Preston Smith Elementary
July 30, 2020
Return to Learn
Arrival and Dismissal Procedures
The school building will open at 7:20 am and students will sit socially distanced outside their classrooms. The classrooms will open at 7:30 am.
- Teachers and morning hallway monitors will be available to assist students to the appropriate place each morning.
- Parents will not be allowed in the building at arrival, but will be met at each entrance by a Preston Smith staff member.
- Parents will screen students at home each morning for COVID-19 symptoms
PPCD: will enter at 7:30 am/dismiss at 3:00 pm through the Soar Exit on the west side
Pre-K: will enter through our PreK drive-through with their passes and be escorted to the classroom by staff; they will dismiss at 3:10 pm under the blue topKindergarten: Polk and Coke's students will enter/dismiss at 3:20 pm through the kinder exit; Winton, Lammons, and Warren's students will enter/dismiss at 3:20 pm through the front entrance
First Grade: will enter/dismiss at 3:25 pm through the southeast doors
Second Grade: Oliver and Askew's classes will enter/dismiss at 3:25 pm through the northwest doors; Popanz, Woods, and Homer's classes will enter/dismiss at 3:25 pm through the north doors
Third Grade: will enter/dismiss at 3:25 pm through the northwest doors
Fourth Grade: will enter/dismiss at 3:25 pm through the north middle doors
Fifth Grade: will enter/dismiss at 3:25 pm through the northeast doors; parents are encouraged to park on Chicago
Breakfast
- Breakfast will be delivered to classrooms each morning.
- All students will have access to free breakfast.
Students will utilize hand sanitizer and/or handwashing stations with soap and water in every classroom.
Student desks will be sanitized after breakfast.
Classroom
- Students will be seated as far apart as possible depending on room configuration, size, and type of seating - either desks or tables.
- Touchpoints throughout the building will be sanitized regularly, and all teachers will have disinfectant spray so that desks and other surfaces are cleaned frequently.
- Students will stay in their homeroom and teachers will rotate, including art and music.
- Students will take scheduled classroom restroom breaks.
- Water fountains will be closed, students will need a water bottle with their name on it.
Students will be assigned a Chromebook and charger (PreK/K- Ipad). They will take it home each evening and bring it back each day.
Shared lockers will not be used, student backpacks will be allowed.
PPE
- Masks will be required for students in the 4th and 5th grades and will be recommended for all other students.
- Lubbock ISD will provide each student with one reusable mask, and students are welcome to wear their own masks from home.
- Disposable masks will also be available as needed.
- All staff members will be required to wear masks throughout the day.
- Teachers in PreK - 2nd grade, and music will have access to clear masks for instruction.
Lunch
- PPCD and PreK will have lunch delivered to their classrooms and sit socially distanced.
- Kindergarten - Fifth Grade students will attend lunch in the cafeteria and students will be seated socially distanced at 50% capacity.
- For the time being, deliveries will not be allowed. Students will need to either bring their lunch in the morning or receive a tray in the cafeteria. In order to maintain social distancing, parents will not be able to eat with their students at this time.
- Students will have assigned seats, and floor spots will be used to encourage social distancing while going through the serving line and entering and exiting the cafeteria.
PE and Recess
- Students will continue to attend PE 4 times a week.
Whenever possible, physical education classes will be held outside to allow for maximum physical distance between students.
To the greatest extent possible, coaches will limit the use of physical education equipment and eliminate the use of equipment that would be passed between or shared by multiple students throughout a class period.
Students will attend recess each day. Students will stay with their homeroom class.
Playground equipment will be sanitized between uses.
Open House
- PreK through Kindergarten teachers will schedule individual 15 minutes meet and greets.
- First through Fifth Grade teachers will have a Virtual Open House through a Google Meets session on August 13th at 10:00 am and at 5:00 pm.
- Administrators will follow up with a Question & Answer Townhall Meeting on August 13th at 5:30 pm and August 14th at 10:00 am.
Preston Smith Elementary
Website: www.lubbockisd.org/smith
Location: 8707 Dover Avenue, Lubbock, TX, USA
Phone: 806-219-6800
Facebook: facebook.com/smith
Twitter: @smithstars1