McCarthy-Towne Elementary School

  Arrival at school:

All students will be asked to use specific entrances and exits, based on grade level.

Kindergarten and Grade 1

Students should walk around the side of the building and enter through individual classroom doors. Teachers will meet their students outside their rooms to welcome them.

• Kindergarten assistants will wait at the bus circle and gather all bus riders at designated areas (benches).  
• K teachers will meet drop-off students and escort them to the classroom.

Grade 2 and 3
Students will enter through the main lobby doors and use the center stairs to get to their classrooms 
Grades 4, and 5

Enter using the exterior door at the side of the building (to the left of the loading
dock area). 

• Grade 5 go directly to classrooms
• Grade 4 continue to 300 level and go to classrooms

Grade 6

• Rooms 214 and 215- main entrance
• Room 203- enter from loading dock doors closest to the classroom.
  

Walkers/ Bikers and Parent drop off: 

Use assigned grade-specific door.

* Masks must be worn by parents and students during drop off/ pick-up *
* Please form two lines in the parking lot to avoid backups on Charter Road.

Arrival/ dismissal plan 2021
Enter/ exit slides w/ pictures

Bike Safety:

In the interest of student safety on campus, we are asking that ALL bike riders, students and adults, walk their bikes on the sidewalks at all times on campus.  This includes entering and exiting the PDB "bus lane" on Charter Road and as students come around past the Administration Building and drop-off/ pick-up area. 
Please note that the bike racks have been relocated to support students in walking their bikes. -The rack from the front circle is now on the far edge of the Rt 111 playground, adjacent to the High School Commons fence. -The bike racks by the Administration Building are now closer to Charter Road, next to the stockade fence outside the Admin Building.
Gates/Douglas Preschool School Building Project update:
2019-Fall Handout v5F-10-7-19.pdf