Procedures for drop off and pick up
It is very important to keep everyone, especially our learners, safe before and after school.
Dropping off your child before school
Gates open at 8:30am. No learner should be on the property before this time. Camp Australia provides Outside School Hours Care to supervise children from 7am.
If you use the drop off zone, your child will move to the Play Plaza (and their learning space) on their own. If you want to get out of the car, you should park your car in the carpark.
Once the bell rings at 8:35am, doors will open and everyone is welcome to move into learning spaces:
Prep learners should enter their learning space via the gate near Bethsaida (opposite the staff carpark). Preps who are dropped off and waiting under the Play Plaza can also move to their space via the path around Santiago and Zebedee (through the wooden gate).
Junior learners should enter their spaces via the external doors around the Play Plaza. The only learners who go inside via the door near Santiago (Resource Centre) are Junior Marrone.
Middle and Senior learners should enter their spaces via their external doors.
While you are welcome to wait with your own child near their learning space, no one should be inside a building or learning space until 8:35am.
Once the music starts playing at 8:43am, all learners must enter via Wominjeka (Office). This ensures they are accounted for when rolls are marked at 8:45am.
Learning spaces:
Prep - Bethsaida
Junior - Compostela & Bunjil
Middle - Penola, Zebedee and Salome
Senior - Camino and MacKillop
Picking your child up after school
The school day does not finish until the bell rings at 3:10pm.
If you need to pick your child up before this time, you must sign them out via Wominjeka.
Gates will open at 3:05pm for parents to enter the Play Plaza, meadow and outdoor spaces. This is the time to safely move to a spot outside your child's learning space.
The way that learners enter their learning spaces before school is the same way they exit when the bell rings.
At 3:10pm, the day ends:
Learners who are walking or riding home and leaving the property are escorted out to the Play Plaza and beyond by a teacher. 💡 Instead of coming inside the school property, you might find it more helpful and quicker to have your children walk out of the gate and meet you down the street.
Learners who are going to OSHC (Camp Australia) move to the Ray Centre as a learning community group.
Learners who are being picked up wait inside their learning space (or just outside if weather permits) for a parent or carer to arrive. Learners will not be permitted to collect siblings.
At 3:15pm, any learners who have not been picked up are taken to the Play Plaza. 💡 If you have to collect a number of children, it might be best to wait until 3:15pm to meet them all under the Play Plaza.
At 3:20pm, any learners who are still onsite are taken to Wominjeka (Office). You will need to come to the office door to collect them. Although you may be parked out the front, your child may be stopped from leaving until you are at the front door to collect them.