Drop-Off and Pick-Up Procedures

Abigail Spalding

In order to facilitate a safe and orderly morning drop-off and afternoon pick-up, we ask that you read the following information carefully before arriving for the first day of school on Monday, August 30.

SchoolPass
This year we will be using SchoolPass to manage attendance including late arrival, early pick-up, absences, Early Childhood and Lower School dismissal, and wellness checks. You will receive a welcome email on Friday, August 20 from SchoolPass with specific instructions for what you need to do to help us manage a safe and orderly environment. If you do not receive this email, please check your spam folder. We will have a troubleshooting table at the Bounce Back to BZ event on August 26 to answer all your SchoolPass questions.

SchoolPass To-Dos:

Families of Early Childhood and Lower School students must provide dismissal instructions for all of their EC and LS children. Please follow the instructions below according to your pick-up preferences.

Sibling Pick-up as your standard dismissal instruction:

Log into your SchoolPass account using a web browser (not the phone app).
Click on "Update Defaults" underneath their picture (or person icon for a new student).
Click on the carpool dropdown and switch to "Sibling Pick-up."

Sibling Pick-Up on an Ad Hoc Basis:

From the phone app, click on the + sign
Choose activity
Choose the children to whom the instruction applies (only EC and LS students can do this)
Enter the date(s)

To Move Your Child to a Different Family’s Carpool:

From your phone app click on the + sign
Choose Carpool
Choose "Specific Date" for a one-time move
Choose "Recurring" if setting a standard change (i.e. every Monday)
- Choose the day of the week
- Indicate the time period for which this change takes place
Click on Choose Date
If moving more than one child, click on the dropdown where your child’s name is listed and choose which children it applies to.
Click on "Select Carpool"
Enter the name of the carpool
Choose the correct carpool
Enter any notes you would like to share with the teacher/school
Click Submit

Dismissal

Arriving in the carline: When arriving on campus in the carline, please have your SchoolPass number displayed on the right side of your vehicle. BZ personnel will add you to the carline in the order in which you arrive.
Arriving on foot:
- Open the SchoolPass app on your phone.
- Choose Pick-up.
- Pick the students whom you are picking up. Then choose "Parent Pick-up Area."
- Please note the following:
  - This requires you to have location services turned on.
  - The message you will receive back will say you have successfully added your child to carline. However, the teacher will know you are on the field.

Helpful Training Videos

Arrival and Before School
We will be using a staggered arrival this year. Please drop your child(ren) off using the following timetable:

Entry Doors
Just like last year, different grade levels will use different points of entry into the school to avoid crowding. Please help your child arrive in the following locations:

Front Door: Grades 1 and 2
SK Blacktop Door (near the sukkah): Grades 4, 7, and 8
Cummings Entrance: Grades 3, 5, and 6
Climbing Playground: All EC students

This year we will welcome Early Childhood and Lower School siblings of Middle School students into the building at 7:45 a.m. They will be supervised in a socially distanced manner until 8:00 a.m. when they are allowed to go to their classrooms. Normally this will happen in Blum so these early arriving siblings should enter through the Cummings door. However, at the start of the year during the High Holiday season, these students will use the front entrance and take the stairs directly to the fourth-floor gym. Beginning on Tuesday, September 21, we will move to Blum. Students who do not have Middle School siblings are asked to arrive according to the schedule listed above.

First Day of Early Childhood
To help ease the transition back to school for our youngest students, Early Childhood will have later arrival times on the first day, Monday, August 30. These students should plan to be greeted by their teachers on the west side of the Early Childhood wing (adjacent to the playground) at the following times. Those EC students with LS siblings can begin arriving at 8:15 a.m.:

Senior Kindergarten: 8:35 - 8:45 a.m.
Junior Kindergarten: 8:45 - 8:55 a.m.
Nursery: 8:55 - 9:05 a.m.

In order to facilitate a safe and orderly morning drop-off and afternoon pick-up, we ask that you read the following information carefully before arriving for the first day of school on Monday, August 30.

SchoolPass To-Dos: Families of Early Childhood and Lower School students must provide dismissal instructions for all of their EC and LS children. Please follow the instructions below according to your pick-up preferences. Sibling Pick-up as your standard dismissal instruction:

Log into your SchoolPass account using a web browser (not the phone app).

Click on "Update Defaults" underneath their picture (or person icon for a new student).

Click on the carpool dropdown and switch to "Sibling Pick-up."

Sibling Pick-Up on an Ad Hoc Basis:

From the phone app, click on the + sign

Choose activity

Choose the children to whom the instruction applies (only EC and LS students can do this)

Enter the date(s)

To Move Your Child to a Different Family’s Carpool:

From your phone app click on the + sign

Choose Carpool

Choose "Specific Date" for a one-time move

Choose "Recurring" if setting a standard change (i.e. every Monday)

Choose the day of the week

Indicate the time period for which this change takes place

Click on Choose Date

If moving more than one child, click on the dropdown where your child’s name is listed and choose which children it applies to.

Click on "Select Carpool"

Enter the name of the carpool

Choose the correct carpool

Enter any notes you would like to share with the teacher/school

Click Submit

Dismissal

Arriving in the carline: When arriving on campus in the carline, please have your SchoolPass number displayed on the right side of your vehicle. BZ personnel will add you to the carline in the order in which you arrive.

Arriving on foot:

Open the SchoolPass app on your phone.

Choose Pick-up.

Pick the students whom you are picking up. Then choose "Parent Pick-up Area."

Please note the following:

This requires you to have location services turned on.

The message you will receive back will say you have successfully added your child to carline. However, the teacher will know you are on the field.

Helpful Training Videos

Arrival and Before School We will be using a staggered arrival this year. Please drop your child(ren) off using the following timetable:

Entry Doors Just like last year, different grade levels will use different points of entry into the school to avoid crowding. Please help your child arrive in the following locations:

Front Door: Grades 1 and 2

SK Blacktop Door (near the sukkah): Grades 4, 7, and 8

Cummings Entrance: Grades 3, 5, and 6

Climbing Playground: All EC students

Senior Kindergarten: 8:35 - 8:45 a.m.

Junior Kindergarten: 8:45 - 8:55 a.m.

Nursery: 8:55 - 9:05 a.m.

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SchoolPass To-Dos:

Families of Early Childhood and Lower School students must provide dismissal instructions for all of their EC and LS children. Please follow the instructions below according to your pick-up preferences.

Sibling Pick-up as your standard dismissal instruction:

Arrival and Before School
We will be using a staggered arrival this year. Please drop your child(ren) off using the following timetable:

Entry Doors
Just like last year, different grade levels will use different points of entry into the school to avoid crowding. Please help your child arrive in the following locations: