School Day

Student Arrival

For parents/guardians who wish to drive their children to school, please begin to arrive after 9:10 a.m. Students will not be permitted to enter the building until 9:20 in both the Primary Center & Intermediate Center. The drop off doors at both buildings (Everett Drive for the IC and the Right at School entrance for the PC)  will close at 9:35 a.m.  If arriving after 9:35 a.m. please use caution walking around to the main entrance as parents are not permitted on the sidewalk while students are being unloaded from the buses. 

Dismissal begins at 3:25 pm

If you are picking up your child from school, please call the office or email cewpickups@longwoodcsd by 3:00 p.m.  

Dismissal Locations:

• Primary Center East Side (Right at School) Entrance at the right side of the school
• Intermediate Center Cafeteria at the Everett Drive entrance

The school day ends at 3:25 p.m.  In order to maximize instruction, we ask that parents make every effort to schedule appointments and extra curricular activities at the conclusion of the school day.  Prior to 3:00 p.m. parents may go to the main entrance of the Intermediate Center and the Primary Center to pick up their child. Your child will be sent or escorted to the entrance of the building to meet you.  If you wish to have your child picked up by someone else, please include that individual’s name on the sign-out card. Photo ID will have to be presented every time anyone picks up a student from the building.

Pick Up Procedures After 3:00 p.m.
 

1. Please do not walk to the sidewalk or buses during dismissal to take your child home.  If you need to pick up your child, please come to the main entrance of the building to sign them out.
2. If you will be picking up children in both the Primary and Intermediate Centers, proceed to the Primary Center first.  Let the secretary know that you will be picking up students in the Intermediate Center also.  Those children will be sent to the Intermediate Center cafeteria at 3:20 to await your arrival.
3. If you know in advance that you will be signing your child out, send a note to the classroom teacher, call the main office or send an email informing staff that a student will be picked-up prior to 2:15 p.m.  Parent notes may be for multiple days.  
4. When you arrive to sign your child out, if there is no prior contact to the building, a school monitor will call your child’s classroom to notify the teacher to send the child down to sign-outs at dismissal time (3:20 p.m.).  Please wait on the line outside the Right at School entrance or the line outside the Everett Drive entrance.  
5. Here at Charles E. Walters, dismissal begins at 3:25.  Once this process begins, pulling students from the bus delays the timely dismissal of all students.  Consequently, when parents arrive at the school after 3:30 p.m. with no prior notification and no knowledge of their child’s bus route number, they may be asked to wait until their child is located.  If the buses have been loaded and are in the process of departing from the school, parents will be asked to go directly to their child’s bus stop to pick them up.
6. Please refrain from parking in any designated handicapped parking spots unless you have the appropriate parking permit that must be visibly hanging from your rear view mirror.

Parking
To facilitate the safe dismissal of students from 3:15-3:45 p.m., cars will not be permitted to park in parking lot in front of the Intermediate Center.
The circle in front of the Primary Center is a bus and emergency access lane; therefore, “No Parking” will be permitted in that area at any time. 
 

School Closings
In the event that inclement weather causes school closing, the district will notify parents through Parent Square and social media platforms.

Announcements will also be posted on the district website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and the following radio and television stations

Radio Stations:
Walk 97.5 FM/1370 AM
WBAB 102.3 FM
WBLI 106.1 FM

Television Station:
News 12 LI - Channel 12

Delayed Openings

Schedules on days with delays are as follows:

One hour delay - start time 10:25 a.m.
Two-hour delay - start time 11:25 a.m.

Emergency School Closings After The Start Of School
If emergency weather conditions or other emergencies develop during the school day, children will be dismissed early. Please be sure to create a plan with your child if you are not home.

Be sure to plan now, and appoint someone to meet your child at the bus stop in your absence.  Make sure both your child and your designee are both familiar with your plan.