Lower School (3-K, Pre-K, K and Grade 1) Hours: 8:30am-2:50pm

Upper School (Grades 2-5) Hours: 8:20am-2:40pm

Attendance Policy

  • If your child is absent, please email attendance@ps321.info with your child’s full name, classroom number/teacher’s name.
  • If your child is missing more than 5 school days due to holiday travel, you must also provide flight information which should include your child’s full name along with the departure and arrival dates.
  • Please note that according to DOE policy, after 10 consecutive days of absence an investigation will open that cannot be closed until the child returns. Click here to view the Attendance Policy.
  • If your child had a Dr.’s appointment, please provide a note via email or in person to excuse the full day’s absence or lateness.
  • Doctor’s notes are not needed for appointments mid-day where the child returns to school as they will still be marked present for the day.
  • If your child receives any kind of diagnosis from a doctor (strep, flu, conjunctivitis, fifth disease, etc.) you MUST provide a doctor’s note for us to have on file. There are a lot of different illnesses going around and it is important that we keep track of this.
Attendance Policy Slides

Arrival

  • 3-K: Parent/guardian drops off in classroom
  • Pre-K: Parent/guardian drops off in classroom
  • Kindergarten: Line up in auditorium on the 1st floor at 8:30 (the doors will be opened at 8:25). Parents/caregivers will accompany children as far as the auditorium doors, and will be asked to say goodbye quickly and then leave.   The teachers will meet their classes and walk them upstairs at 8:30.
  • Grades 1: Enter through gate to backyard on President St. at 8:30am and go to their line-up spots (the gate will be opened at 8:25). Parents will say goodbye at the gate and will not enter the yard. Staff will be supervising students and the teachers will meet their classes and walk them upstairs at 8:30.
  • Grade 2:  Enter through front doors on 7th Ave at 8:20am (Doors will open at 8:18am). Enter building without parent/guardian and go directly to assigned classroom.
  • Grade 3: Enter through front doors on 7th Ave at 8:20am (Doors will open at 8:18am). Enter building without parent/guardian and go directly to assigned classroom.
  • Grade 4: Enter building through back gates (1st St. or first gate on 2nd St) at 8:20am without a parent/guardian and go directly to assigned classroom. Gates will open at 8:18am.
  • Grade 5: Enter building through back gates (1st St. or first gate on 2nd St) at 8:20am without a parent/guardian and go directly to assigned classroom. Gates will open at 8:18am.

We will have staff members stationed on the stairs and in the hallways to guide students to their classrooms, where their teachers will be waiting for them.

Please say goodbye to your children before they get close to the doors to avoid a traffic build up.

If you’re late: Children who arrive late, after classes have gone upstairs, should enter through the front doors into the lobby. They will need to go to the office to get late passes.

Dismissal

Please make sure that your children’s teachers have in writing who will be picking up your children each day, and/or what after school program they will be going to. We can only dismiss children to people or programs you have designated.   

  • 3-K: In classroom
  • Pre-K: In classrooms
  • Kindergarten: Dismissal from 1st floor auditorium from specific lines from 2:45-2:50pm. These will be the same spots students lined up in at arrival time. One parent or caregiver will be permitted into the auditorium at dismissal time.
  • Grade 1: Dismissal from backyard on President St. from line-up spots from 2:45- 2:50pm. One parent or caregiver will be permitted into the yard at dismissal
  • Grade 2 – 4: Class specific Upper School backyard boxes at 2:40pm. One parent/caregiver enters backyard and stands along perimeter.
  • Grade 5: Dismissed from the front of Upper School. If you give written permission for your children to self-dismiss, the teacher will allow them to leave without an adult. If your child does not have permission to self-dismiss, please be in front of the school promptly at 2:40. In cases where children go to after school programs that pick up from or meet in the school, children will be directed to meeting places for those programs, assuming that parents notify teachers in writing about after school.

 

Parents or caregivers will be permitted into the yard at dismissal time and must stay on the perimeter and not go into the boxes. PLEASE NOTE: ONLY ONE ADULT PER CHILD CAN ENTER THE YARD.

Teachers will make contact with whoever is picking up children before allowing them to leave. In cases where children go to after school programs that pick up from or meet in the school, children will be directed to meeting places for those programs, assuming that parents notify teachers in writing about after school.

Please follow the instruction from staff at arrival and dismissal. Do not block the entrances and exits of the yard and school.  

No dogs or bikes are permitted in either the front or back yard or in any of the front yard dismissal areas. Please try to limit strollers.

Afterschool Programs

Afterschool programs have designated meeting spots, and children will be brought to these spots at dismissal time.

These are the dismissal spots:

  • Kids Orbit (program meets in the school)–Lunchroom
  • CBE & Beansprouts–Auditorium
  • Mindful Sports–Outside behind minischool (near garden)
  • Gamelab–Outside, garden area
  • All other after school programs–Gym 

 

Dismissal in the backyard does take a few minutes, given the number of children. Your children will be supervised until they are picked up.  Please be patient and do not worry!  

Please be on time to pick up your children. Children not picked up on time will be brought to the table areas near the garden (grades 2-5) and then to the lobby or directly to the lobby where they will be supervised and parents will be called.