COVID-19对伊利堡国际学校的影响

　　对于我们的伊利堡社区和FEIA家庭，

　　众所周知，COVID-19改变了当前的社会格局，并对企业，学校和社区产生了深远的影响。为此，FEIA的领导团队一直在密切监视局势，并努力确保我们达到联邦和省政府制定的所有标准和准则。

　　自2019年9月开业以来，我们非常感谢Fort Erie社区提供的支持，为了透明起见，我们想与您分享这种病毒如何影响我们。

　　为了使曲线变平并防止COVID-19病毒扩散，省政府最近要求公立和私立学校对学生和教职员工不开放。鼓励他们留在家里参加社会疏导。这意味着，自2020年3月20日起，我们必须解雇一些教学和支持人员。

　　除了学生和员工的健康以外，我们的主要重点是建立一个在线学习门户网站，以使我们能够带回我们的老师，并让他们几乎在家中提供课程。我们正在探索各种途径，以确保我们可以通过此途径支持我们的教职员工。我们的团队致力于帮助我们的学生学习和发展他们的教育追求。

　　这将需要一些时间，但是我们会在尽职调查过程中利用本地合作伙伴的支持来加快流程，并要求学生，家长和教职员工保持耐心。

　　我们非常希望能够再次打开校园的大门，并欢迎我们的本地和国际学生回来。在此之前，我们将努力为您提供最新信息。

　　康妮·斯特拉，

 校长

原文如下：
 

　　To our Fort Erie Community and FEIA Family,

　　As we are all aware, COVID-19 has changed the current social landscape and has had a profound effect on businesses, schools, and communities. To this end, the Leadership Team at FEIA has been monitoring the situation closely and working hard to ensure that we are meeting all standards and guidelines set out by the federal and provincial governments.

　　We are so appreciative of the support we have received from the Fort Erie community since we opened our doors in September 2019 and, in the interest of transparency, we wanted to share with you how this virus has affected us.

　　As part of the effort to flatten the curve and help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the provincial government recently mandated that both public and private schools close their doors to students and staff; encouraging them to stay home and participate in social distancing. This means that as of March 20, 2020, we have had to lay off a number of our teaching and support staff.

　　Our primary focus beyond the health of our students and staff is implementing an online learning portal to allow us to bring our teachers back and have them deliver the curriculum virtually from their homes. We are exploring every avenue to ensure we can support our faculty and students through this. Our team is committed to helping our students learn and grow in their educational pursuits.

　　This will take some time, but we are leveraging the support of local partners to expedite the process and ask for patience on the part of students, parents and staff as we do our due diligence.

　　We are so looking forward to being able to open our campus doors again and welcome our local and international students back. Until then, we will work hard to keep you updated.

　　Connie Stella,

　　Head Principal