| SCHOOL ARRIVAL
These guidelines have been developed over several years to ensure the safety
of our students and provide the most efficient traffic flow possible. Thank
you for your cooperation!
Students who are transported by car, ride bicycles, or walk to must arrive
after 7:15 a.m. and enter through the front doors of the school. Students
may not be dropped off by the gym or in the parking lot, only at the
sidewalk in front of the building. Those who arrive by bus will be admitted
on the gym side of the building. Prior to 7:40 a.m. students will go to a
designated place to wait for the beginning of the school day. Grades 1-3
will go to the gym, grades 4-5 to the lunchroom and grade six will go to the
music room. Students are expected to read and remain quiet while waiting
for the school day to begin.
After 7:30 a.m. all cars are to enter the school area from Sheila Blvd. and
exit to the right on Tara Dr. The first car in line must drive to the far
end of the front of the school while each car behind it follows. This
allows several cars to drop off their students at the same time. All
students must enter and exit cars from the right side of their vehicle.
Some parents find it convenient to organize a carpool for dropping off and
picking up.
AFTERNOON DISMISSAL
Car riders are students who are picked up in a vehicle that drives through
the carpool line. First and second graders begin loading cars at 2:50.
Third, fourth, fifth and sixth graders begin loading at 3:00. For safety
reasons, parents may not park in the parking lot and walk up to get a
student.
Walkers are any student that walks off campus. This includes students that
are walking with their parents. Walkers remain in the building until 3:10.
This allows most of the traffic to clear before they are dismissed. Parents
are asked to wait at the end of the building. Students walking toward Jay
Street are dismissed from the green hall. Those walking toward Tara Drive
are dismissed from the purple hall.
Bike riders are students that ride bikes or scooters (as long as they are
not gas powered). These students are also dismissed at 3:10 to go to the
bike area, put on their helmet and wait for an adult to dismiss them once
walkers are safely out of the way. Bikes and scooters must be walked to the
edge of campus. Skate boards must be carried to the edge of campus.
CARPOOL LINE
Carpool drop off and pick up is only through the front parking lot entering
from Harvest Loop. Use of the bus parking lot entering from Jay Street or
McQueen Smith Road is by permission of Mr. Faulkner and is granted only in
special needs cases.
Parents picking up only a first or second grade student may line up in the
loop starting at the main entrance to the school prior to 2:45. After 2:45
all cars need to wait at the end of the carpool line. Parents picking up a
first or second grader and an upper grade student or just an upper grade
student may line up behind the crosswalk at the entrance to the parking lot.
Write your child(ren)’s name(s) and grade level on a paper plate and place
it on the dashboard of your car. Someone will call your child’s name over
the speaker as you approach the sidewalk.
First and second graders are called to line up at one of the colored
markers. The color may be different from day to day depending on your place
in line and is not connected with the color of the hallways. When your
child’s name and color is called, please pull up to that color and wait
until an adult helps your child into the car. If your child’s class has not
come out you will be instructed where to wait so traffic can continue to
move. If you do not have an upper grade child you may move into the left
lane and watch to be directed around the upper grade traffic. For this
reason it is important that students enter cars on the right side to avoid
walking into traffic.
Third, fourth, fifth and sixth graders are announced as “upper grade”.
There are no colored markers, but students load at the far end of the
building. Please keep the name plate on the dash board as you approach the
sidewalk so the adults can help get students in the right area to load cars
without backing up traffic.
Students are asked to stand quietly in a single file line next to the wall
and listen for their name. Once their name is called they are to move up by
the columns and watch for their ride. This leaves the middle of the
sidewalk clear for students to get to their car when it is their turn.
Students may walk to their car when it is one of the first three or four
cars in line. Adults help facilitate this process by getting the children
to the right location before their car arrives.
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