Tambark Creek Arrival and Dismissal Procedures 2023-24
(During School hours which includes arrival and dismissal, there are no dogs allowed on the TCE campus unless you have a registered service dog.)
Rolling Drop Off and Pick up
• Drive up to the front of the school, stay in your car and have your child exit the right side of the car only.
• You must drop off where you are directed by the staff members wearing the safety vests (past the curve). They will motion you to pull all the way up in front of the school.
• DO NOT drop off your students off at any other location. They must be dropped off in the front as directed by the staff members with the safety vests.
• ALL kindergarten parents MUST park and walk their child up to the kinder corral. We will have signs indicating where you can stand and wait. We can’t have parents hovering around the kinder corral or having students running around on the grass hill near the corral.
• Please use the crosswalks when crossing from the parking lot to the front of the school.
• ALL 1st-5th grade students will be lined up in front next to a safety cone indicating their grade level. Students are required to wait in line, wait to be motioned to their car by the staff wearing the safety vests. DO NOT motion your child from your car. This is dangerous and not following our safety protocol.
• PICK UP Clarification: ALL students who are walking home with parents or siblings will be dismissed from the back of the school in the under covered area. They will NOT be in front of the school
• Parents who want to park and pick up their students MUST walk around the school to the back. Your child will be in a line in the under covered area NOT in the front of the school.
ATTENTION: The gate on the west side in the front of the school will be LOCKED during arrival, dismissal & throughout the day. There will be NO parent access. You will need to walk around to the east side of
the building to the under-cover area to pick up your child. This is a safety issue.
Arrival and Dismissal for Bussers
• All students riding the bus will be dropped off in the bus loop on the east side of the school and escorted by a staff member to the under-cover area. Those students will line up in the under-cover area by teacher.We will have cones with teacher signs.
• Parents may NOT drop off in the bus lane EVER. This is for buses only. Do NOT drop off your students on the east side of the building EVER. We have police officers monitoring this throughout the school year. It is a safety issue and must be strictly followed. No one is allowed to park in the fire lane area across from the play area. This area is marked with safety cones.
• Students riding the bus will be walked out to the under-cover area at dismissal by a teacher and distributed into their bus line. The bus lines will be marked with a cone and a large sign with the bus number. We line up the students with kindergartners in the front of the line, followed by 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders. Students can not play with
toys while waiting in the bus line. Each bus line is monitored and walked to the bus by staff members.
Arrival and Dismissal for walkers
• Students who walk to school will enter the school property either through the west gate off the field or through the back road by of 174th Street. Parents will not be allowed into the area and will be able to accompany students only up to the gates. Only exception is Kinder parents crossing towards the Kinder Corral.
• They will enter the under-cover area and line up by their teacher’s name  

• Students who walk home will be dismissed in the back of the school and escorted to the walker line in the under-cover area.
• Parents who drive to school will need to walk around to the back of the school to the under-cover area to pick them up.