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Extended Day Program Guide
PRESCHOOL
The program opens at 7:30 a.m. each day and closes promptly at 6:00 p.m. Preschool Extended Day provides a warm and caring environment with compelling arts and crafts projects; exploration and play in the yard; and manipulative games and activities the child chooses to engage in indoors. Before using the program, parents of preschool children should discuss their afternoon Extended Day requirements or changes with the classroom teacher.
In the morning, students must be signed in by their parents or caretakers (not siblings!). From 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., parents or caretakers should park legally and walk the child in to the Extended Day room. Children can be signed in during carpool from 8:30 to 9:05 when a staff member will accompany them into the Extended Day room.
The afternoon program begins at 3:00 with a circle time with singing and group games. Afternoon snack is provided. Students can participate in organized art activities, play in an indoor classroom with a complete array of preschool pastimes, or frolic in our expansive outdoor area where they can run, dig, build, and swing.
Parents should sign their child out each day by legibly indicating their name and the time they depart. Parents who are volunteering, or who attend committee meetings or conferences with teachers, are not charged a fee and should indicate “Meeting w/_________(fill in the blank)” on the sign-out sheet.
ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL
The program opens at 7:30 each day and closes promptly at 6:00. From 7:30-8:00 a.m. students congregate quietly in the library and must sign in with the teacher. From 8:00-8:30 students must sign in on the class sign-in sheet located near the front gate, and must stay in the yard after putting away personal items in their lockers or cubbies. An Extended Day fee is charged from 7:30-8:00, but no fee is charged from 8:00-8:30.
Any elementary student at school after 3:15, and any middle school student at school after 3:25 are in the Extended Day program. Students who know they are supposed to go to Extended Day, should sign in immediately after being released from class. Students who are not certain whether they are going to Extended Day, should go to carpool. Any student who has not been picked up by the end of carpool (3:15 for elementary, 3:25 for middle school) will be signed into Extended Day, and should be signed out when you pick them up.
Elementary and middle school students who attend Extended Day on a drop-in basis will be signed into a “default” activity such as Indoor/Outdoor Choice, or an art class. Fourth graders through 8th graders who drop in can also be signed into Homework.
Students who are regularly in Extended Day on certain days or daily should be registered online in advance for classes and activities. Listings are located on the website in the “Extended Day” section, or in the Parent Portal under “Families.” You and your child should peruse the offerings and then submit your class registration online. Once registered to a class, your child may not withdraw without your written permission or you registering them for a new class on that afternoon. Please note that all classes with additional Activity Fees have a trimester obligation. Your child may drop an Activity Fee class after the first meeting, with no financial obligation, but if your child attends the second class, you are responsible for payment for the entire trimester, whether or not your child attends each meeting (except days your child is on an overnight class trip – please email Rahna Brown at rbrown@sfschool.org with those dates).
Some classes, such as cooking classes and music classes, have a limited class size and will be removed from the online sign up once that limit is reached. Please do not sign up your child for special classes if they are staying only occasionally.
Students may not remain outside of the school gate after carpool. Students waiting for rides inside the gate should sign into Extended Day, and sign out when their ride has arrived. Please note that any student on campus at 3:30 must proceed to a class, and may not remain at the gate waiting for a ride. Students may use cell phones only during carpool, to finalize their afternoon transportation.
After 3:30, parents or caretakers should sign out the student on the computer in the library, just inside the front door.
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