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Pick-up and Drop-off Procedures
Welcome to McCarthy School!
MORNING DROP OFF Procedures
8:00am to 8:15am
The Parent Drop off and Pick Up entrance is located on Flagg Drive between Normandy Road and Warren Rd. We suggest that families dropping students off in the morning approach the McCarthy Drop Off entrance from the Oaks Road direction. THIS IS LIVE DROP OFF-Drivers need to stay in their vehicle at all times. There is NO VISITOR PARKING in this area. If you arrive after 8:15 am, please enter our visitor parking lot at the front of the school. STUDENTS ARE CONSIDERED LATE AFTER 8:15 and a parent must accompany them into the office.
As you approach our campus, please:
- Turn right into McCarthy School from Flagg Drive.
- SLOWLY proceed down the driveway in the marked lane, pulling up behind the car in front of you.
- Staff members will be present along the driveway to greet students beginning at 8 a.m. The earliest a child can be dropped off is 8 a.m. Please do not drop your student off if there aren’t any staff present.
- Queue up as directed along the school, staying behind the car in front of you. A staff member will assist your child out of the vehicle and into the building. Once your child has exited your vehicle, please stay in line, waiting for all children in the cars in front of you to disembark, before pulling out.
- Proceed to the end of the driveway, turn right, and exit onto Flagg Drive.
We appreciate your patience as we work to greet the students and get them into the building safely each day.
- If possible, please have your child in the back seat, on the driver side.
- Please keep children buckled until the vehicle is stopped and it is time to drop off.
- Please have your child ready to exit the car when staff approaches your vehicle.
- Please use tremendous caution when you pull away and are driving on our campus. We have walkers, visitors, busses, children and their families all trying to get safely to school.
**If you have business in the school between the hours of 8:00am and 8:15am, please park in the visitor’s parking area, located in front of our main entrance and walk in to the school with your child.
Afternoon Pick Up Procedures
2:30 pm to 2:45 pm
- Turn right into McCarthy School from Flagg Drive.
- SLOWLY proceed down the driveway in the marked lane, pulling up to the cone and/or car in front of you. Please pull all the way up and stay in your vehicle.
- A staff member will take the names of the driver and student in the queue. The students will be lined up inside the building and will come out in the order of the vehicles.
- PLEASE NOTE: All Drivers will be asked for identification. If someone other than a parent/guardian is picking up, please notify the office in advance.
- Our goal is to get all children out safely in about 15 minutes. Thank you for your patience.
- Please use tremendous caution when you pull away and are driving in our lots. We have walkers, visitors, busses, children and their families all trying to get home safely each afternoon.
Thank you very much for following these procedures for the safety of all the children at McCarthy School.
- If you prefer to come into the building, you must park in the visitor’s parking area, located in front of our main entrance. We ask parents/guardians to wait in our foyer and sign in. A staff member will dismiss students to their parents/guardians in the order in the order in which they arrived.
Dismissal Process
If you have not already, please send a note, email into your child's classroom teacher to confirm how your child goes home each day, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri.
If you need to CHANGE that typical dismissal plan, you MUST notify your child's classroom teacher by the start of the school day-send in a note or email before 8:00.
If there is day-of change to your child's typical routine, you MUST CALL THE MAIN OFFICE at 508-626-9161 BEFORE 2:00 PM. Your child will be dismissed in the manner we have on file if we do not hear from you before 2:00pm.
Families who pick up their child from the WALKER door or who have approved for their child to WALK ALONE from the walker door, please scroll below to read further changes to the WALKER DOOR dismissal process.
Thank you for your assistance as we continue to refine our dismissal process to ensure all students get where they need to be at the end of the day.
WALKERS & WALKER DOOR
Student Walkers who walk alone: Families who have approved for their child to walk home alone, please be on the lookout for an email requesting verification of that approval. We recognize that you may have verbally confirmed this previously but we are looking to get a quick and clear confirmation via email. Thank you!
Walker Door: If you choose to shift from the car/family pick up line to the walker door, please make those changes with advanced written notice to your child's classroom teacher. If you do arrive at the walker door pick up line and we do not have you on the list, it may increase the wait time.Walker Procedure: All adults picking up students from the walker door will line up in 2 lines at the cones that will be placed at the corner of the building. Once the school day ends and walker door staff arrive, they will remove cones to allow the lines to come forward to the walker door. This is essential to ensuring the safety and security of our students and staff. Thank you for your understanding!
*Please refer to the map below for a visual of walker door procedures. LOOK FOR THE GREEN