Drop Off and Pick Up Procedures

Arrival/Dismissal Procedures

Dear Hickory Point Parents,

Safety is a top priority. Arrival and dismissal are a 12-minute process. Please be patient. Here is the process:  

Arrival Process Kindergarten

Kindergarten students will enter the building through Door H, Door A, Door C beginning at 8:10 am. Students will scan their identification to verify the parent has self-certified their child is symptom-free. There will be a temperature check, as well. Students will walk to the designated waiting area and sit six feet apart until the bell rings.  At 8:25 am, the first bell rings and the staff will escort the children into their classrooms.

 The main entrance  (Door H) is the walk-up entrance (west side of the building).  Parents park in the parking lot and walk to the front door each morning beginning at 8:10 am.  Please give them a kiss and say goodbye at the door. Students exiting the bus will enter the building from Door A.  

Parents dropping off by car will enter the school parking lot from Walters and follow the designated one-way road around the back of the building to the designated entrance Door C. Parents remain in the car, and staff will escort the student to the temperature check area.  Please see the below aerial map of the Kindergarten Center to help clearly explain the process.

 

Dismissal Process:

Teachers will implement a staggered dismissal process to limit the number of students in the hallway. Teachers will walk their children to their going home locations. Students exit the building through 3 or 4 locations.

Kindergarten

• “WALK UP” pick up line: Students will wait in the  hallway and be dismissed when parents get to Door H (Parents park their car and walk to the front of the school and wait by the door.)

• CAR pick up: Students will wait inside the foyer of Door C. Please enter the parking lot from Walters follow the designated one-way road around the back of the building to the designated entrance Door C. Parents remain in the car and staff will escort the student to the car. 

• All BUS riders and after-school YMCA : Teachers will walk their bus and YMCA  riders into the gym. We will practice social distancing. Students will be seated six feet apart from each other, facing forward, in their designated bus lines. The staff will escort students to board the bus.

• ADVENTURE CAMP Staff supervises students attending Adventure Camp until the staff arrives. 

Arrival/Dismissal Procedures

Dear Hickory Point Parents,

Safety is a top priority. Arrival and dismissal are a 12-minute process. Please be patient. Here is the process:  

Arrival Process First and Second Grade

First and Second grade students enter the building through Door A, Door B, Door C, or Door H beginning at 8:10 am. Students will scan their identification to verify the parent has self-certified their child is symptom-free. There will be a temperature check as well. Students will walk to the designated waiting area and sit six feet apart until the bell rings.  At 8:25 am, the first bell rings. The staff escorts the children into the classroom.

 The main entrance  (Door A) is the walk-up entrance. Parents park in the parking lot and walk to the front door each morning beginning at 8:10 am.  Please give them a kiss and say goodbye at the door. Students exiting the bus will enter the building from Doors B and C.  

Parents dropping off by car will enter the school parking lot from Laburnum and follow the designated one-way road around the horseshoe to the designated entrance Door H. Parents remain in the car, and staff will escort the student to the temperature check area. Please see the below aerial map of Hickory Point to help clearly explain the process. 

Dismissal Process:

Teachers will implement a staggered dismissal process to limit the number of students in the hallway. Teachers will walk their children to their going home locations. Students exit the building through 3 or 4 locations.

First and Second grade 

• “WALK UP” pick up line: Students will wait in the first grade hallway and be dismissed when parents get to Door G. (Parents park their car and walk to the back of the school and wait by the door.)

• CAR pick up: Students will wait inside the foyer of Door H. Please enter the parking lot from Laburnum and drive into the horseshoe. Cars wait in a line in the horseshoe, and students exit Door H when the car is within the designated pick up area. Staff will escort your child to your car.  

• All BUS riders and after-school YMCA : Teachers will walk their bus and YMCA  riders into the gym. We will practice social distancing. Students will be seated six feet apart from each other, facing forward, in their designated bus lines. The staff will escort students to board the bus.

• ADVENTURE CAMP Staff supervises students attending Adventure Camp until the staff arrives. 

Arrival 

The first bell rings at 8:40 AM. Morning supervision will be available daily between 8:25 and 8:40, and dismissal will be at 3:15. Do NOT drop off children prior to 8:25 as the staff is not present to supervise, and children will not have access to the building. Children may not wait in the office. 

Students will be issued ID cards this year during the first day of in-person learning. These cards will be used as a bus pass and for entrance to school each day. Children will scan their ID each day prior to entering the building. This scan will let us know if parents have completed the child's self-certification form being Covid-19 symptom-free. This will need to be done through the parent portal each day before the student arrives on campus. Even though the self-certification contains a question about the student being fever-free, we will perform an additional temperature screening at the building entrances where a staff member will be present to monitor students. 

Third and fourth grade students will be dropped off on Shabonee Trail between Doors N and O. Children in grade 3 will enter at Door N. Children in grade 4 will enter at Door O. Fifth grade students will be dropped off outside of the main entrance and enter through Door A. Staff will be present at the designated entrances to greet the students. Upon entry, the children will move to locations in the hallways located near their classrooms, where they will maintain six-foot physical distancing while waiting for the first bell at 8:40. Markings have been placed on the floors for students to wait. If you have children at multiple grade levels, the entrances are located nearby so that the child will use their assigned entrance. This ensures that hallway patterns are followed too. 

Children that arrive via the school bus will be directed by staff and will follow the same process for entry to school. 

Dismissal  

Teachers will implement a staggered dismissal process beginning at 3:15 to limit the number of students in the hallway. Teachers will walk their children to their going home locations. 

THIRD AND FOURTH GRADE STUDENTS will be dismissed on Shabonee Trail from DOOR N (Grade 3) or Door O Grade 4. Vehicles should pull up as close to Door O as possible and wait in line along the sidewalk on Shabonee Trail for students to walk to the vehicle. Please do not pull around the line to the front or park along the north side of Shabonee Trail. Remain in your vehicle, and students will load as vehicles pull up. Traffic cones indicate areas for pick-up. Please use caution at all times. 

FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS will be dismissed from the main entrance Doors A & B. Vehicles will access the main entrance from Pfingsten Road only. Right turns from Shabonee Trail through the parking lot will NOT be allowed during dismissal. If using Shabonee Trail from Moon Hill, please exit on Pfingsten Road and re-enter through the main driveway entrance. Students will wait on the sidewalk in front of the main entrance. Please remember to pull up as far as possible to promote the efficiency of our dismissal protocol. 

Sibling Pick-Up: We realize that families have multiple children attending Shabonee School. We recommend that siblings meet together at one of the dismissal locations, preferably at the location with the youngest child. 

Using the pick-up line is the preferred method for parental pick-up. Should parents need to park, do so in the east parking lot located off of Pfingsten Rd, exit your vehicle, and meet your child on the sidewalk. Children are not allowed to cross over to the parking lot without a parent or guardian accompanying them. This is for the safety of the children. School personnel will continue to be available to help supervise students during dismissal and ensure that parents follow safety rules during peak traffic times. Please drive cautiously!

To facilitate our intake procedures, Wildcats will be dropped off and enter the building through three different entrances. All vehicles will still enter the lot off of Sanders and use the horseshoe drive to get to the building.  Students should exit their vehicle and enter the building based on this diagram. It is important that 7^th grade families are especially efficient in unloading their students as their entrance is on the north side of the building, prior to the 6^th and 8^th grade entrances.  Those vehicles will also need to exit carefully once students are unloaded as other vehicles may be going around to get to the front entrances.

Once in the building, students will report to different morning locations to await the start of the school day.  All 8^th grade students will report to their first period classroom.  Sixth and seventh graders will report to locations based on their lunch period.  We created this infographic to help those students determine their assigned location. Creating these locations was necessary based on not having more than 50 students in one location at a given time.

End of the day pick-up procedures will be largely the same as prior years, though with half of our students remote each day, there will be slightly less traffic. Please follow the direction of staff members who are stacking cars in the driveway prior to dismissal.  We have a solid process that ensures cars make it to the front of the school in the same order in which they arrived.  This only works if cars stay in their assigned lane until the reach the building, when the traffic become single file.  We will have supervisors outside at dismissal helping students to maintain a 6-foot physical distance as they wait to be picked up.