Hello Alcova Community! With a new school year comes more fun opportunities for your falcon musicians! Auditions for the 4th and 5th grade chorus, the Alcova Singers, will take place from August 29th - September 2nd. Audition spots are limited, so please check out the link found below or scan the QR code on our flyer.

I hope to see your talented singers for the auditions in just a short time! Have a fantastic weekend.

- Mr. Holder

Alcova Singers Audition Sign-ups: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0e4ca8a92eaafdc52-2022

Thank you for your continued patience as we try to make our car rider line as efficient as possible given the volume of vehicles we have each day. I am working with GCPS Facilities, Planning, and Construction and the Department of Transportation. They designed our traffic pattern and will be tweaking it to find the best route.

Here are a few tidbits to help us in the meantime.

In the mornings:

• If you arrive to school early, your child must remain in their vehicle until 7:45 bell.
• Follow the traffic pattern
• Pull all the way forward before letting your child out of our vehicle
• Only turn right out of the driveway
• Do not remove barricades or cones
• Do not let your child out of the car in the parking lot or on the side of the road
• After 8:15am, please park and check your child in tardy at the front desk

In the afternoons:

• Pull all the way forward before stopping to let your child in your vehicle
• If you’re checking out your child, the cutoff time is 2:15pm but I would recommend earlier to prevent a delay getting out of the parking lot
• Do not remove barricades or cones

Additionally, I am trying to find a crossing guard to help our walkers cross the driveway to the nearby neighborhoods, but there is a shortage. I have also submitted a request to have a police officer to help direct traffic.

If you are willing to volunteer your time to assist our teachers in the parking lot, I encourage you to use this link to indicate your interest.

Again, thank you for adhering to the abovementioned.

Below is our traffic pattern- please review the BLUE arrows on the map for Alcova ES Parent Drop off and Pick Off Plan.

If you have a emergency transportation change request you must email 978.transportation@gcpsk12.org for the change to be processed. Please use this email only for "day of" emergency changes, where you were not able to send a note in with your student. Change request must be received no later than 1:30 pm to guarantee the change request will be processed.

It is hard to believe that it is time to start thinking about the holiday season. Please check out the flyer below from the Salvation Army if you are in need of a little assistance this year.