TRAVEL TO AND FROM SCHOOL

Safety of our children is very important. The following are suggestions and rules which will help your child be safe.

1.    Insist that your child go directly to and from school.  We encourage parents never to let students travel alone.

2.    Know the time your child is due home. If your child is irregular in arriving home, please contact the school and an attempt will be made to find the reason for the delay.

3.    Students should not arrive before 7:40am, Students should depart school as soon as dismissed.

4.    Please pick students up PROMPTLY after school. 

5.    Students should stay off private property and travel the recommended routes to and from school.

6.    You must send a note if your child is to change his/her regular routine. Young children, especially, have difficulty remembering what a parent said when it is time to go home.  Arrangements need to be made BEFORE school. Classroom instruction will not be interrupted to deliver messages to students. Children may not use the phone to change plans.

7.    Teach your child to walk on the side of the road facing on-coming traffic if there are no sidewalks.

8.    Advise your child to avoid strangers, and not get into a car with someone s/he doesn’t know. Tell him/her not to accept money, candy or presents from strangers, and not to help a stranger look for lost animals or get directions.

9.    Parents picking up and dropping off students are required to comply with all traffic instructions at the front of the school for the safety of all children.

PARKING LOT SAFETY AND COURTESY

Parents and students are asked to follow all traffic and safety rules when dropping off children before school or picking up children after school.  Parents are asked to personally walk their children to and from cars.  When crossing streets, use crosswalks and corners.  Please be courteous of others by not blocking vehicle or pedestrian traffic, and by following requests made by staff and student traffic helpers.

Parking is permitted only in designated areas. 

Drivers who do not find a parking space are required to park along the street.  Safety and courtesy are to be observed - this might save a child’s life.  THE BUS LANE MUST BE KEPT FREE OF PARKED VEHICLES AT ALL TIMES.  We also ask that cars not block the entrance to school from Collett Avenue or double park on the street; this only delays departures and causes confusion for everyone.  Your cooperation in this matter will be appreciated.