Drop off and Collection Routines
The Board of Management, the In-School Management Team and the staff have been working to ensure a safe return to school for all on the 31st August. Please note that we have made some changes to classroom arrangements. In order to create adequate space for physical distancing we have decided to relocate sixth class to the G.P. Hall for the coming year and First Class will occupy this classroom. This has allowed us to place the two Senior Infant classes in adjacent classrooms. Below are some of the guidelines relating to drop-off and collection. If would be helpful if you discussed these with your child prior to re-opening.
· Children are to be dropped off in the set down area in the morning where staff will be available to direct them to the correct entrance.
· We ask that children are dropped off between 8.55 a.m. and 9.10 a.m. Children should not be dropped to the school before these times.
· Parents dropping off Junior Infants will receive a separate information note from Ms.O Connor. They will be assigned a time between 9.15 a.m. and 9.30 a.m. for the first morning.
· The following are the entrance and exit doors for each class:
o Junior Infants- Front Door
o Senior Infants- Staff Door (On the left of the building near the staff car park)
o First Class- Back Door (Follow the footpath beside the staff door to the rear entrance)
o Second Class- Front Door
o Third Class- Front Door
o Fourth Class- Back Door
o Fifth Class- Back Door
o Sixth Class- Staff Door
· Parents who wish to accompany infants to their assigned door should park in the lower car park.
· Parents are to treat the roundabout as a drop off area only and should not obstruct traffic by leaving their vehicles.
· Parents are asked to maintain a distance of 2m from other people at all times in the school grounds.
Home time collection:
· Junior Infants will always be collected at the front door at 1.50 p.m. (Collection time for the first two weeks is 12 pm).
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Senior Infants will go home at 1.50 pm as usual.
Children will be brought to the staff entrance where their parents can collect
them.
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For Junior and Senior Infant collection time
parents will be asked to form socially distanced queues using the queuing
system provided.
· First, fourth and fifth classes will exit via the rear entrance under the supervision of their teachers and proceed in their class bubble to their transport.
· Second and third classes will exit via the front entrance under the supervision of their teachers and proceed in their class bubble to their transport.
· Sixth class will exit via the staff entrance under the supervision of their teacher and proceed in their class bubble to their transport.
· All lines will be supervised by staff until they reach the lower car park to maintain social distancing.
· In the interest of health and safety children should not congregate in the car park.