Upland Country Day School
Student Arrival/Dismissal Procedures

TRANSPORTATION BY CAR

Arrival:

• In order to separate bus traffic from car traffic, please drop students off only in the car lot (off Rt. 926)
• Students must be dropped off in the morning on the sidewalk only.
• Families who wish to walk their children into school must do so by way of the two crosswalks to make for predictable and safer traffic patterns.

Children must be escorted by parents when crossing the parking lots and cross walks.

Dismissal:

• Pre-Kindergarten (every day) and Kindergarten (Mondays and Fridays): 12:00 dismissal will be from the sidewalk.
• Kindergarten (Tuesday through Thursday) and Grades One through Five (every day): 2:50 dismissal will be from the Barn porch.
• Grades Six through Nine (Mondays and Fridays): 2:50 dismissal will be from the Barn porch. On Tuesday through Thursday: 4:20 dismissal will be from the Barn porch.
• All students will remain on the Porch or in the Gallery, depending upon weather conditions.
• There will be faculty members at the curb and on the porch with others as needed in attendance for supervision and safety, especially on Mondays and Fridays. For safety reasons, children can only be picked up by car at the curb, three or four cars at a time. No students can be walked to cars during dismissals. Each car should have a sign indicating family to be picked up (many out-of-division faculty do not recognize the family cars.)
• No child may be picked up by another's parent without written or verbal authorization from their own parent.
• Children who need to be picked up for doctor's appointments, after school lessons, etc. should be picked up before 2:45, and they must sign out in the Farmhouse before leaving. Parents need to communicate by note or phone before 1:00 in such cases.
• Students who are not picked up on time will be sent to After School Care in the Tech Center by 3:15 or 4:45 to wait for parent pick up. There may be an After School Care charge.

To ensure the safety of all, parent cell phone use while driving on campus is not permitted.

In addition:

• When the entire school is dismissed at noon, all children will go to the Barn porch and be dismissed from there to the car line.
• Parking at the School is limited, and we ask that you please obey the parking signs and use caution when driving on school property. Whenever possible during school events, please use the ice rink parking lot for overflow parking. Please do not drive up the delivery access road that links the Student Center to the rink, nor use the access road through campus. See Arrival/Dismissal section.
• Students may ride a bicycle to and from school with parental permission and assumed responsibility. They may not ride them, or let others ride them, on campus. Bikes should be left outside the Student Center.
• Students may not drive to campus or to any special School events without permission from the School.
• Lower School parents will be provided with a transportation form to indicate what days their child(ren) will be taking the bus. It is very important to return this form to Mrs. Andrews.
• Please do not use the Bus lot for drop-off or pick-up due to safety and bus concerns.