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Arrival and Dismissal
Arrival
Students may arrive at school starting at 7:45am.
Families who walk to school may drop their children off at the appropriate door. There will be adults out front to greet them and walk PreK-K students to their classrooms.
PreK through Grade 3 students will enter the school via the South door.
Grade 4 through Grade 8 students will enter the school via the North door.
If a younger student would like to be walked to their classroom by an older Saint Clement sibling, they may enter through the South door together.
If your students are getting dropped off in a vehicle that is coming through the carpool line, the vehicle will need to head north on Orchard, turn right into the alley, and pull through the parish parking lot in two lines (just like you did last year for arrival and dismissal). We are doing this to avoid congestion on Orchard and to keep it as clear of traffic as possible.
After going North through the parking lot, all carpool vehicles will pull to the West (school) side of Orchard for arrival drop-off. A staff member will be there to help your child out of the car; students in Kindergarten and above are asked to exit their vehicles on their own. Please give hugs and kisses either at home or before pulling up to the school so we can keep the line moving. If you have a PK3 or PK4 student that you will need to help unbuckle, we ask that you pull forward towards the gym before stopping your vehicle and getting out of your vehicle so we can keep the line moving.
Students signed up to ride the bus will be dropped off in front of the church. A staff member will assist them across the street.
Students who arrive after 8:00 will be marked tardy.
Dismissal
In the PowerSchool Registration Packet, parents were asked how they would like their child to be dismissed each day. The options were Bus, Carpool, Supervised Walker, Unsupervised Walker, and After-Care/Enrichment Classes. The teachers will be given a list based on your selection from the PowerSchool Registration Packet.
All students will be dismissed outside at the end of the day and will wait in a designated location with a teacher until your arrival. However, on inclement weather days, we will keep students inside the school and call them as caregivers arrive.
If you need to pick up your child/ren for an appointment at the end of the day, you will need to pick them up by 2:30 pm. If you can not make it here by 2:30pm to pick up, then you will have to wait for regular dismissal time outside at 3:00pm.
All students will exit the building by 3:00 pm. PreK and K classes will exit a few minutes prior to 3:00pm.
Supervised walkers will be waiting for caregivers on the North stairs. Caregivers of supervised walkers should not enter the carpool line. Instead, a caregiver should approach the North door and let the staff member there know who they are picking up.
If your students are getting picked up in a vehicle that is coming through the carpool line, the vehicle will need to head north on Orchard, turn right into the alley, and pull through the parish parking lot in two lines (just like you did last year for arrival and dismissal). We are doing this to avoid congestion on Orchard and keep it as clear of traffic as possible.
Carpool students in Grades PreK3 through Grade 2 will be dismissed on the West (school) side of the street. Siblings of these younger students will also be picked up on the West side. So if you have a child who is in PreK3, but also one in 3rd-8th, you will pick up all of your children on the west side of Orchard (school side). Families with the youngest child in Kindergarten through Grade 2 will be given a YELLOW placard with your family name on it. **NEW THIS YEAR** Families with their youngest student in PK3 or PK4 (full day) will be given an ORANGE placard with your family name on it (if you did not receive yours yesterday, your child will bring your placard home tomorrow). We ask that families with orange placards pull up further towards the gym on the West (school) side of the street. You may need to get out of your vehicle to buckle your PK student, so we ask you to pull forward in order to keep the rest of the line moving. Please have your placard on your dashboard each day at dismissal.
Carpool students in Grade 3 through Grade 8 will be picked up on the East (Church) side. You will be given a BLUE placard with your family name on it (if you did not receive yours yesterday, your child will bring your placard home tomorrow). Please have your placard on your dashboard each day at dismissal. If your youngest child is in Grade 3, we ask you to pull up as far forward as possible, whereas if you are picking up a Grade 8 student, you can stop closer to the corner of Deming and Orchard. Older siblings should line up near their younger siblings. For example, if you have a Grade 4 student and a Grade 7 student, the Grade 7 student should line up near the Grade 4 student.
Students signed up to ride the bus will gather in the gym and be picked up just outside the gym doors.
NOTE: If First Day Dismissal plan (or any day during the year) will be different than what you had indicated in your PowerSchool Registration Packet, please make sure you send an email to your child's teacher(s) and attendance@stclementschool.org informing them of this change in your dismissal plan.
Below are the directions based on the indicated dismissal selection:
Unsupervised Walker
Unsupervised Walker students are allowed to leave the building on their own. All Middle School students will be considered Unsupervised walkers. Older siblings that fall in this category can also pick up their younger siblings.