HPS Important Information

 

 

 

HPS Important Information

 

Hayden Primary School

160 Brackin Lane, Hayden, AL  35079

205-647-2103  www.haydenhps.com

Bus Shop: 205-850-3001

 

 Student Pick-Up and Drop-Off

Traffic at Hayden Schools is quite intense, but please be patient! Your child’s safety is our first priority! The traffic does improve as the year progresses. 

 

Parent Drop-Off	7:45-8:00 a.m.
Buses Unload	7:45 a.m.
Classes Begin	8:00 a.m.
Parent Pick-Up	2:50-3:10 p.m.
Buses Leave HPS	3:10 p.m.

 

Student Drop-Off Procedure:

All parents must enter our campus from Bent Tree Drive (the road near the west end of our playground and Vera Vaughn Park that runs through the ballpark).  HPS parents may not enter our traffic lines directly from Highway 160. 

After entering Bent Tree Drive, proceed through the ballpark in the RIGHT lane.  Turn RIGHT onto the road that runs behind our school. 

* If you have an HPS child AND an HES child, you may use the MIDDLE lane on Bent Tree to drop off at HES FIRST, and then you may proceed around the loop to Hayden Primary to drop off your HPS child. 

* Parents who only have HPS students: Please be mindful of those cars that are making the loop from HES to drop off at HPS. Though some parents ARE breaking in line by using Highway 160 as an entrance, these parents are NOT breaking in line and should be permitted to merge into the HPS traffic. 

If you are the first to arrive, please form TWO lanes as you reach the back of our school, and proceed all the way around to the west end of our building. THREE lanes will be formed at the west end of the building. Place your car in PARK before allowing your child to exit your vehicle.

All students will exit their cars when the traffic monitors indicate that all cars are stopped.  Students should never leave their vehicles if the monitors are not there.  Please remember to remain in your vehicle until all cars in all traffic lanes have made a complete stop.  It is imperative that you check your surroundings (in front and behind) to ensure that all cars are completely stopped and all traffic lanes have been filled with cars before assisting your child in exiting the vehicle.

Students will proceed to a marked walking area or a sidewalk next to the building. Once inside the building, students will be directed to their classrooms by monitors.

When all vehicles have been unloaded and all students are safely in the walk areas, the traffic monitor will signal cars to move.  Please remember that the speed limit on a school campus is 5 mph. 

Please also remember that cell phone use of any kind during traffic is prohibited.

 

Additional Drop-Off Notes:

Students may not be dropped off at school before 7:45 a.m. 

Please do not park in the front or back of the building before 8:10 a.m. This will prevent the blocking of buses and faculty/staff parking.

Please avoid parking in the bus parking lot (near the football field) during the times listed above unless you need to enter the building.  If you need to enter the building,  please park your vehicle on the side of the parking lot closest to the field entrance gate.

Please remain in your vehicle if you are in a traffic line.

Please refrain from cell phone use of any kind during Student Drop-Off.

 

Parents of KINDERGARTENERS and parents of students NEW to HPS may walk their children to classrooms on Wednesday, August 7th (1st day of school). Please do not arrive before 8:10 a.m. This will ensure that our drop-off line can be completed and our buses can be cleared of our campus before you arrive and begin parking. Parking will be available behind  the school (after drop-off is complete) and in front of the school (if available). 

An older HPS sibling may walk a younger sibling to class during regular drop-off time.

IMPORTANT: If you arrive at HPS after drop-off time has ended (8:00), you must enter the school with your child through the front door and sign him/her in to school. If the west end gate is closed or being closed, you must drive around to the front of the building to check in your child to the front office. Do not release your child to enter the building with preschool students who enter after our drop-off time has finished. Preschool teachers have been instructed to send school-age students to a different door, and those doors are often already closed and locked. Please avoid the possibility of your child being locked out of the school by driving to the front of the building and checking him/her into the office.  

Student Pick-Up Procedure:

Afternoon Parent Pick-Up begins at 2:50 p.m.

All parents must enter our campus from Bent Tree Drive (the road near the west end of our playground and Vera Vaughn Park that runs through the ballpark).  

HPS parents may not enter our traffic lines directly from Highway 160. 

Please do not park along the access road in front of the football stadium parking lot or in the parking lot in order to pick up your child. All parents must pick up their children by entering the car line from Bent Tree Drive.

After entering Bent Tree Drive, proceed through the ballpark in the RIGHT lane.  Turn RIGHT onto the road that runs behind our school. 

* If you have an HPS child AND an HES child, you may use the MIDDLE lane on Bent Tree to pick up at HES FIRST, and then you may proceed around the loop to Hayden Primary to pick up your HPS child. 

* Parents who only have HPS students: Please be mindful of those cars that are making the loop from HES to pick up at HPS. Though some parents ARE breaking in line by using Highway 160 as an entrance, these parents are NOT breaking in line and should be permitted to merge into the HPS traffic. 

If you are the first to arrive, please wait in the designated area behind our school before proceeding to the west side of the building.  After the last P.E. class of the day has entered the building, a staff member will open the gate to allow you to begin the pick-up line at the west side of the building. As you move your vehicle to the west end of our building, please form THREE lanes for student pick-up.

In order to pick up your child, your vehicle must be located between the front awning (located where the sidewalk begins) and the back awning (located where the sidewalk ends). If your car is stopped behind the back awning, please do not exit your vehicle to pick up your child—wait until you are located between awnings.  This procedure is different from Student Drop-Off in the mornings.  We believe this creates a more efficient Student Pick-up procedure.

All classes will line up in designated spots on the sidewalk at the west end of the building.  Kindergarten will be located on the sidewalk at the west end of the building, 1st grade classes will be located at the picnic pavilion near the playground, and 2nd grade classes will be located on the sidewalk near the back awning and gym crosswalk. 

Until parents learn where each class is located, teachers will hold up signs to indicate their class’s location. Parents are encouraged to create signs with the child’s name and teacher to show the monitors and teachers so that he/she can direct the child to the parent more efficiently (a paper plate works well!). 

When the bell rings and classes are in place, please walk to your child’s area and tell the teacher who you are.  Take your child’s hand and walk immediately back to your vehicle.  Please refrain from engaging in conversations with other teachers and/or friends.

When all children and parents are loaded into their vehicles, the signal will be given by the traffic monitor to move your vehicle and proceed with the traffic line.

If you arrive at school after 3:10 p.m., please come to the front office to sign out your child.

 

When the Head Start and First Class Pre-K programs begin, those parents will have a different procedure for dropping off and picking up their children.  Please be aware that, in the afternoons only, preschool parents will be permitted to enter our campus from Highway 160 at 2:15 p.m.  HPS parents who are already waiting in the traffic lines that originate from Bent Tree Drive will continue to refrain from entering our campus (wait at the stop sign) until HPS school dismissal. Preschool parents and children will have exited our campus before HPS Student Pick-up begins.

During the first weeks of school, this process will take longer than usual.  Please be patient with us and remember that your child’s safety is our priority. 

Please refrain from cell phone use of any kind during Student Pick-Up

 

Breakfast, Lunch, and Snacks

Students will not be charged for BREAKFAST OR LUNCH during the 2024-2025 school year. The lunch price for visitors is $5 per person. 

The software system for accounting in the lunchroom uses your child’s picture rather than a number to identify them. 

Students who are eating breakfast will report to their classrooms to eat. Please review this with kindergartners particularly, and make sure that he/she knows if they are supposed to eat breakfast at school. We will also ask and guide them if needed.  Please make every effort to arrive at school in plenty of time for your child to eat breakfast. It is ideal for students to arrive before 7:55 in order to eat breakfast. If you know that you consistently arrive at school between 7:55 and 8:00, it would be more efficient for your child to eat breakfast at home so that he/she can report straight to class and not be counted tardy and miss instruction. 

Classroom teachers will provide information about classroom snack times and procedures. 

You can find the menu online by following these instructions:

Go to blountboe.net and click on the main Menu link at the top of the screen. Click Quick Links, then School Menus.  If you do not have access to the Internet you can request a printed copy from your child’s teacher.

 

 Travel Plans

Please make all after-school arrangements before the student arrives at school, and send any changes to the child’s teacher in a note in the red Teacher-Parent Communicator Folder. We prefer to not interrupt class to relay a message unless it is an extreme emergency. 

Any travel plan changes must be made in writing, signed, and dated. No verbal messages from students will be accepted.  In addition, travel plans may not be communicated by phone. 

Students arriving after 8:00 a.m. are considered tardy and must be accompanied to the office by an adult to sign them in to school.

 

Personal Items

Please consider providing a change of clothes (shirt, pants, and underwear) in your child’s backpack in cases of accidents and spills.

Please make sure that your child’s name is written on all of his/her personal school items. This includes coats, rain jackets, backpacks, nap mats, change purses, lunch boxes, and any extracurricular activity items. We hope this will help your child in keeping up with his/her belongings, and it will help us in returning lost items to their owners.

Send a note to your child’s teacher if he/she misplaces a personal item at school so that we can attempt to locate it for you.

We will accept donations of clean children’s underwear and elastic-waist pants to store in the nurse’s supplies for emergencies.

 

Attendance

Excuses for absences will be accepted by facsimile from a physician’s office. Faxed excuses may be sent to 205.543.1481. Parents and guardians will be solely responsible for obtaining notes from physicians for absences and sending those to school within the required time frame. Please consult the Blount County Student Handbook for the complete attendance policy.