In our effort to ensure student and staff safety, student arrival and dismissal at Quakertown Elementary School will resemble the same procedures utilized last school year, 22-23. Please see below for our student arrival and dismissal guidelines. It is our goal with student arrival, as with all other day-to-day aspects of school, to mitigate, minimize, and eliminate all potential safety concerns. With your help, support, and adherence to these measures, we will be able to safely and quickly have all QE students entered into the building ready to learn, and students safely on their way home.
Please note that this system may change based on other factors and circumstances. As these changes come up, we will communicate them to you.
Student Arrival
For all students, parents and guardians are reminded of the following general safety guidelines when arriving at Quakertown Elementary: Student Dismissal
Our aim for student dismissal is safety First, and foremost, this will require patience. We appreciate this as this safely will require additional steps and measures that will likely increase the time needed at student dismissal.
Our students will be strategically dismissed via our PA system. There will be two school bells at the conclusion of our day. The first bell will ring at 3:32 PM and walkers and bus riders will be dismissed. The second bell will be at 3:35 PM. All students being dismissed to a parent, (K-5) will begin to exit the building following the 3:35 PM bell. If you are planning to pick up your child, please plan to be present at 3:35 PM for pick up. Students will exit the building through the doors as shown in the virtual below with their homeroom teacher. Our teachers will have orange clipboards to signify they are teachers and to record what adult is picking the child up. We ask that you remain back from these areas. The teacher will visually identify who you are and release the child to you. For each class, this will be done one at a time. Again, for the beginning of our school year, we should anticipate this taking additional time. This specific and strategic dismissal is done so that our students and staff are safe!
If your child is riding a bus, they will be dismissed from their homeroom at 3:32 PM to the gymnasium. They will safely exit our building by our bus loading doors and enter onto the bus.
As a reminder, please help us support student and staff safety by adhering to the following:
To ensure student and staff safety, below will be the designated exits we will use when dismissing from Quakertown Elementary School.
Front Doors
Playground Doors
Bus Doors
Kindergarten
(Ms. McNamara and Mrs. DeStefano)
Third Grade (Mrs. Goldcamp, Ms. Olchewsky and Mrs. Riedi)
None
First Grade
(Dr. Stabilit and Mrs. Altner)
Fourth Grade (Mrs. Held and Mr. Wieand)
Second Grade
(Mrs. Rosica and Mrs. Yerger)
Fifth Grade (Mrs. Gerancher and Mrs. Pierce)