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Hello 2024-2025 ELC Families!
ELC Program Hours are from 7:30am-5:30pm. We start the new 2024-2025 school year on Monday, August 12th, 2024. Hopefully you were able to come in and meet with your child's teachers at our Open House last night. If not, your child's teachers are very excited to meet you and your kiddos soon! In this newsletter, I will include several items, that were sent home in folders at the Open House. If you were not able to attend, those folders are waiting for you in your children's classrooms. I find that sometimes having digital copies of items are helpful as well. So please take a look at all the items included below.
Key Card Policy
Here at St. John’s we utilize a key card locking system for the main school hallway and ELC doors. Each ELC household will receive two key cards, labeled with your child’s (children’s) last name. These key cards will give each cardholder access to the entry doors during our ELC drop-off and pick-up windows. The drop-off window will be 7:30am-8:45am, and the pick-up window will be 3:15pm-5:30pm, Monday through Friday. During the drop-off and pick-up windows, your key cards will grant you entry into the main school hallway, the main ELC doors, and the main K-8 school hallway doors (leading out to the Preschool/Pre-K west playground).
If you want to come into the building outside of the drop-off and pick-up windows, you will need to ring the doorbell and an office employee or teacher will need to let you in. Additionally, if you are dropping your child off or picking up you child up between these time frames, you will be asked to wait in the main hallway, and the office employee or teacher will escort your child to or from his/her classroom, and retrieve the classroom’s attendance iPad for you to check your child in or out on the Tadpoles application.
Each household will receive two key cards. If your child has multiple households, please communicate directly with the ELC Director, to ensure that the appropriate number of cards is distributed per household. If one of your key cards becomes lost, someone in your household must contact the ELC Director, who will then fill out a Lost Key Card Form and submit that form to the Director of Operations. Upon submission of a Lost Key Card Form, the key card reported missing will be deactivated. A payment of $50.00 will be required, paid to St. John’s School & Early Learning Center via cash or check, in order to acquire a replacement.
When your child is no longer a student in the Early Learning Center, all key cards must be returned to the ELC Director. If you do not return your key cards, $50.00 per card will be charged to your Blackbaud Tuition account, and will be due by the next draft date. Unreturned key cards will be deactivated when your family leaves the program, and you will no longer have key card access to the building.
Before obtaining your key cards for your household, you must fill in and sign the following form, agreeing to our ELC Key Card Policy. Thank you for your cooperation in helping us maintain a safe and secure school for your children and their teachers.
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