CAZENOVIA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT PARENT/GUARDIAN GUIDE 2022-2023 8 BURTON STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (cont.) SIX-DAY CYCLE AND REPORT CARDS: DROPPING OFF STUDENTS AT ARRIVAL TIME: Burton Street Elementary School operates on a cycle that allows for a repeat of special activities Parents/guardians may drop students off in the back parking lot of the school (off of Clark Street). Students every six days. These activities include physical education, art, music and library. Physical education will be permitted into the building at 7:58 a.m. Parents/guardians will follow a single lane traffic pattern classes meet four times every six days; music meets twice; art and library meet once each cycle. and have their child exit the vehicle onto the sidewalk. Vehicles will depart single file following the car Teachers will share information about the classroom special schedule in on-going in front. For student safety, do not pass the vehicle in front of you. Vehicles must stay in the single lane. home/school communication. Parents/guardians are not permitted to park and walk their child to their classroom. School staff will be Report cards for kindergarten through fourth grades are issued at regular, 10-week intervals located at the entrance to help and support students should it be needed. throughout the school year. PICKING UP STUDENTS AT DISMISSAL TIME: SCHOOL AND CLASSROOM VISITATION: Students are dismissed from classrooms at 2:28pm. Parents/guardian pick up at the end of the day takes For the safety of our students and staff, doors will be locked at all times. Students will say goodbye place in the back parking lot (off of Clark Street). Parents/guardians will be issued a specific number and to their families in their vehicle or at the outside doors of the school. Parents/guardians are not rear view mirror tag that corresponds to the child/children they are picking up. Parents/guardians will wait permitted to walk their child to the classroom. This allows students to transition to school with in their vehicle until their child is dismissed from the building. Students will safely walk independently or their peers with minimal interruptions and ensures student and staff safety. Burton Street staff be escorted to the vehicle. Adults are not permitted to park and enter the building at dismissal time. Once members will be located at the entrance to help and support students should it be needed. the child is in the vehicle and safely buckled, parents/guardians are required to leave the designated area following the car in front of them, single file. Students who are not picked up by 2:45pm will be escorted Parents and guardians are welcome members of the Burton Street community. All visits to to the main office to wait for an adult pick up. school for the purpose of visiting your child’s class must be pre-arranged with the teacher and/ Should an adult be picking up your child that does not normally do so, parents/guardians are required or administrator. Planned events will be communicated with families in a timely manner. All to send a note in with their child that morning to notify the school of who will be picking up the student. visitations should be pre-arranged and visitors must sign in at the main office and obtain a Changes can be made via phone call to the main office by 1:00pm. The adult picking up the child will be visitor badge. required to sign out the child. TRAFFIC SAFETY: To reduce congestion in the designated areas at arrival and dismissal times, we strongly encourage parents Traffic congestion at the school continues to be a safety concern. Parents/ guardians are strongly to have their children ride the bus. encouraged to have their child learn to use the school bus, and use the bus to go to and from LATE ENTRY/EARLY DEPARTURE PROCEDURES: school on a regular basis. Students will be welcomed into the building at 7:58am, school starts promptly at 8:10am. Students who Should parents choose to drop off or pick up their child, please do so safely: arrive late will need to be signed in by a parent/guardian with main office staff upon arrival. Any student • Obey the speed zone • Be cautious of other vehicles and particularly who arrives after 8:10 is considered tardy. • Follow the traffic flow patterns at the school the movements of parents and their children Should you need to pick your child up from school early, please send in a written note to your child’s • Park in designated parking areas entering and exiting the school facilities teacher. When picking up your child, please enter the building and sign your child out with the main • Do not block fire lanes or loading dock and grounds office staff. After your child is signed out, they will be called down to the vestibule for pick up. • Do not let your child enter or exit the vehicle • When dropping off, please have students in traffic exit on the sidewalk side WALKERS: Independent walkers will be dismissed as a cohort and will leave school grounds separate from bus departure.