trying to act quickly to stop the spread. Our district, like all others, has a shortage of subs and does not have subs to cover these classes. PHES currently has 2 positive cases, with 9 students and 6 teachers who have been asked to quarantine.
As a reminder, exposure notifications will be distributed each day (and at the completion of the weekends) if there are positive cases within the elementary school moving forward. We want to remind students and parents that we are required to follow the guidelines of the CDC and Polk County Health Departments in regards to isolation and quarantine to help stop the spread of the virus.
Middle school football defeats Ash Grove 20-6!
Pleasant Hope Volleyball falls to Chadwick in 5 sets
PH 25 Chadwick 20
PH 24 Chadwick 26
PH 25 Chadwick 19
PH 26 Chadwick 24
PH 14 Chadwick 16
Pleasant Hope Homecoming Parade will be held tomorrow at 2:00pm. Homecoming Coronation is postponed until a later date to accommodate quarantined high school students to allow them to be a part of the coronation.
Due to recent quarantines or other quarantines at different schools the following athletic adjustments are being made with our athletic teams.
VOLLEYBALL
Sept. 21st @ Bradleyville - this game will replace the School of the Ozarks game since they have cancelled all fall sports due to COVID-19
Sept 24th contest vs. Lockwood has been moved to Monday, October 5th at Pleasant Hope Middle School with a 5:30pm start.
FOOTBALL
The Sept. 18th 11-man football contest vs. Sarcoxie has been replaced with an 8 man football game on Friday, Sept. 18th vs. Liberal with a 7:00pm kickoff here at home.
This morning Pleasant Hope Elementary School was notified of a new positive COVID-19 exposure within Pleasant Hope Elementary School. The positive case is a student at PHES. Please join us in wishing them a quick and speedy recovery. The student was on campus and considered contagious during the day of September 15th .
At the direction of the Polk County Health Department all students and employees who were exposed directly to the individual who tested positive for COVID 19 are being contacted by the Polk County Health Department. Those needing to isolate and self quarantine to help stop the spread have been notified by Pleasant Hope Elementary School and have been picked up from school. If you do not receive a phone call about this situation, no action is needed on your part.
As a reminder, exposure notifications will be distributed each day (and at the completion of the weekends) if there are positive cases within the elementary school moving forward. We want to remind students and parents that we are required to follow the guidelines of the CDC and Polk County Health Departments in regards to isolation and quarantine to help stop the spread of the virus. We encourage you to continue to do your part to keep everyone safe. We want to keep school moving forward as best we can and do our best to keep our school environment safe.