• Introductory Lesson: Consider an introductory lesson that walks through new routines including how to enter and exit the location/facility, change clothing (when applicable) and create their own physical distance in an activity space.
• Follow the school board policies and processes for screening and contact tracing for visitors (for example, instructors).
• Congregating: As much distancing as possible between students, between students and staff and between staff members should be promoted. As a result, students should be directed to not socialize or gather before or after a health and physical education class.
• Protective Measures: School boards/schools should identify the protective measures/controls (for example, indoors/outdoors, cohorting, masking, distancing) and appropriate instructional strategies for:
  • high-contact activities: sports/activities where there is physical contact and/or close proximity required between individuals; and
  • low-Contact activities: sports/activities that involve intermittent close proximity or limited, incidental physical contact between participants and allow for physical distancing most of the time.

Communicate to students the importance of:

• refraining from touching eyes, nose, mouth and face during activity;
• personal hand hygiene practices before, during, and after health and physical education;
• respiratory etiquette during physical activity (for example, sneezing or coughing into the crook of the elbow, no spitting, no clearing of nasal passages); and
• eliminating the use of scents to reduce sneezing and coughing.

Follow school board/public health policies and procedures for the transportation of students for curricular (health and physical education) activities. Consider the following:

• share the transportation with the same students each time;
• open windows for ventilation;
• maximize distance between individuals in the vehicle;
• all individuals inside the vehicle wear a non-medical mask;
• when possible, organize seating so that students are side by side or behind others, rather than facing each other;
• keep a list/seating chart of transportation arrangements (for example, who shared a car, where students sat on a bus) to facilitate contact tracing.