Summer Camp Safety Protocols
Step 1: Prepare for class
Please have your dancer use the restroom and wash their hands before heading to the studio. Do not bring your dancer if they have a fever above 100 degrees, or are otherwise sick or complaining that they don’t feel well. Be sure to gather their lunch and LABELED water bottle. Please note — Packed lunches must use all disposable items (no reusable lunchboxes, Tupperware or metal utensils, etc.) All water bottles must be spill proof and have your child’s name clearly and visibly written on the outside. Anything left at the studio will be thrown out as we no longer have a lost and found. Dancers must bring their own shoes - we no longer have a shoe borrow bin.
Step 2: Dancer Drop-Off
When you arrive, please wear a mask and socially distance yourself from others as you wait with your child outside of the studio. We will call their name one at a time. Masks will be worn when entering/exiting the studio, not while children are actively dancing. Staff will wear masks at drop-off and pick-up and whenever they are within 6 feet of a child.
Step 3: Entering the Studio
Before entering the lobby, we will perform a temperature check using a no-touch thermometer and provide hand sanitizer.
Step 4: Dance!
Studios will be marked and taped to maintain 6 feet of social distancing while dancing. If dancers touch their face, cough or sneeze they will be sent to wash their hands. All surfaces will be disinfected throughout the day.
Step 5: Craft Time for Mini Camp
Each child will have their own craft bag including crayons, stickers, coloring pages, etc that only they will use. Tables will be wiped with an antibacterial wipe after each use.
Step 6: Pick-Up
Dancers will be released one at a time to a parent or caregiver and hand sanitizer will be applied as dancers exit to lobby. Dancers, parents and staff will wear their masks during pickup.
Please have your dancer use the restroom and wash their hands before heading to the studio. Do not bring your dancer if they have a fever above 100 degrees, or are otherwise sick or complaining that they don’t feel well. Be sure to gather their lunch and LABELED water bottle. Please note — Packed lunches must use all disposable items (no reusable lunchboxes, Tupperware or metal utensils, etc.) All water bottles must be spill proof and have your child’s name clearly and visibly written on the outside. Anything left at the studio will be thrown out as we no longer have a lost and found. Dancers must bring their own shoes - we no longer have a shoe borrow bin.
Step 2: Dancer Drop-Off
When you arrive, please wear a mask and socially distance yourself from others as you wait with your child outside of the studio. We will call their name one at a time. Masks will be worn when entering/exiting the studio, not while children are actively dancing. Staff will wear masks at drop-off and pick-up and whenever they are within 6 feet of a child.
Step 3: Entering the Studio
Before entering the lobby, we will perform a temperature check using a no-touch thermometer and provide hand sanitizer.
Step 4: Dance!
Studios will be marked and taped to maintain 6 feet of social distancing while dancing. If dancers touch their face, cough or sneeze they will be sent to wash their hands. All surfaces will be disinfected throughout the day.
Step 5: Craft Time for Mini Camp
Each child will have their own craft bag including crayons, stickers, coloring pages, etc that only they will use. Tables will be wiped with an antibacterial wipe after each use.
Step 6: Pick-Up
Dancers will be released one at a time to a parent or caregiver and hand sanitizer will be applied as dancers exit to lobby. Dancers, parents and staff will wear their masks during pickup.
Protégé Performing Arts Site-Specific COVID-19 Prevention Plan
The following assessment and measures will be taken prior to/during studio operations to prevent the spread of the virus COVID-19:
1. Promoting Healthy Hygiene Practices
2. Intensified Cleaning, Disinfection, and Ventilation
3. Implementing Distance - Arrival and Departure
4. Limit Sharing
5. Training Staff and Families
6. Checking for Signs and Symptoms
1. Promoting Healthy Hygiene Practices
- Staff, dancers, and families should stay home if feeling sick and should only return when their symptoms have subsided. Anyone who has been in close contact with a person with COVID-19 should stay home.
- The studio will be equipped with soap, tissues, no-touch trashcans, and hand sanitizer.
- Staff will use face coverings when within 6 feet of a dancer and during drop-off and pickup. Face coverings will be required for dancers upon arrival and departure, but may be removed during class time.
- Staff and dancers will wash hands after dance class, before/after lunch, after coughing or sneezing, and before/after using the restroom. Our staff will teach and reinforce dancers to avoid contact with their eyes, nose, and mouth, as well as covering coughs and sneezes.
- When washing hands, dancers and staff should wash for 20 seconds with soap and water.
- Hand sanitizer will be available throughout the studio for frequent use between classes.
2. Intensified Cleaning, Disinfection, and Ventilation
- Staff will clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces throughout the day.
- Frequently touched surfaces include but are not limited to: door handles, light switches, sink handles, bathroom surfaces, tables, and ballet barres
- For the time being, the use of shared prop items and equipment will be limited. If used, they will be disinfected between uses.
- We have taped our studio floors to ensure staff and dancers will remain at least 6 feet apart.
- Restrooms will be disinfected multiple time throughout the day, or at least once per hour.
- Hand washing signage will be posted in each restroom.
3. Implementing Distance - Arrival and Departure
- Upon drop-off and pickup, students and families will wait outside while practicing social distancing. A staff member will invite students in one at a time, allowing for hand sanitation and temperature check (no-touch). If a temperature is greater than 100 degrees that person will be asked to return home.
- Students must wear face coverings upon entering the studio.
- Families and visitors must wear face coverings for the entire time they are on the premises at Protégé.
- Signage will be posted throughout the studio reminding everyone to wear face masks and practice social distancing.
- Dancers will remain in the same studio and groups as consistently as possible.
- Teachers will remain in one studio throughout the day.
4. Limit Sharing
- All personal belongings will remain separate. Please have your child's items labeled with their name.
- Staff will remind children to avoid sharing items with classmates.
5. Training Staff and Families
- Protégé staff will be trained on all procedures including:
- Cleaning/Disinfecting protocols, Sanitation practices, Physical distancing, Proper use of face covering, and self-screening at home—including temperature and symptom checks.
- Protégé will emphasize the importance of not coming to work if an employee has a frequent cough, fever, chills, difficulty breathing, or sore throat.
- All staff will continue to maintain communication regarding any changes or new training measures needing to be taken.
6. Checking for Signs and Symptoms
- Protégé staff will conduct visual wellness checks upon your arrival to the studio.
- Anyone entering the studio will have their temperature checked with a no-touch thermometer and will be asked if they have experienced any COVID-19 symptoms within the last 24 hours, as well as anyone in their home.
- Any person showing symptoms of COVID-19 will be asked to return home.
- All incidents of possible exposure will be documented and tracked. Local health officials will be notified, as well as all staff and families, of any positive case of COVID-19, while maintaining confidentiality.