Dear Kindergarten Parents,

Welcome to kindergarten 2024-2025!  We are very excited to welcome your kindergarteners to St. Hilary School!  You will soon receive much more information about all the exciting things your children will be doing this year, as well as other school and classroom procedures and policies.  Here, we want to share a few important things as we prepare to begin the school year.

OPENING SCHEDULE FOR KINDERGARTENERS

We will follow the schedule below as we welcome our Kindergarteners.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28 – Kindergarten students will arrive between 8:30 and 8:45 a.m., after our regular drop-off time.

This will allow time for saying goodbyes in a safe “hug zone” outside our main entrance before our Kindergarten team takes children to classrooms.  Look for your child’s teacher and teaching assistants indicating where each class should meet near the main entrance / Jesus statue.  Each class will be color coded and have a designated area to meet:

101 – Mrs. Sickels: Green, Meet in front of main entrance

104 – Mrs. Haskins: Blue, Meet in first row parking spaces to left of main entrance

105 – Miss Bennett: Red, Meet by large garage door to right of main entrance

If your Kindergartener will ride the bus to school during the first week of school, please email his/her teacher so arrangements can be made to assist your child in getting to the classroom.

ON AUGUST 28 ONLY, Rooms 101 and 104 will be dismissed from the Moorfield Road doors.  Room 105 will be dismissed from the doors by the Jesus statue.  There will be no buses to take kindergarten students home on these days and no Latchkey available for kindergarten students these afternoons.  Please be sure your child has a ride home.  The child’s name should be displayed prominently in the passenger window.  Please email the teacher if someone other than a parent will be picking up your child.

***Beginning THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, Kindergarteners will report at the same time
and follow the same procedures as all other students.
Please make sure your child has arrangements for lunch, a snack, a rest time towel,
and a ride home or Latchkey arrangements at dismissal time.***