Henry County’s public school system will continue feeding local school children during the summer, according to a report given at the Board of Education’s May 11 study session.

  The district’s new once-a-week schedule begins May 20 with the Seamless Summer Feeding Program, which will be at six locations: Hampton Middle, Locust Grove Elementary, McDonough Middle, Oakland Elementary, Stockbridge Middle and Wesley Lakes Elementary. Pickup will be only on Wednesdays, with each student receiving five breakfasts and five lunches for the week. Officials will also continue a partnership with Operation Lunchbox to provide food for children who cannot get to one of the pickup locations.

  The district’s food and nutrition department started a weekday pickup service in mid-March as the school campuses were closed and students shifted to a remote learning model. It began with four locations and was expanded to the current six. After spring break, a Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule was adopted through which each student still received five breakfasts and five lunches per week. School nutrition employees have been working on a rotation to make this happen.

  More than 132,000 meals have been served during the district’s remote learning period, according to the report.

  Meanwhile, superintendent Mary Elizabeth Davis announced at the meeting that all school campuses will be closed to outside activities this summer. That includes camps, community events and large gatherings that often take place on school grounds. Davis said one of the questions her office had received most often in recent weeks was about that very topic. Contractors who are working on school property during the summer are required to stipulate in writing that they are abiding by state and federal health guidelines.

  Additionally, summer learning recovery opportunities will only be made available for students at risk of retention. The locations, times and details to support an in-person model are nearing completion, and high school students will continue to have a virtual opportunity for credit recovery this summer, Davis said. All other students who may have earned an incomplete for the fourth quarter or for the year will have the opportunity to make up a unit or anything that was missed through the use of extended-day Saturday sessions once the new school year begins.