Bring a chair and sunscreen: boarding schools prepare for students' return

FILE PHOTO: Head of School Christopher Barnes walks through the campus of Midland School with Farm Manager Nick Tranmer, as the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Los Olivos, California, U.S., July 20, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

(Reuters) - Students at a small boarding school in California received an unusual set of instructions this summer: return to campus in the fall armed with a portable chair, a sun hat and sunscreen.

Taking classes out into the open is one key part of Midland School's plans to get its roughly 85 students back to in-person lessons, while reducing the risk of spreading the novel coronavirus.