05 Mar Meet Safety Guidelines to Welcome Students Back to School
With educators planning for a return to the school year for 2021, practical solutions need to be in place to ensure the safety of the entire school community. Effective advanced planning is required to implement secure but economical strategies that will achieve the best safety practices to protect school staff and students.
Blackhawk school gazebos are ideal for providing elegant solutions to back-to-school protocols requiring spatial separation and mobile or temporary covered spaces.
Gazebos for preventative screening
When the students return to school, there needs to be in place preventative screening and temperature testing measures before they enter the campus. An important consideration is to ensure easy traffic flow while conducting the testing. This can be achieved with:
- Drive-through temperature testing gazebo
- Walk-up temperature testing gazebo
Where most students arrive by car, and there is regular daily vehicular traffic, a suitable solution is the Blackhawk 3m x 4.5m drive-through gazebo for temperature testing. Erect the pop-up gazebo at the school drop-off area for an efficient testing flow as students arrive.
Where students arrive on foot or by bus, a Blackhawk walk-up gazebo will cater for temperature testing prior to entry to the campus or at building entrances.
Spatial Strategies for Social Distancing
Social distancing requirements will have an impact on class sizes due to floor area limitations. Blackhawk school gazebos provide a novel answer – take to open-air classrooms! With indoor space at a premium, conducting administration duties or teaching and lectures undercover outdoors will provide a welcome solution.
Apply Indoor Spatial Solutions
With limited internal floor space, existing school buildings and classrooms can be repurposed to separate people for social distancing. Existing spaces need to be maximized wherever possible and Blackhawk’s strategy is the addition of temporary partitioning for deployment in any configuration that can be shifted and redeployed elsewhere as demands change.
Learning and working areas can be expanded by setting up temporary partitioning in areas like the gymnasium or library, administration offices and staff common areas, assembly hall or meeting rooms, providing considerable flexibility. Portable dividers are ideal for separating groups of people to ensure better social distancing.
School Management Planning
To meet government regulations as they change in response to public health imperatives throughout the year, educators will need to reach for temporary, and relocatable, solutions to remain compliant. Schools are employing flexible and versatile strategies to keep up with unforeseen changes ahead.
Schools that are planning ahead are implementing a dedicated medical gazebo for staff and student services, and to provide patient isolation should the situation arise. The 3m x 3m Blackhawk medical isolation shelter with solid walls and window walls and a front zip door wall, can be erected in just two minutes, indoors or outdoors.
Educators recognize the need to invest in gazebos, tents and mobile partitioning that can be easily and quickly deployed to provide a multitude of functions and applications.
Investment in spatial solutions that are required during the immediate public health emergency can be quickly repurposed when things settle down, to provide versatile assets useful for school sporting events, school fetes or fairs, fundraisers and a multitude of other events.
Blackhawk pop-up gazebos provide considerable flexibility, with a wide choice of sizes, configurations and colors, along with the options of custom-designed printing and branding/logos for identification purposes or visual impact.