Procedures for Dropping Off and Picking Up Children

Procedures for Dropping Off and Picking Up Children
 
               Please enter the school/church parking lot and drive under the covered walkway of the church. Cars will pull up to the first staff member or safety monitors before allowing children to exit. Children will exit the vehicle on the passenger side and walk to the courtyard entrances.  The student safety monitors and adults along the sidewalk will help to guide the children. Parents should not exit the car to assist the child.  Once the children are out of the vehicle, do not pull out of line; the line will move quickly. Follow along in front of the school to the other end of the parking lot to exit. Please turn right to exit the school lot. There is only one car line. Please do not stop next to the car line and let your children out. This is not safe for anyone. To promote independence, we do not want parents to walk children down the halls to classrooms.  Another option is to park your vehicle; use either cross walk and walk the children to the courtyard entrances. No child should walk across the parking lot unattended.  It is recommended that you park at the far end of the lot, so the sidewalk can be used, and you are not crossing car line traffic. If this is not possible and you need to park in the main area, please park in the second lot and walk with the children at the cross walk.  ANYTIME you are crossing the traffic line, pedestrians are expected to wait for the car line traffic to stop before crossing. The car line is not expected to stop for pedestrians.  Do not park in the car line at any time.  This is a fire lane.
 
PLEASE USE ONE OF THE TWO YELLOW CROSSWALKS THAT HAVE BEEN PAINTED IN THE PARKING LOT.
 
               All children Preschool through 8th grade are to enter through the courtyard doors. The office doors are to be used only after the 8:00 bell has rung.
 
Whether you are using the car line or parking, there is to be only one lane of vehicles entering the drive. Do not pass others waiting their turn and cut in front of them. Fairford is not a four-lane road and room must be kept for those driving into the neighborhood.
 
If you bring your dog to school at drop off or pick up, it is to stay inside your car.

 
Pick Up for Pre-School, Young 5 & ½ Day Kindergarten
 
               Students attending during the morning only are dismissed through the courtyard doors at 11:00 am.  The all-day Preschool/Y5 students will be dismissed at 3:00 pm.  Their teachers are with them until a parent or known caregiver/relative picks them up. If no one has arrived ten minutes after the dismissal time, the child/ren will be taken to the office, and someone will be contacted to pick up. That person is expected to enter the office and pick up the child/ren. Please call even if you are going to be just a few minutes late, as children worry if they don’t see you right away.    When children are dismissed to parents in the courtyard, parents are asked not to let the children play in that courtyard. 
 
Pick Up for Kindergarten Through Eighth Grade
 
There are two means of picking up children:
 

1. Park the car in a designated parking spot in the parking lot, get out of the car and get the child from his/her teacher for kindergarten through second grade.

 
2.  Use the MOVING car line.  Parents are NOT to get out of their car in this car line.  Thus, the only parents using the moving car line for pick up are those whose children are able/allowed to enter the car on their own without assistance within enough time, so the line is not interrupted.  If a child is not yet out or ready to get in the car, then that driver should park the car in an open designated parking spot or drive out to the street and enter the line again.
 

• Please be aware of all pedestrians crossing the parking lot; always use one of the two yellow crosswalks.
• There is only one car line; it is not acceptable to make a second lane of traffic and expect children to walk to that lane.
• Drivers are NOT to leave their vehicle while in the car line to have a conversation. Likewise, do not allow others to come to your car to have a conversation.  Find a designated parking spot. 

 
Early Dismissal
 
If your child needs to be picked up early, please send a note to the classroom teacher and inform the office.  When you arrive, please go to the office vestibule and sign the sign-out logbook.  At the appropriate time, the office staff will call the student to the office.
 
Dismissal Areas and Times After teachers have released students to their parent, we ask parents to supervise their children so that they are not running/playing in the courtyard.
 
               Kindergarten through Grade 2 children are dismissed at 3:05 pm through the courtyard doors. Their teachers are with them and will not let them go until a parent or known caregiver/relative is there to pick them up.
 
               3^rd, 4^th, & 5^th grades is dismissed at 3:10 pm through the courtyard; teachers are with them.  These children are allowed to walk to cars in the car line after acknowledgement from their teachers. .
 
               6^th, 7^th & 8^th grades are dismissed at 3:10 pm from the gym courtyard doors.
 
Parents picking up children with different dismissal times are to park their car in the parking lot and walk to the dismissal area to meet their children.
 
Leaving the Parking Lot
 
               When leaving the parking lot between the hours of 7:30 am to 8:15 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., turn right only. Please follow these directions for the safety of all people and vehicles moving in the area.