Arrival Tips:
• Please do not drop your students off before 8:20 a.m. Staff supervision begins at the first 8:20 a.m. bell.
• Students who are eating breakfast will be allowed to go directly to the cafeteria at 8:20 a.m. Visitors are not allowed in the cafeteria before school. Staff will be in the cafeteria to support students that need additional assistance.
• The gate north of the front office is the gate 1st-8th grade students may enter when getting dropped off or walking to school. (Look for Mr. Lauer)
• Kinder students must be dropped off near the north gate, not near the Kinder playground.
• If not eating breakfast, Kinder students may enter through the Kinder gate and play on the playground.
• Walkers may enter at the south Paradise Lane gate. However, do not use the bus bay to drop your students off. We do not want to block or prevent our Sunflower busses from dropping off students.
• When dropping students off in the drop off lane in front of the school, please make sure you pull all the way down to the cafeteria area before allowing your child to exit your vehicle.
• If you are parking and walking your student up to the Kinder playground or the north gate, please use the designated crosswalks where our crossing guards are located.
• If the adult needs to get out of the vehicle to assist the student, please park in the parking lot and use the crosswalk.
• Remember, we are a closed campus to visitors before and after school. Extra staff will be available to help your student if they need an escort.
Dismissal Tips:
• Families we need your help! Please do not arrive early for pick-up. When too many vehicles park in the pick up lane early, the main entrance and bus bay end up getting blocked. The vehicles get backed up and it becomes impossible for parents to access the front office and our parking lot.
• If you are going to arrive before 3:35 p.m., please park in the parking lot to pick up your student.
• If the main parking lot is full, there is a north parking lot over by the softball field.
• If you are walking or biking to pick up your student, please notify a staff member that you have found your student.
• Please pull all the way forward (toward the cafeteria and/or dumpster), where your student will be loaded. Please do not block the crosswalks at any point in time.
• Please do not call your student over to your car. The staff will make sure students arrive to your car safely.
• All walkers will exit out of the Paradise Lane gate.
• 55th Ave is a great location to park and have your students meet you at. Students can exit campus through the Paradise gate at dismissal and use the crosswalk to meet you over there.
• 55th Ave is also the best street for cars to “line up” when the parent pick-up starts to get long. If you block the crosswalk or the bus bay, you could be ticketed by the police.
• When in the pick up line, please do not exit your vehicle for any reason. If you need to assist your student into the car, please park in the parking lot and use the crosswalk to pick up your student.
• Students should be entering on the passenger side only. This prevents students from walking in between cars and being exposed to oncoming traffic.
• Please encourage your student to not approach the vehicle until a staff member has called them over.
THANK YOU all for working with us and supporting our arrival and dismissal procedures. We cannot do this without all of you.
