Dear Summer Families,
We want to thank you for your patience these last few weeks as we evaluated and reevaluated the safest way forward for our summer session. With new public health variables emerging each day, we wanted to ensure we took the time to make the safest, best choice for all families and our staff.
We want to make this large amount of information as digestible as possible, so please take the time to read each point below. Please do not email us unless you have emergency circumstances that need to be addressed immediately, as we are working 24/7 to iron out all the details of the below.
Summer 2020 classes as we had planned them are canceled.
Instead, we will have 5 weeks of mini-sessions during the month of August. As the city is projected to be in Phase 4 of reopening at that time, which includes education, we anticipate being able to operate. These August mini-sessions will be tailored to fit COVID-19 safety protocols, so please read these guidelines carefully. They will be outlined in the email we will send out early next week.
Families already enrolled in August classes will have priority enrolling in these classes, followed by families enrolled in June/July. Further details and enrollment for these classes will come next week.
Additionally, we will send refund, credit, and tuition donation options in our next email. Please wait for these options, as we are confident our form will answer your questions.
We also wanted to let you know that we are in the process of building a school, set to open in early 2021. If you would like to donate your tuition to BND so that we can bring back staff and move forward with our school, you will have the option of doing so. The new school will NOT affect our outside classes; it will be a nature-based preschool but our all-outdoor park classes will continue until the end of time, so don't worry!
Again, thank you for your support of BND and for sharing your budding naturalists with us. If you are unable to join us this summer, we hope to have your child with us during another session in the future. We wish you health and safety during this time.
Best,
Sarah, Lilly, & Susannah
