-Our schools and their grounds reopen July 1st. Lydell Community Center has resumed our regular summer office hours. If you plan to visit our building. The following is our entrance and exit procedure.
- All visitors need to wear cloth face coverings and sanitize their hands at the indoor wall unit located to the left of the interior Door #2 once inside.
- Visitors must enter through Door #2 (off the playground) and exit at Door #3. There will be signage posted to help guide traffic flow.
- Entrance doors will remain locked during our office hours and visitors must buzz in for entry. Only 2-3 visitors will be allowed in at a time.
- Class participants must go directly to their assigned classroom.
- Those visiting our front office will follow the foot markings upon entry to maintain a safe social distance.
- Our front desk glass will remain closed. Please wait for our staff to approach you at the window.
- Spectators or parents waiting for children to complete a class will not be allowed in our building. All parents and spectators will need to wait outside or in their vehicles.
-All programs that have a start date in June are canceled in their entirety. This includes all sections of programming that start in June and run through August (ex. Gymnastics Levels and all Day Camps). These cancellations span across all program categories including day camps, youth and adult enrichment, sport and fitness. Participants and families affected by these cancellations will receive full household credits. If you would prefer a refund please email sue.wachtl@wfbschools.com. See our revised Summer Recreation Guide COVID Edition for the most up-to-date information on summer programs. Here you will find out what's running, what's not, and what is running with modified schedules.
-The Summer Tennis Program has been revised with later start dates, consolidated location and modified for smaller group sizes. Some sections are open for registration and a new August section was created. Please see our revised Summer Recreation Guide COVID Edition or the Summer Tennis Flyer for more details.
-The Community Fitness Center was set to reopen July 6th, however, we did not have enough community members enrolled to run. Please see our Fall 2020 Guide due out in late July for Fall Community Fitness Center registration information.
- Select programs that start on or after July 6th have been modified to best mitigate risk by following our own Administrative guidance,CDC and the Northshore Health Department recommendations. Please see our revised Summer Recreation Guide COVID Edition to review what programs are still open for registration.
-Missing Summer Camp we are too! Camp-In-A-Bag, camp activities created by some of our summer camp staff, have been created and designed to include lesson plans and some supplies for at home camp activities. Bags are available for purchase and can be picked up from the Recreation Department. See Camp-In-A-Bag tab on our Program Guides and Forms tab.
-Select enrichment programs that can be moved to a virtual platform (ex. Mad Science, Afterschool Solutions) and others that are held at third party sites off school grounds (ex. Milwaukee Sailing Center, Riverwest Outdoor and Missing Links) will be offered. All New Summer Virtual programming as been created check out our Virtual Recreation Center to see the flyer of offerings.
-Virtual community activities are being offered through our Facebook site. Community scavenger hunts, BINGO, art contests and fitness videos have been shared and the community response was overwhelmingly positive. As a result, a virtual Recreation Center tab on our website is now active and we have developed All New SUMMER Virtual programming. Watch our Recreation Page at www.wfbschools.com and our Facebook site for more VL opportunities and resources!
-Connects Before and After School Program registration for the 2020-2021 school year began on April 15th and will continue throughout the summer until we reach capacity. Registrations received prior to June 30th have their registration fee waived.
-The Community Garden has reopened and volunteers times are being scheduled.The garden is actively accepting volunteer and donor applications!
-2020-2021 Lydell Preschool Families will receive their orientation packets in June and Orientation Meetings are still planning to be held in August.
-Required staff and program safety protocol have been developed in preparation for our July 1st reopening. The document is available for review on our Program Guides and Forms tab. Participants are encouraged to wear cloth face coverings when not engaged in a strenuous physical activity or when maintaining a distance of 6ft apart from others proves difficult.
The effects of COVID-19 have created a very fluid situation for most of us. Please watch our Facebook site and web page at www.wfbschools.com for continued updates. We are committed to continue to serve our Whitefish Bay community through this new landscape. Hope is not canceled!
Please contact Carin Keland, Director of Recreation and Community Education via email at carin.keland@wfbschools.com with questions or concerns.
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