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The Columbia Press August 27, 2021 5 New campus: 250-270 students expected at middle school Continued from Page 1 puses and a career technical center for high schoolers. The new campus is off Southeast Dolphin Road in an area that feels quite rural despite its location south of Walmart. “The space, as a whole, the location, the actual site is beautiful,” Rogozinski said. “You’re up there, away from … much of the town. … I give former Superintendent Mark Jeffery a lot of credit for find- ing this location.” A design team of commu- nity and staff members re- searched new campuses and really “got a bead on what we wanted to see in its finished form and that vision becom- ing reality is probably the most exciting thing.” Josh Jannusch is principal of the new middle school, having served as high school principal last year and high school vice principal the year before. “It’s very very very exciting, but also a little overwhelm- ing, the things you just don’t think about, the protocols and procedures that have to be developed from scratch,” Jannusch said. He predicts students will be “wowed” when they set foot inside. “The building is just amaz- ing with so much wide-open space, natural light,” he said. “It feels like a college build- ing. It feels different.” About 1,000 students are expected at all three cam- puses – Warrenton Grade School, Warrenton Middle School, and Warrenton High School. The new middle school will get 250 to 270 of them. New teachers and adminis- trators have been hired, the finishing touches are going in, and electives and extra- curricular activities are back. Schedule Grades K-5: 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Warrenton Grade School, 820 S.W. Cedar Ave., 503-861-3376. Grades 6-8: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Warrenton Middle School, 1050 S.E. Warrior Way, 503-861-2281. Grades 9-12: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Warrenton High School, 1700 S. Main Ave., 503-861- 3317. Bruce Dustin Warrenton Middle School Principal Josh Jannusch. Students in all public schools will be required to wear masks this school year, a change from previ- ous guidance that had al- lowed each district to set its own COVID-19 protocols. All three campuses will offer full-time in-person instruc- All students should register online at warrentonschools. com/apps/pages/registra- tionWHSD. Open House Who: Members of the com- munity, students and parents. When: 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 2 Where: Warrenton Middle School, 1050 S.E. Warrior Way. tion five days a week. An entirely remote learn- ing option also is available through the district’s War- renton Academy of Virtual Education, or WAVE. “With all the mask man- dates and the reality of what we’re facing now, it still al- lows us to run a normal sev- en-hour school day and … a more robust set of enrich- ment classes for our middle school,” Rogozinski said. Oregon law requires in- dividuals to wear masks on school buses, indoors while at school, and during indoor field trips. No masks are re- quired when a student is outside, actively eating or drinking, playing a musical instrument that requires us- ing the mouth, or alone in a private office enclosed by walls on all sides with a door that’s closed. Other precautions: There will be a supervised health room where students who are ill with COVID-like symptoms can be moni- tored and sent home if needed. Those who test positive or who have been exposed to someone who has tested positive will be excluded from school for 10 to 14 days. Other protocols such as heavy cleaning, so- cial distancing and hand sanitizing also remain in place. But there’s good news this year, too. In addition to en- richment activities and electives, students can work in small groups and eat in the cafeteria. They’ll be able to spend time with more of their classmates during lunch and recess. Field trips are back. So are band, choir, and drama, along with a bevy of sports, clubs and other activities.