PES Special Edition: First Day Reminders and Updates
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Puster Families,

It was awesome to see all of you walking your children in this morning! Tomorrow and moving forward, we want all of our students to arrive as indicated on the form you completed at Meet the Teacher. We will not be allowing parents to walk students to classrooms. Special thank you to our PTO for sponsoring Tears and Cheers in the cafeteria. I do believe I saw more cheers than tears today. :)

We’re off to a great start! Students are practicing how to “do school” and enjoying some team-building fun with their classmates! As a reminder, we are asking for no volunteers or visitors these first two weeks of school. We want to get all of our procedures and routines down before we show-off for you.

I’ve included previous communication around arrival/dismissal below. Please remember that the gate off of Hart Rd. is an EXIT only. We will work on our signage to more clearly indicate this.

We are preparing to launch School Dismissal Manager next week. That gives us all of this week to work out any bugs and to enter the defaults you indicated on the form previously sent out. Again, your child’s teacher will continue to follow the dismissal indicated on your form during Meet the Teacher for this first week. 

Parents of Sloan Creek shuttle bus riders, please remember, all students will exit the bus and head to the Puster Courtyard to be picked up in carline. Siblings of kinder students will enter the building and go to the kinder classroom to await pickup in the front carline. We will not be allowing parents to park and pick up at the front of the building.

Finally, there may be some confusion around your child's bus number. We are giving students the number most visible on the side of the bus which is the route number. I've circled this number in the image below.

Thank you in advance for your continued patience! It’s going to get better every day! 

Puster Proud,
Holly 
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Arrival & Dismissal Procedures
Arrival
School begins at 7:55 a.m. Our doors will open at 7:30 a.m. Students will walk directly to their classrooms upon arrival.
Bus:Bus riders will unload in the front of Puster where adults will monitor unloading.

Kinder (and siblings/carpool): You will pull through the front driveway and students will enter the main entrance. Please stop at the cones to allow buses to pull forward into their unloading zone. Please do not pull around a bus that has their flashers on/stop sign out.
 
1st - 4th: You will pull through the back driveway. Students will enter the back entrance by the courtyard. 
Please do not get out of your car.

Walk/Bike with Adult: We will have adults and 4th graders on hand to help your child out of the car. Students walking or riding a bike from nearby neighborhoods must be accompanied by an adult to the back sidewalk.
Dismissal
School dismisses at 3:10 p.m.

Bus: Students will walk to their designated bus lines at 3:05. An adult will assist and account for all students and walk them out to their bus.

Sloan Creek Students:Students riding the shuttle from Sloan Creek will walk to the back carline for pick up. Students will not be allowed to be picked up in the front of the building.

Do not get out of your car for any reason. Always pull all the way forward. Help us keep our line moving. Thank you!
 
Front Carline: All Kinder students and their siblings. Car tag must be hung in review mirror. Siblings will be called to walk down to Kinder classrooms at 3:05. They will wait with siblings until car number is shown on Smart Board and walked out by an adult.
Back Carline: 1st - 4th-grade students. The car tag must be hung in the rearview mirror. Students will wait in classrooms until car numbers are called. They will exit the courtyard doors and wait for car to pull up near the awning.

Walk/Bike with Adult: Parents accompanying a walker/bike rider must pick up at the back carline near the awning. You will need your car tag number. We will enter the number and your child(ren) will meet you. You may not park your car on Hart Rd. or in nearby neighborhoods to walk over.
The number circled below is the number most visible on the side of the bus. This is the number we are sharing with students.
You may still order supply packs at an increased price to be delivered to your home by following this link: 2021-2022 Supply Packs Add the Puster School ID PUS011
Helpful Resources
Important! If you have used SDM previously, you will need to uninstall the app and reinstall using this link. All parents will download the new SDM app from this link.

Puster Families,

Welcome to School Dismissal Manager! Using School Dismissal Manager with your desktop or smartphone browser, you can quickly and easily update instructions when your child's dismissal needs to be changed. School Dismissal Manager notifies the school of your updates so that, effective August 23rd, it is no longer necessary for you to phone the school, send notes, or send an email to inform the school of dismissal changes. School Dismissal Manager will provide us with a more organized and efficient tracking system for afternoon dismissals.

The easy-to-use mobile and desktop interface will allow you to make these changes in advance or for the current day. At Puster, we want you to utilize School Dismissal Manager to indicate a change in your child's default dismissal plan and to let us know if you are checking your child out early. Free apps are also available for Android and iPhone users.

Our office will set the ''default'' dismissal for your child, which is their routine dismissal and is based on the information you provided in the Google Form.

To login, you will use the first e-mail listed under contacts in PowerSchool. Then click "forgot password" to set your password. 

Thank you for using this tool to help us keep the dismissal process safe and orderly for all our students. Please contact Patty Flint (patty_flint@lovejoyisd.net) if you have any questions or concerns.