Bus Transportation

Children are expected to obey the bus safety rules as stated in Washington State Law. These rules are posted in each bus and are available at the school office upon request.

Please review these important bus safety rules with your child:

• Students must be seated and face forward at all times when the bus is moving.
  
• Students must use a quiet voice while on the school bus.
  
• Students must respect the rights and property of others.
  
• Students may not physically or verbally abuse any fellow passengers or the bus driver.
  
• Students are to act in a safe and responsible manner while waiting at the bus stop, riding the bus, and while getting on or off the bus.
  
• Students may not bring animals of any kind on the bus.
  
• In order to maintain safe driving conditions, the bus driver is given full responsibility and charge of the bus and the students.

Any child who wishes to ride a different bus to or from school or to get off at a different bus stop must have written request signed by his/her parents. Your child should give this note to the bus driver on the morning run and to the school office upon arriving at school for the afternoon run.

Walkers

If your child does not ride the bus to school, he/she should NOT arrive before 8:40A.M., when playground supervision begins. Each student is to leave the school grounds immediately following dismissal in the afternoon unless they are participating in extra curricular activities.

Any student who normally rides a bus and who wishes to walk home MUST have written permission from their parents.

Bicycles

Parents must decide whether or not their child may ride his/her bicycle to school. Some factors influencing such a decision might be:

• the degree of personal responsibility for bicycle and safety rules the student has developed;
  
• the distance between home and the school;
  
• the riding conditions;
  
• the amount of traffic along the route; and
  
• the weather conditions
  

A bicycle rack is provided at the school and any child riding his/her bicycle to school must park it in this bicycle rack. Bicycles must be walked on campus and parked in the bike rack immediately upon arrival and left there until school is dismissed. Any child riding a bicycle to school is responsible for his/her bicycle when left in the bicycle rack. To insure security each bicycle should be locked. Students riding bicycles to school are expected to wear a helmet.

Skateboards, Rollerblades, and Scooters

For the safety of all students, skateboards, rollerblades, and scooters are not allowed at school.

Parent Pick-up

When picking up your child, please park along "M" Street.   For obvious reasons, no child may go out to a car without an adult.  You must come into the school to pick up your child.  Buses are loaded and unloaded on "L" street.  For safety and congestion reasons we are asking you not to park on "L".  If you pick you child up please keep them with you.  Since after school activities are often in session, there may be students on the playground being supervised by school staff.  All students staying on campus are expected to follow normal school safety rules.  If you are watching your child playing on the playground equipment before or after school, please see that they also follow school rules for their personal safety.