Our goal is to have efficient, safe procedures that all parents follow when dropping off or picking up their children at Elmwood. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. If you are dropping off children at the start of the school day or picking children up at the end of the school day, please use our car line. This minimizes traffic in the parking lot. If you need to come into the school at anytime, use the designated spaces in the parking lot; please do not park in the bus lane, or handicapped spaces unless you have a permit.

 

If you regularly pick up your child after school, we will have a number tag assigned to your family to hang in the front window of your car. It will help the car line move a little faster because we can see what families are up next in the loading zones. Please have the sign displayed in your window every time you pick up your student(s). If you pick up your student in the car line and do not have a car tag, a staff member will ask for your student’s name.

 

Cars should enter the parking lot through the south gate (when looking at the school - the entrance on the right); the car line then winds behind the school and stops at the north side. There is one line that forms for drop off and for pick up. The gates are unlocked starting at 8:00 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. The loading and unloading zone is on the north side between the gym and 5/6 pod. The loading zone is identified by cones. It is in between these cones that cars will stop and students will be getting out of cars. The goal is to keep the car line moving without students or adults going in between the cars. Please watch for the staff on duty. They may motion you to pull forward before letting your child out of the car.

 

For morning drop off, students can begin exiting cars at 8:00 a.m. Please do not let your child out of the car before 8:00, when staff supervision begins. We would like to ensure there is supervision for our students walking in. If your child needs to arrive before that time, they must have their teacher’s permission to come in the building through the main doors or be attending a club or meeting.

 

Any child arriving after 8:15am must be signed in at the office by a parent or guardian. Any student not signed in by a parent/guardian will be marked with an Unexcused Tardy. 

 

For pick up at the end of the school day, students will stand in the gym and will exit between the gym and 5/6 pod to get into cars starting at 3:05 p.m. within the student loading zones. Any student that is not picked up by the time the car line is finished will be brought to the office. Thank you for being on time and waiting in the car line for PM pick up. If your child needs to leave early near the end of the day and waiting in the car line is not possible, a parent or guardian must sign them out in the office.

If your child will be absent or arriving late, please call and inform the office as soon as possible.

 

If your child will be picked up early due to an appointment or scheduled activity, send a note to school for their teacher.

 

E-mails to the office during the day are not as reliable as a phone call. Please take the time to call if a note is not sent. (262) 789-6581 Thank you! To avoid a loss of instructional time, your child will be called down to the office when you arrive.

 

If your child is going home on a different bus, or with a friend, or being picked up instead of taking the bus, send a note to school for their teacher.