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Priority – Enforcement of social distancing and mask wearing for arriving students. 

• All students and adults must be wearing a mask that covers the nose and mouth upon arriving at school.
• To ensure social distancing, we are asking that when possible, only students walk up to the building on grounds. Please practice with your child what it looks like to be 6 feet behind another person.
• Staff members will be present at 8:20 to guide your child to their entry door where a staff member will be ensuring all students social distance.
• If you walk your child to school, please say good-bye as you encounter the first Collins staff member and allow your child to walk the remainder of the way up to the building.
• Staff at your child’s entry door will direct students where to stand while they are waiting to enter the building.(Please note, your child should not arrive at school prior to 8:20.)

8:25-8:40 – Student Entry into the Building

Priority – Students entering the building will have his/her temperature checked at the door they are entering through.

·        All students should have their green symptom free verification card visible upon arrival to school. Students new to in person learning will receive one on 2/16/2021.

·        Bus riders will be met by a Collins staff member and then exit the bus and go straight to Door 1.

·        Students will enter assigned door and sanitize his/her hands upon entering.

·        Students will go directly to his/her classroom while remaining socially distanced from others.  All hallways have visual yellow and green markers indicating being 6 feet apart and will be monitored by adults.

·        Classroom teachers will stand at classroom doors to greet students and monitor social distancing in hallways.

·        Any child with a fever of 100.4 or higher will be escorted to an alternative “Care Room” and the parent will be called to pick his/her child up.

After 8:40 – All students enter through Door 1

Priority – Student temperature checked and receive tardy from office staff.

·        If a student comes after 8:40, the student will enter Door 1 after ringing the doorbell and getting a temperature check by an office staff member.

·        Student will then go straight to his/her classroom.

·        Any child arriving after 8:40, will be given a tardy slip to present to his/her teacher.

1st Dismissal – 2:50 p.m.

Priority – Dismissal of Kindergarten bus riders and Kindergarten Kasper students

• An adult will escort Kindergarten students to the busses and to Kasper in the gym.

2nd Dismissal – 2:55 – 3:00 p.m.

Priority – Staggered bus dismissal and Kasper students (1st-6th)

·        Each bus will be called one by one over the PA system in the order they have arrived.

·        Students will remain 6 feet apart from others and go straight to their bus exiting either Door 1 or Door 2.

·        Students will sit in their assigned seat one student per seat unless the child has a sibling.

3rd Dismissal – 2:58 – 3:00 p.m.

Priority – Dismissal of walkers

• After all bussers are loaded, a bell will ring at 2:58 indicating students on the first floor will be dismissed.
• At 3:00 a second bell will ring indicating students on the second floor will be dismissed.
• Teachers will lead their classrooms to their assigned exit door in order to monitor traffic flow in the hallways ensuring students are walking directly out of the building remaining 6 feet apart.
• Students being picked up will immediately head to his/her parent meeting spot or car.
• Students walking home with other students need to have a predetermined meeting spot on the outside of the building.
• Students meeting parents will need to have a predetermined meeting socially distanced from others, preferably off school grounds.  
• Staff will monitor traffic flow outside to ensure students are meeting siblings and/or parents at meeting location and leave school promptly.