The Gator Bite
Special Edition
Designated Pickup/Dropoff Areas
Good morning, Greenfield Family.
Now that the school year is underway and we have gotten settled in, I wanted to send a few tips, reminders and campus procedures that will help keep our Gators safe at arrival and dismissal. We appreciate working as a team together so students understand expectations and we use the same language at home and at school. If you use any of the following methods of pick up or drop off, please review and share this information with your family so we can all be on the same page going forward.
If you do not want to get out of your car: We get it-- life is busy! If mornings and afternoons for your family are go, go, go please use our parent pick up/drop off loop. This is an efficient and easy way to pull up to a curb where students are safely able to enter our back gate. In the morning, it is best for students first grade and up who are comfortable walking across the playground to their designated area for before-school recess, or for students with older siblings/buddies to escort them. In the afternoon, the line can look pretty daunting out on Elliot, but it moves very quickly once the students are outside. Our advice if you don't want to sit in that line is to actually leave your home around the time of the final bell. By the time you get here, the students will be outside and the line will be flowing smoothly. Your child's teacher will send home a placard for you to write your students' names on, and if you pop that onto your dashboard as you enter the line, we can get your Gators to you even more efficiently. Our final car usually picks up about 3:07, which is just about 12 minutes after school ends.
If you do want to get out of your car: If you want to extend that drop off time with an extra hug or your child loves to have you get out with them, Main Gate drop off and pick up is for you.
In the morning, please:
- Proceed to our new big and beautiful main parking lot, park your car and proceed to the designated crosswalk as you walk your child across the street at least as far as the sidewalk in front of the main gate.
- Note that the crosswalk has moved a bit further south, which is both safer students and better for driver visibility. We ask that you please use this crossing area to cross your child.
- Do not send students across these lanes without a parent or adult guardian accompanying them.
In the afternoon, please:
- Park your car and walk to the Main Gate driveway. Kindergarten and first grade students will be released to parents or siblings, while older students will walk out to meet you at the gate.
- Please use crosswalk to safely cross back to the parking area.
- We will not allow students to cross into the parking lot without an adult.
A second option that some families used when our parking lot was smaller was the Greenfield Road lot. In the morning, we ask that you walk your student to the main gate driveway from this parking area. In the afternoon, students are escorted to this parking lot by a teacher on duty.
We want to also remind everyone that Poinciana Road is not a designated pick up area. We want to keep our neighbors happy, and in the past this area became so congested, unsafe and unmanageable that residents went to the Gilbert Police Department and the Town to have it rezoned and we were asked to route car riders back onto our property. Police do occasionally patrol and ticket those in no parking zones as well. We use this gate as a convenience for our walkers and bike riders, and so if you love this area because of its quickness, and convenience, we suggest the Greenfield Road lot instead. Please help us stay friends with the Town, PD and our neighbors and keep the area safe for our walkers and bike riders by not picking up here.
One of the best things about Greenfield Elementary is our supportive community that cares collectively about all of our Gators. Thank you so much for helping ensure that all of our kids are safe and sound each day as they arrive and depart from our school.
Have a wonderful day!
Mrs. Mary Longnion
Greenfield Elementary Principal
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Greenfield Elementary
Email: greenfieldinfo@gilbertschools.net
Website: https://www.gilbertschools.net/greenfield
Location: 2550 East Elliot Road, Gilbert, AZ, USA
Phone: (480) 892-2801
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