Samuel Mickle School
Family Summer Updates - August 24, 2021
Hello Mickle School Families!
We hope you are finding time to enjoy the remainder of your summers! At Mickle, we have been busy preparing for the start of the new school year, and we eagerly look forward to students' return next Friday!
Summer Building Tours and Medication Drop-Off
Summer Self-Guided Tours
A reminder that parents and students may visit the school building, meet the school principal, meet the school counselor, and complete a self-guided tour on:
- Thursday, August 19th from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
- Tuesday, August 24th from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Please select a time that works best for your child's self-guided tour here.
Medication Drop-Off
Student medications and required medication administration documents may also be dropped off to the school nurse on these dates and and at these times.
Medication administration information and documents can be found here.
Please view a back to school letter from our school nurse, Mrs. Brown, by clicking here.
In accordance with Executive Order 251, all individuals must wear a mask while indoors in our school building.
First Day of School
The first day of school is a full day. School begins at 8:40 a.m. Students may begin entering the building at 8:25 a.m.
On the first day of school, our 3rd Grade students will proceed directly to the gym where they will be met by school staff to assist them in locating their homeroom teacher and classroom. Staff will guide and assist students in becoming familiar with arrival procedures and routines as they begin the year.
Teacher Assignments
Homeroom teacher assignments and student schedules will be available in the Realtime parent portal on Friday, August 27.
When you log-in to the portal, you will be asked to confirm your contact information and read some important documents before accessing your child's homeroom information. If you need assistance with your parent portal login, please contact the school’s main office at 856-423-0412.
As a reminder, the 2021-2022 portal is not open yet. If your student is new to the district this year, the portal will not be available until it opens for this school year until August 27, 2021.
Daily School Schedule
Mickle School Student Arrival and Dismissal
Arrival
- School begins at 8:40 a.m. Students may enter the building beginning at 8:25 a.m.
- If your child is absent, please notify the school's main office by 9:00 a.m. When your child returns to school, please send a note to be kept on file by the school nurse.
Bus Arrival
- Buses arrive in numbered bus lanes and bus riders will unload at approximately 8:25 a.m.
- School staff supervise students from the bus lanes to classrooms.
- No vehicles are permitted in the bus lanes.
- Please remind your child to follow all bus safety rules.
Bus Dismissal
- School staff supervisor students from the classrooms to the bus lanes.
- Bus departure begins at approximately 3:20 p.m.
- No vehicles are permitted in the bus lanes.
Arrival for Parent Drop-Off
- Students may be dropped off beginning at 8:25 a.m. School staff is not on duty to supervise students until 8:25 a.m.
- Please enter the car line in front of the school. Although the line can appear lengthy on inclement weather days, the line moves quickly.
- Parent Drop-Off students enter the school through the LGI door entrance. Please do not allow your child to exit the vehicle until the staff member on duty gives the signal to exit. This ensures that students will not be walking next to any moving vehicles.
- Please have your child exit the car from the right side closest to the curb, so students will exit directly onto the sidewalk.
- Please remain in your vehicle during drop-off. If you wish or need to escort your child to the school, please park in the main parking lot and use the crosswalk in order for your child to enter through the main entrance.
- Please do not drop-off your child inside the parking lot. Student are not permitted to cross the crosswalk without an adult. The car line should be utilized in order for students being dropped off to enter through the LGI door entrance.
Dismissal for Parent Pick-Up
- Student dismissal begins at 3:20 p.m. Parent pick-up students will be dismissed through the LGI door.
- If you are picking up your child prior to 3:20 p.m., please park in the parking lot and your child will be dismissed through the main entrance.
Arrival for Non-Transported Students
- Students may arrive at the school at 8:25 a.m. Please see that your child does not arrive prior to 8:25 a.m., as no staff will be on duty to supervise students or allow students into the school until 8:25 a.m.
- Non-transported students and bike riders enter the school through the gym door entrance.
- If your child is riding his or her bike to school, please complete and return the Bicycle Permission Slip on our school website. Your child will be provided with a Samuel Mickle bike permission removable tag to be placed on his or her bike.
Dismissal for Non-Transported Students and Bike Riders
- Non-transported students and bike riders will exit through the gym doors and travel up the sidewalk by the bus lanes. If you are waiting to meet your non-transported student, please wait at the top of the bus lanes.
- Mickle students that are meeting his or her sibling who is a student at Clark will travel up the sidewalk and meet the sibling at the designated grade-level location at Clark School.
- All students will be escorted across the crosswalk by our crossing guard.
Beyond the Bell
- Beyond the Bell will provide specific information regarding arrival and dismissal procedures. Please note that the location for Beyond the Bell drop-off and pick-up is the parking lot directly next to the Samuel Mickle School playground. This lot is for Beyond the Bell and staff only.
Summer Bicycle Safety Presentation
A student enrolled in the Samuel Mickle School (grades 3 to 6) may ride his or her bicycle to school with parent/guardian written permission. Students must participate in a bicycle safety orientation in order to receive their bike riding pass. The purpose of the orientation is to ensure students are aware of bicycle safety both on and off Samuel Mickle School’s campus. Students will tour the approved riding areas on campus and review practices for being a safe rider.
Parents and students are invited to join us either in-person or virtually on Google Meet for an early bird bicycle safety orientation.
- In-Person: Wednesday, September 1 (3:30-4:00pm)
- Virtual: Thursday, September 2 (3:30-4:00pm)
Please click here for the Google Meet link to attend virtually on September 2nd.
Students who attend the early bird summer orientation will have the benefit of being permitted to ride their bicycles to school on the first day of school. Students who cannot attend the summer orientation must attend a bicycle safety orientation during the first week of school before being able to ride their bicycles to school.
Health and Safety Measures
Masks
- Executive Order 251 mandates that all staff, students, and visitors must wear a mask while indoors in our school buildings. Masks will be worn indoors unless the individual meets one of the state's designated mask exemption criteria.
- Masks must be worn by all passengers on buses, regardless of vaccination status per the CDC’s Federal Order.
- Masks are not required when students are outdoors.
Physical Distancing
- Efforts and arrangements will be in place in order to maintain 3 feet physical distancing in classrooms and in the cafeteria.
Lunch and Recess
Students will eat together with grade-level peers each day at lunch. Students will be seated in order to maintain a distance of three feet at cafeteria tables.
Students will also enjoy recess with grade-level peers.
Each grade-level will have opposing lunch and recess times during the scheduled grade-level lunch/recess block in order to allow for greater physical distancing when eating. One-half of the grade-level will be having lunch while the other half will be having recess; students will switch from recess to lunch and vice versa.
Special Areas
- Students will return to Special Area rotation schedules for the 2021-2022 school year. Students will rotate through Art, Library, Music, World Language, and Physical Education (2 times weekly), during the Day 1 to Day 5 rotation. Homeroom teachers will provide Special Area schedules specific to your child's class in September.
Lunch/Cafeteria Services
Please view the 8/2/21 district letter regarding free meals for additional information.
Welcome New Mickle Staff
We also welcome several new staff members in their new roles at Mickle: Jennifer Aversa (BSI Teacher), Felisha Ingalls (Grade 6 Special Education Teacher), Jamie Burch (BSI Teacher), Tara Knell (Grade 6 Special Education Teacher), and Dana Kemner (District Teacher on Assignment)
Back to School Supply Lists
Summer Work Practice
These assignments are optional, as they are designed to help students maintain important skills that will be used during the 2021-2022 school year.
Back to School Night
2021-2022 School Calendar
A monthly paper calendar will be sent home with students on the first day of each month. The calendar lists important events and activities at Mickle School. This information can also be found on the school website and will be communicated through weekly "Mickle Minute" family newsletters.
Daily Dismissal Form
Regular Daily Dismissal Procedure
- The Daily Dismissal Form is used to provide the school with your plan regarding your child's regular dismissal routine
- Please be sure to complete our Daily Dismissal Procedure form by Friday, September 3, 2021 so that we know how you want your child to be dismissed each day. This information will be shared with teachers prior to the first day of school.
Change of Regular Dismissal Schedule
- A change of regular dismissal schedule means that your child would be going home in a manner different than what was indicated on the Daily Dismissal Procedure form above.
- If your child is regularly a bus, parent drop-off/pick-up, non-transported, bike rider, or Beyond the Bell student, and you have instructed them to be dismissed differently, please complete the "Change to Dismissal" form and send it in to your child's teacher. In this way, we can include the change in our Daily Dismissal Update so your child will be dismissed accurately.
- Any change in regular dismissal that is needed after the start of the school day should be called in to the school's main office by 1:00 p.m. on regular full school days and by 11:00 a.m. on early dismissal school days.
Samuel Mickle School
Website: https://www.eastgreenwich.k12.nj.us/Domain/9
Location: Samuel Mickle School, Kings Highway, Mickleton, NJ, USA
Phone: 856-423-0412
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EGHornets/