Campus Visitors

Parents are invited and encouraged to volunteer at school and/or classes. Visits must be arranged with the classroom teacher or site administrator prior to a visit. All visitors must check into the main office to receive approval and a visitor’s badge. Visitors are to sign out at the end of the visit. All visitors must wear the badge and have it visible at all times. The school and principal or designee reserves the right for approval and denial of all visitors.

Parent volunteers during Mandarin Instructional time must be fluent in Mandarin in order to support instruction. Please work directly with the classroom teacher to schedule volunteer time. Non-Mandarin speaking parents can help in many ways to support a rich educational experience during the school day, weekends and after school. Reach out to the classroom teacher to learn more.

Parent and community volunteers must first complete the Volunteer Clearance requirements.

RCSD has a volunteer process for the safety and welfare of all of our students. To register to volunteer please complete the online registration:

https://www.rcsdk8.net/our-programs-and-services/human-resources/volunteer

Lunchtime Visitors

Student lunches can be dropped off at the front office. The office staff will contact the classroom teacher for the student pick up their lunch from the front office at the start of lunchtime. Dropping off lunches or forgotten items directly to the classroom or play yard is prohibited. All visitors MUST come to the front office.

We encourage parents to sign up to volunteer during lunchtime supervision. Please contact the office ahead of time if you would like to help out.

For the safety and privacy of all students, parents/visitors are not allowed to eat and be on the playground during lunchtime. Parents and volunteers that have signed up and had background checks are welcome to help supervise during lunch breaks.

Picking Up Students During the School Day

If you need to pick up your student prior to the end of the school day, please come to the office. Please do not go directly to the classroom to pick up your child. Parents must sign out their child, and sign in their child if returning to school. The office will call the classroom and have the child sent to the office or you will be directed to the appropriate room to personally retrieve them.

Dropping Off and Picking Up Students

Students may be dropped off in the morning by 8:05 a.m. and not anytime before unless supervised by a parent/guardian. Supervision will be provided at 8:05 a.m. in the new kindergarten playground, the big playground near the blacktop and the green picnic table area. Students are to be picked up after school in a timely manner (no later than 15 minutes after the end of school). Parents and students should prearrange who will be picking them up and the location to be picked up. Please make every effort to adhere to this policy since there is no supervision scheduled after school for students who are picked up late. Students must be picked up or in transit (walking, bike riding, etc.) Students on campus after 15 minutes of dismissal wait in the office until an assigned adult on the emergency arrive.

Dismissal: Please do not wait outside the classroom at dismissal, this can be distracting for students and interrupt the learning environment. Parents will be kindly asked to wait at the picnic tables if they forget this school rule.