School Hours

Teachers are on duty between 8.30am and 3.30pm each day.

Mornings: 

Children should not be on the playground unsupervised before 8.30am. If you need care before 8.30am, please utilise our before-hours-care offered by YMCA.

https://ymcacanberra.org.au/school-aged-care-programs/find-before-or-after-school-care/

1. From 8.30am, children can be dropped off on Murphy St or at the front drive-through or lower car park. Parents and Carers are welcome on the playground staying for the morning assemblies on Monday and Friday, or until children line up on the other days of the week.
2. All children should be at school by 8.55am to start the day with their class.
3. On the odd occasion your child arrives late, they must be signed in at the front office by their parent or carer.

Afternoons:

Teachers dismiss children from the classrooms.

YMCA will usually pick up children in Kinder and Year 1 from the classrooms. Older children walk directly to meet YMCA educators in the school hall.

Children make their way out of the building to our four supervised pick-up points and to the hall for After School Care. 

1. Murphy St Park and Pick Up. Please park facing uphill on Murphy St or in the adjacent streets. Parents and carers wait near the gate for the duty teacher to send your child to you. Children let the teacher know that they can see you. Children walking home, who need to cross Murphy St, must wait for the duty teacher to assist them. Please respect our neighbours by avoiding parking in their driveways, and walking through and littering their gardens.
2. Drive-Through off Hodgson Cres. Please drive down Hodgson Cres, turning left into the school to join the queue for drive-through. Students will exit the building and make their way to the shady area near the hall doors. The teachers on duty will assist your child to the car. A nametag in your windscreen is very helpful! Your child must be able to seat themselves without the driver leaving the car. Leave the carpark, making a left hand turn only onto Hodgson Cres.
3. Main car park off Hodgson Cres. Park in the carpark. Children are to wait at drive-through until you arrive. Come up to gather your child. Please be very careful of moving vehicles. Leave the car park making a left hand turn only onto Hodgson Cres.
4. Walking/riding across Hodgson Cres or Beasley St. Children meet the duty teacher at the bike cage or near the canteen. The group walks down to the main school crossing, with the teacher supervising crossing these busy roads.

Any child not collected by 3.30pm will be brought to the office. A phone call will be made to check what is holding you up.

Wet Weather Arrangements

Morning -

• If it is quite wet or actually raining in the morning, please drop your child to the hall from 8.30am.
• Children will put their bags in their class line, then join in quiet games or conversations with their friends. 

If your child is anxious with this change, please bring them up to the teacher on duty. We make alternative arrangements if the noisy hall overwhelms a child.

Afternoon -

Please discuss your family plans with your child, so that they are aware of wet weather arrangements. We ask families to take extra care in the rain. Don’t rush, we will keep your child dry and safe with us until you arrive.

• If the ground is wet, normal arrangements apply. 
• If it is actually raining the following safety arrangements will be in place:-

1. Drive-through or parking off Hodgson - students line up in the hall or at the main door with the duty teacher. We will assist your child your car as you drive around.
2. Murphy St Pick Up - students will meet the teacher in the shelter of the kinder courtyard. An extra teacher wearing an orange vest, will be outside the courtyard gate (further up the hill than the normal black gates). Parents can pull up to the kerb and we will help your child to come to your car.
3. Walkers/bus/bikes will operate as normal, with the teacher carrying an umbrella.
4. Parking - parents are invited to park and come to the kinder courtyard or awnings around the front of the school as normal. Please do not park and leave your car alongside the kindergarten kerb on Murphy St, as this is the wet-weather pickup area.