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1000 Books Club

If you have a student in Preschool or Kindergarten in Deerfield, your family is eligible to participate in the 1000 Books Club at DCS. The 1000 Books Club is a preschool and kindergarten reading program to introduce your child to high quality children's picture books. Bags of five books each can be checked out and taken home to read with children through a self-checkout program. Students receive a certificate of achievement and a free book for reaching reading milestones of 100 books, 250 books, 500 books. Students who manage to read all 1000 books receive a special gift.

An information form and registration form can be found at: http:// tiny.cc/8811v Feel free also to contact Ginna Schonwald, DCS SChool Librarian at vschonwald@sau53.org or 463-7422 x521 for more information.

The library is also looking for donations of high quality gently used preschool and kindergarten appropriate picture books that can be used to fill in this collection. Please contact Ginna Schonwald for more information.

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AFTER SCHOOL PICK-UP

The after school pick-up of students in the back of the building has been an ongoing concern at DCS for years. Efforts have been made to improve the process, but many of the SAFETY issues have not been resolved. In addition to the existing concerns, this year there has been a significant increase in the number of students being picked up after school. As a result, traffic is more congested and the space available for parking is maxed out. Winter (and snow) is right around the corner, which will only make these problems worse.

There has been a lot of discussion as to what can be done to improve the pick-up and make it SAFER for our students. After discussions with staff, parents and other schools, a new pick-up procedure was proposed to the School Board who gave it their blessing. The new pick-up procedures will go into effect Monday November 15th. The sole purpose of the new procedures is to improve the SAFETY of our students. There may be a few "kinks" that need to be worked out, so I ask for your patience as we do this together. On pg. 3 are the new procedures. They will not go into effect for another week. If you have any questions, talk to me when you pick your kids up next week or send me an e-mail . Throughout next week, the "permits" mentioned below will be handed out to the parents who currently pick their children up. There will also be additional information provided to preschool parents. - Andy Chouinard, Assistant Principal

Rolling Pick-up Procedure

Parents will be given 2 DCS Pick-up Permits to authorize the dismissal of DCS student to the care of an adult. The permit should be displayed in the front left dash of the car during pick-up time. The permit will take the place of the daily sign-out. Permits should be distributed by parents to the individuals who pick-up their children. If a person picking up a student does not have a pick-up permit, they will be required to complete a pick-up form before a student will be released.

Pick-up will occur in the back of the building in the same location as the morning drop-off. The space along the side walk is now designated as the drop off/pick-up zone and is marked with cones to designate that space.

Parents will line up on the right side of the road in the order they arrived beginning at the drop-off/pick-up zone.**Please be careful not to block the intersection where the busses exit.

Students will begin being dismissed from the back entrance at 2pm. Students will wait inside the building until those picking them up are in the pick-up zone.

A staff member will be on duty to provide direction to those picking up students. Another staff member will supervise each child to his/her car after all vehicles in the pick-up zone have completely stopped. When all cars have left the pick-up zone, the next set of cars will be directed to move up and so on until all students have been dismissed.

If a student is not present when his /her parent arrives, the parent will be asked to pull into a parking spot on the pavement (do not park in the dirt area) facing forward (do not back in) to wait.

A Note from the Deerfield Police Department: The State of NH has a new law in place regarding bike helmets. Any child under the age of 16 is now REQUIRED to wear a bike helmet when riding their bike. Remember, it is also school policy that any child on the school property with their bike must be wearing a helmet. It is our wish that every child be safe while riding bikes in our community. Thanks for your assistance in this matter