This morning, we have been notified that a GCPS employee has tested positive for COVID-19.  In an attempt to limit the spread of the virus and keep everyone safe, GCPS will be closed for the next 14 days.  We acknowledge this is an inconvenience to our families and apologize for the temporary suspension of meal service during this time.  Thank you for your understanding and support.  We continue to keep our community and the world in our prayers during this pandemic.  It is our intention to resume food services as soon as it is safe to do so.  Let’s continue to keep each other in our thoughts during this time.

To our GCPS family and community,

In order to decrease exposure time for staff and community, starting Monday, April 6, meals will be provided at our current sites at schools and bus stops in the community on Monday only. Your child(ren) will still receive 5 breakfast meals and 5 lunch meals.

We are doing our best to practice social distancing at our sites. Thank you for your patience, support, and understanding.

Please continue to check the division’s media outlets for updated information.

**Please see other side for meal service times and locations**

Greensville County Public Schools

Greensville County Public Schools will be providing breakfast and lunch meals, during our emergency closure.  Meals will be provided to all children without charge.  Acceptance and participation requirements for the program and all activities are the same for all regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, political affiliation, or against otherwise qualified persons with disabilities, and there will be no discrimination in the course of the meal service. Meals will be provided, on a first come, first serve basis.  We will bus meals to certain locations throughout the school district.

We will not provide meals the week of April 13-17, 2020, our scheduled Spring Break.

Please continue to check the division’s media outlets for updates.

Meals will be available for pick up at the sites and times as follows:

                                Location                                                                                                                Days of Service

To file a program complaint of discrimination, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form (AD-3027), found online at http://www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_cust.html and at any USDA office, or write a letter addressed to USDA and provide in the letter all of the information requested in the form. To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) 632-9992.

Submit your completed form or letter to USDA by:

• Mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights

1400 Independence Avenue, SW

Washington, D.C. 20250-9410;

• Fax: (202) 690-7442; or

• Email: intake@usda.gov.

This institution is an equal opportunity provider.     

Greensville County Public Schools

          The Executive Order by Governor Northam to close schools for the remainder of the academic year and most recently, the stay put order, has changed all of our lives drastically.  We continue to receive guidance from the state frequently on how to handle this pandemic.  We appreciate your patience and support as we continue to adjust and make plans to move forward.  Here are a few things that you need to be aware of:

Parents, please be on the lookout for a telephone call from your child’s homeroom teacher to find out if you have internet access or a device (laptop or iPad) at home.  As we plan for virtual learning opportunities, this information is needed to determine where hotspots are needed in the community and how to distribute devices to students who may need them.  We apologize in advance for the multiple telephone calls you will receive if you have more than one child in the system.  In the meantime, continue to work on the packets sent home and use the online resources previously shared.

In an effort to decrease exposure time for staff and the community, students received meals for 2 days today at our feeding locations (for today and tomorrow).  We will provide meals for 2 days again on Thursday, April 2nd (for Thursday and Friday).  We will not serve meals on tomorrow, April 1st, and Friday, April 3rd.

          Effective, Monday, April 6th, meals (breakfast and lunch) will be provided at our feeding locations on Mondays for the entire week.  Your child(ren) will receive 5 breakfast and 5 lunch meals at this time.  In order to accommodate this change, all meal times will start 1 hour later.  Please continue to check the website and social media page for updates.

          All offices are closed to the public.  However, we are providing telephone coverage.  Effective Monday, April 6, school operating hours are Monday and Wednesday from 10 am – 1 pm and the School Board operating hours are Monday and Wednesday from 9 am – 2 pm.

          You can anticipate receiving updates from your child’s principal as well.  Please know that we miss our children and are praying for each of you. 

Dear GCPS Families:

During his conference today, Governor Northam has decided to close all public and private schools until the end of the school year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic

We are promised that the Virginia Department of Education will provide guidance to all divisions in our efforts to provide continuity of instruction and food services during this time.  Other areas on which we are to be given prompt guidance include:

• Graduation Requirements
• Awarding Standard Credit and Verified Credit (in the absence of SOL testing)
• Closing the instructional gaps created by the loss of instruction.

Please frequent the website to receive updates. As these and many more questions are answered in the next few days, weeks, and months to come, I will make every effort to maintain communication with you.  We will do everything in our power to continue the traditions of our school system - our Class of 2020 Eagles will walk across the stage at some date in the future. 

I understand these are uncertain times for us all.  The decisions being made are unprecedented and there is no script to follow. However, #iBelieve we will weather this storm together, and we will come through this on the other side stronger, and more prepared to take on any future challenge.

Dr. Kim Evans

Kim F. Evans,  Ed.D.

Division Superintendent

Greensville County Public Schools

105 Ruffin Street

Emporia, VA 23847

434-634-3748

"Leaders develop daily, not in a day!"  ~John Maxwell

#iBelieve #iLead

Greetings GCPS Families:

These are challenging times, and we are all in this together! While we are sorry we cannot safely provide "traditional schooling" as we know it to our children right now, we are extremely proud of the way our school families and community members have come together to ensure that students and staff are safe during the Commonwealth's required school closure.

All of our buildings and buses will be cleaned starting today.  Therefore, all buildings and offices will close at 12:30 today and will be closed for the remainder of this week.  Starting Monday, March 23, 2020, each building, will have TELEPHONE coverage Monday-Thursday weekly from 10 am – 1 pm.  If you have not picked up your child’s packet of review materials, please call your child’s school on Monday, March 23, 2020.

Families are reminded that the meals will be provided throughout the closure.

Please visit our website for the meal schedule and resources that you may find helpful.

Thank you for your assistance during this time and be safe!

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Please join us for the Disability Benefits: VA Medicaid Waivers and Social Security for Greesnville County Public Schools. Meeting will be help on April 8,2020 5:00-6:30 p.m. at the School Board Office.