COVID-19 Update

COVID-19 Update, June 9, 2020 at 4:50 pm

Effective on June 8, 2020, Alameda county public health posted an update with regards to shelter-in place guideline. Because of this current health order, Bee Best Learning Center can no longer offer a weekly summer camp in our traditional model but instead will be replaced by a 4-week bundle camp covering July 6-31, 2020 for 5-days full day (8am-6pm) and half day (morning 8am-12:30pm and afternoon 1:30pm-6pm).

We will also required to assigned children to be in a stable group (social bubble) of 10 or fewer throughout the 4 weeks of camp. The stable group means that the children will remain with the same group throughout the day for 4 weeks and do not mix with other groups in any way. The teaching staff to student ratio will be up to two staff to a maximum of 10 students (with a total of 12 including two staff and 10 students).

Therefore, as of June 9, 2020, for those of you who have registered to our weekly summer camp in the month of July and August previously will receive an email cancellation notice within this week and will get a priority registration (on June 15-17, 2020) for our 4-week bundle summer camp registration for July 6-31, 2020.

Our 4-week bundle July 6-31, 2020 summer camp registration will be opened to public from June 18-28, 2020. 

As a reminder, Bee Best Learning Center will remained closed until end of June 2020. We will resume operation for summer camp starting on Monday, July 6, 2020.

Due to the shelter in place order, please contact us via email for any communications until July 6, 2020 because our office is closed and we will not monitor office voicemail.

COVID-19 Update, May 13, 2020 at 11:00 am

Bee Best Learning Center will remained closed until end of June 2020. Therefore summer camp sessions for the month of June will be cancelled. We will tentatively resume operation for summer camp starting on Monday, July 6, 2020.

We will send an email cancellation notice shortly for those of you who already registered for summer camp in the month of June.

Due to the shelter in place order, please contact us via email for any communications until July 6, 2020 because our office is closed and we will not monitor office voicemail.

We will postpone the invoicing for the summer camp tuition for any new summer camp registration of the month of July-August until a week before we resume operation.

COVID-19 Update, April 3, 2020 at 3:25 pm

On April 1, 2020 CVUSD has announced to continue suspension of in-school instruction and continue their distance-learning format until the end of the school year. Following this decision, Bee Best Learning Center after school program will remain closed until end of the school year. Math Champions, Creative Drawing, Art Exploration, and LEGO® workshops will also be cancelled. With the exception, Chess Club workshop will continue distance learning through Berkeley Chess directly.

Bee Best Learning Center will resume our operation as planned for the start of our summer camp on Monday, June 1, 2020.

With regards to the tuition, we will refund the after school program tuition and transportation fee (from March 16-27) and the cancelled workshops and no longer use it as a credit.  We will mail the refund check within the next week or two and email you the updated statement. Please deposit the refund check as soon as you receive it.

On the side note, we are currently exploring to introduce online distance learning via zoom for the following:

1. School work help (30min session per day)
   • Monday – Thursday, choose session from 9:30am-12:00pm with 1:2 teacher to student ratio
2. Chinese class (35min session per day)
   • Monday – Thursday, choose session from 2:00pm-5:00pm with 1:5 teacher to student ratio

Further details on the tuition cost and schedule will follow.

COVID-19 Update, March 25, 2020 at 12:20 pm

Today at 11:15 am, the CVUSD has extended the school closure until May 1st and resume school on Monday, May 4th.With this information, Bee Best Learning Center will resume operation on Monday, May 4th, following CVUSD’s decision.

All workshops will resume on and after May 4th. Our summer open house scheduled on March 28th, April 11th and April 26th will be cancelled.  Further details on future and make-up workshop classes will be sent out on a later date.

With regards to tuition, we will NOT collect the next tuition cycle (from March 30th – May 1st).We will credit the past two weeks of tuition cycle and transportation fee (from March 16th – March 27th) and apply it towards tuition cycle from May 4th – May 29th.

Here’s the link for the Covid-19 update from the CVUSD>>

COVID-19 Update, March 16, 2020 at 1:54 pm

Today at 1pm, County authorities announced a stay in place directive to begin at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday until at least April 7th and involves San Francisco, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Marin, Contra Costa and Alameda counties. It is to stay in place until at least April 7.  Since we made the decision to follow the CVUSD, Bee Best Learning Center will resume operation on Wednesday, April 8, 2020 tentatively until further update. 

Here’s link for the Covid-19 update from the CVUSD>>

COVID-19 Update, March 13, 2020 at 7:35 pm

Bee Best Learning Center will be closed starting on Monday, March 16, 2020 and resume operation on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. We made the decision to follow the CVUSD on closing the school with regard to the COVID-19, which was last updated on March 13, 2020 at 6:42 pm. 

We will credit the tuition and transportation fees (from March 16-27) and apply it towards the next tuition cycle March 30 through April 24.

All workshops will be postponed during this time. Further details on future and make-up workshop classes will be sent out on a later date.

Our summer open houses scheduled on March 15 and March 28 will be cancelled.

Thank you in advance for your patience and understanding. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us by email [email protected].

COVID-19 Update, March 12, 2020 at 11:39 am

We are taking extra steps and precautions to make sure our students are safe:

1. We have installed additional hand sanitizer stations in our snack area for convenience.

2. Staff continues to remind students to use safe hygiene practices by washing hands, etc.

 Additional guidance from the Alameda County Public Health Department (ACPHD) regarding how to reduce the risk related to community gatherings. The goals of this guidance were to protect people attending and working at events, to reduce community transmission, and to slow and decrease the spread of the virus.

In accordance with the recent direction from Alameda County about limiting large gatherings until after spring break, the following events are cancelled/postponed at Bee Best:

• Math Kangaroo Competition 3/19

Any future or additional cancellations will be communicated as soon as possible.  We are following CVUSD’s decision. If Bee Best does close, the tuition and transportation fee will be credited toward the next pay period.

A friendly reminder, please do not send your child to school if they are ill.  As a reminder, they must be fever free, without the aid of a fever reducer medication for a minimum of 24 hours before returning to school.  If your child is going to be absent, please call us at (510) 728-2110 or text Director Jing at (510) 402-7500 and let us know.

COVID-19 Update, March 2, 2020 at 11:14 am

We understand that the Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a concern for many people. Fortunately, at this time, there are no known cases in Alameda County. Our center is following the guidelines of the Alameda County Public Health Department.

• We are asking all families to keep your children at home if they are feeling sick and/or exhibiting cold/flu symptoms. We have also requested our staff members to stay home and not come into work if they are feeling ill.
• If any member of your household has recently visited a foreign or local destination which have reported Coronavirus cases, we ask you to please seek a medical opinion and consider a voluntary self-quarantine in your home to help reduce any possible spread within our community.
• Please remind your child to cover any coughs or sneezes with a tissue and to immediately dispose of the tissue in a garbage can.
• Each day after students leave our center, our staff is sanitizing all commonly touched surfaces (doorknobs, tables, laptop keyboards, etc.) in the lobby, classrooms, and bathrooms.
• We have placed a large hand sanitizer bottle in each room which is available for use by all students and staff.
• We are also encouraging all students upon arrival from school to wash their hands with soap and water before eating snack.

The risk to the general public continues to remain low, and this will hopefully continue as long as everyone does their part to follow the guidelines.